State Officials Announce Additional Criteria For School Re-entry Metrics

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice and state health and education officials detailed Friday additional tweaks to the metrics behind the color-coded map that determines if schools can re-open while also increasing COVID-19 testing opportunities to bring infection numbers down. The daily County ...

Judge Throws Out Cases Challenging School Re-entry Metrics

CHARLESTON — In the first legal test of Gov. Jim Justice’s state of emergency powers, a Kanawha County court rejected a parent’s lawsuit challenging the state’s ability to close down in-person learning using metrics and a color-code system to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman ruled Friday morning in favor of a motion by attorneys for Justice, the Board of Education and the Department of Health and Human Resources to dismiss the case brought by Charleston attorney and parent Alex McLaughlin. Kaufman also denied a motion for a ...

CHARLESTON — The state makes COVID-19 infection data available for deaths, hospitalizations, long-term care facilities, and correctional facilities, but some are wondering why neither the Department of Education nor the Department of Health and Human Resources makes data publicly available ...

Perdue: State Doing Financially Well During Pandemic

WHEELING — West Virginia Treasurer John Perdue says the state’s finances continue to do well during the COVID-19 pandemic, but his office is struggling to get out financial education to the state’s school children. Perdue, who is seeking re-election to his seventh term in office, ...

Ohio County Business Owners Tell Their Pandemic Tale

WHEELING — They’ve struggled to stay in business during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now they have filed legal action against state orders financially affecting their business. Several Wheeling businesses last week filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West ...

Free COVID-19 Testing Clinic Held Monday at The Highlands

WHEELING — The Ohio County Health Department conducted a one-day COVID-19 drive-through testing clinic at The Highlands on Monday as coronavirus cases in the county are on the rise. The clinic was in response to a recent state mandate calling for additional testing when a county’s numbers ...