West Virginia's Catholic schools will return next month with a five-day, in-person plan, Superintendent Mary Ann Deschaine announced Monday. In a letter to families, she outlined how the Diocesan school administration "has been focused on implementing the recommendations and guidelines from ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice again last week defended his stewardship of more than $1.25 billion meant to help state and local governments with expenses from the coronavirus pandemic. Justice, joined Friday by Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce at his pandemic briefing, praised a report from the ...
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers reported progress on a huge coronavirus relief bill Saturday, as political pressure mounts to restore an expired $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit and send funding to help schools reopen. "This was the longest ...
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Alcohol sales will be banned after 10 p.m. Friday under an executive order issued by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to help slow the spread of the coronavirus by limiting close gatherings. The order also prohibits the consumption of ...
CHARLESTON - West Virginia Friday ended the week with the most COVID-19 deaths since the middle of April, along with record numbers of new cases and hospitalizations. According to the Department of Health and Human Resources, 13 people have died from infections of the novel coronavirus. One ...
WHEELING - A fourth person in Ohio County has died from complications of COVID-19, capping a month in which a surge of new coronavirus cases hit the county. The 49-year-old woman, whose identity was not released, died Thursday while being treated at an area hospital, Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department Administrator Howard Gamble said. She was the third person in the county to die from COVID-19 in July as the total number of new coronavirus cases nearly tripled last month. The first death was reported in the county April 13. July has seen an explosion of new COVID-19 cases with 161 ...
