By FREIDA FRISARO and DAVID CRARY Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they're unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, as officials laid out new details of what lies ahead ...
CHARLESTON — Regardless if he wants or doesn’t want a special session, Gov. Jim Justice might be forced to call one if the West Virginia Legislature meets the threshold to call itself into special session to deal with the $1.25 billion in federal coronavirus relief dollars. Since the ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Marshall County has seen more than 20 positive cases of COVID-19 cases in the last week, and officials are saying the rise in cases isn’t due to more frequent testing — people are getting sick faster. Threat Preparedness Director Mark Ackermann has been sending out notices tracking the near-daily climb in numbers of COVID-19 patients, some days seeing half a dozen new cases being followed by the county. Ackermann said that the spike in cases was due to people going out either to travel or to party, and bringing the coronavirus home with them. “That was not mass ...
GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America have postponed next year's National Jamboree in West Virginia, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The increasing number of cases and the pandemic's persistence and unpredictability made it impossible for the Boy Scouts to ...
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department said Thursday it had been notified of 14 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the county. Currently, the health department reports a total of 172 positive cases, including three deaths. Case surveillance contact tracing and monitoring continues for many ...
WHEELING — Several city leaders in Wheeling who were tested for COVID-19 last week — after a fellow councilman had tested positive for the novel coronavirus — are seeing results come back as negative. Mayor Glenn Elliott and a number of other city officials who had come into close ...
