During his daily COVID-19 briefing, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Thursday said, as part of his return to school plan, that the state is recommending all public school students third-grade and up to wear a mask in class each day. All teachers and school support staff also would be required to wear a ...
CHARLESTON - As cases of the coronavirus spike across the country and in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday he is seriously considering mandating face masks and covering in buildings. "I am very seriously considering that at the beginning of next week we may very well have to go to ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s lone Democratic U.S. Senator took to the airwaves Tuesday to express his frustrations with Gov. Jim Justice, what he calls the slow pace of distributing funding to local governments and a plan to use coronavirus relief funds for highway projects. Sen. Joe Manchin was a guest Tuesday afternoon on the Fox News Channel’s “Your World” with host Neil Cavuto. At the end of the interview, Cavuto asked Manchin to comment on a plan unveiled last Friday by Justice on use of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. “My state has been ...
WHEELING – After Wheeling’s beloved annual Fourth of July concert at Heritage Port was canceled in late May in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, there were concerns that local communities would have no way to celebrate the holiday together. However, residents of the Ohio Valley will ...
WASHINGTON, Pa. – Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine issued an order Wednesday requiring residents to wear masks, with exception, when leaving their homes as COVID-19 cases are on the rise, especially in Allegheny County. The order requires mask wearing indoors where the public is generally invited, including workplaces, the order states. “This mask-wearing order is essential to stopping the recent increase in COVID-19 cases we have seen in Pennsylvania,” Gov. Tom Wolf said. “Those hot spots can be traced to situations where Pennsylvanians were not wearing masks or ...
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department announced it had received confirmation of three new positive COVID-19 cases in the county. Two more positive cases came Wednesday morning, bringing the county's cumulative total of positives to 95 since the start of the ...
