By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Growing numbers of U.S. colleges are pledging to reopen this fall, with dramatic changes to campus life to keep the coronavirus at bay. Big lectures will be a thing of the past. Dorms will will be nowhere near capacity. Students will face mandatory virus ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Almost 5,000 West Virginians filed for unemployment benefits last week amid the coronavirus pandemic shutdowns, according to federal data released Thursday. The new applications come as nearly 39 million Americans have sought ...
HUTTONSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — At least six people from the Huttonsville Correctional Center have now tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Thursday. Figures released by the state show four staffers and two inmates of the Randolph County prison have the virus. Officials said the ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice unveiled an aggressive plan Monday to reopen the state's economy while loosening coronavirus testing benchmarks without explanation. The Republican is moving to lift restrictions if the state's ...
KENOVA, W.Va. (AP) — While Americans have learned how to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic, some employees at one West Virginia production plant have been living at work for almost a month. More than 40 employees at Braskem America's facility near Kenova have volunteered to be ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — One man died and another was injured Monday morning when they became trapped under a dump truck, officials said. Rescue crews were called to Jimmy Dunn Excavating in Charleston around 8 a.m., officials told news outlets. One man died at the scene and another man was ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall University is set to hold a virtual graduation ceremony for its medical students, the college said on Monday. Graduating students at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will have their ceremony online Friday. It will feature recorded ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Humanities Council has begun releasing some content on the internet to address disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic. In March, self-recorded videos of some published poets from around West Virginia were posted in "Poetry During a Time of ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An infant in West Virginia has tested positive for the coronavirus as the state's caseload continues to grow, officials said Wednesday. At least 963 people have the virus after nearly 27,000 tests, state health officials said. ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman is suing the federal government over the 2018 death of her husband from a wrongful insulin injection at a West Virginia veterans hospital. Norma Shaw's lawsuit is the second one filed against Veteran Affairs Secretary Robert ...
