CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday morning that West Virginia will start vaccinating residents age 70 and up starting Wednesday, with the hopes of lowering the age for vaccinations to 65 sometime next week. The state has been extremely active in vaccinating residents age 80 ...
CHARLESTON - Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday a plan to get West Virginia's K-12 students back into schools even as the state's school re-entry map is mostly red and orange. During his Wednesday coronavirus briefing, his last of 2020, Justice said all West Virginia elementary and middle ...
CHARLESTON - State officials in charge of COVID-19 vaccine distribution were told Thursday night that West Virginia's allotment of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine could be as much as 45 percent less than originally promised. "Hiccups are not really permissible when people are dying in my world," ...
Pennsylvania is temporarily halting school sports and other extracurricular activities, ordering gyms, theaters and casinos to close and banning indoor dining at restaurants as state officials respond to the worsening pandemic with new restrictions. A day after announcing his own COVID-19 ...
West Virginia University's 2020 football season started with hope. It will end with a canceled game. WVU announced Thursday afternoon that its scheduled Saturday game vs. Oklahoma at Milan Puskar Stadium had been canceled. The game was called off after WVU was forced to suspend all team ...
CHARLESTON — Succumbing to pressure and the growing numbers of COVID-19 cases in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice Friday announced several executive orders to help slow the spread of the virus, including a tighter mask requirement. "You have to realize that we are the oldest state, the state ...
