FAIRMONT – Leadership Marion devoted its monthly visit to an area business to look at WVU Medicine's Fairmont Medical Center Thursday morning. The group, through the Marion Chamber of Commerce, visits sites across the county to to raise awareness and generate community involvement said ...
MORGANTOWN – William Ihlenfeld, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, has been elected to chair the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Executive Board. HIDTA is composed of drug task forces from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia is seeking CDC permission to offer a second Pfizer booster shot to certain residents, Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday. The second booster — also called a fourth shot — would be for those age 50 and up, for the immunocompromised and for essential workers, he ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice took a slightly different twist in his Tuesday COVID briefing, addressing the burnout and seeming complacence among the populace even as a delta-omicron surge grows. “Are we just numb to this?” he asked. “We should not accept that this is just not good ...
MORGANTOWN – The FDA took three steps Monday to make Pfizer COVID vaccine boosters more widely available. It expanded the booster age to include children ages 12-15. It reduced the wait time for a booster – for age 12 and up – from six months to five months. And for immunocompromised ...
Gov. Jim Justice and his advisers held the last COVID-19 press conference of 2021 Thursday morning, presenting a concerning outlook for the Mountain State entering 2022, with both omicron and delta poised to surge. “We are getting ready to see the storm come to West Virginia as it has ...
