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Wood County woman among new West Virginia COVID deaths

CHARLESTON — A 54-year-old woman from Wood County is among the deaths confirmed in the last week from the COVID-19 coronavirus, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources reported Wednesday in its weekly virus update. Four more deaths have been confirmed since last week’s report, the department said. In addition to the Wood County woman, the department has confirmed the the deaths of a 72-year-old woman in Nicholas County, an 84-year-old man from Summers County and a 97-year old man from Kanawha County. The death toll from the virus since the pandemic started more ...

Officials: COVID claims five more West Virginians

CHARLESTON — Five people have died in West Virginia from the COVID-19 coronavirus in the last week, the Department of Health and Human Resources said Wednesday. The death toll is 8,136 residents since the pandemic started more than three years ago. Deaths confirmed were a 69-year-old man from Ohio County, a 64-year-old woman from Harrison County, a 74-year-old man from Monongalia County, an 81-year-old woman from Lincoln County and a 77-year old woman from Raleigh County. Updates are provided once a week. The federal pandemic emergency ended on May 11.

Major general from COVID task force to speak in Parkersburg

PARKERSBURG — A retired major general in the U.S. Army will speak at the Celebration of Veterans co-hosted by Jan Dils, Attorneys at Law and ELPRO Services Inc. at 7 p.m. June 14 at the Parkersburg High School auditorium. Christopher J. Sharpsten will speak about his experiences during the ...

Former Wood County residents receive probation for COVID benefits fraud

CHARLESTON — A former Washington, W.Va., man and wife who now live in Missouri were sentenced for unlawfully obtaining COVID-19 jobless benefits. Robert Notgrass, 51, and Rhonda Notgrass, 46, of St. Charles, Mo., were each sentenced to five years of federal probation on Thursday in U.S. ...

West Virginia officials report six new COVID deaths

CHARLESTON — Six deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus were recorded in the past week in West Virginia, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported on Wednesday. The additional deaths raise the state’s count to 8,131 residents since the pandemic began more than three years ago. Confirmed deaths were a 72-year-old woman from Mercer County, an 82-year-old woman from Kanawha County, a 90-year-old woman from Brooke County, a 66-year-old man from McDowell County, a 64-year-old woman from Putnam County and a 76-year-old man from Raleigh County. Updates are provided weekly on ...

West Virginia officials report eight more COVID deaths

CHARLESTON — Eight people were confirmed as deaths from the COVID-19 virus in the past week in West Virginia, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported Wednesday. The death toll since the pandemic began more than three years ago is 8,125 in West Virginia, the department said in its weekly update. Updates were changed from daily to weekly with the expiration of the pandemic health emergencies, which end on Thursday. The state has confirmed the deaths of a 77-year-old man from McDowell County, a 76-year-old woman from Barbour County, an 89-year-old woman from Brooke County, ...