Cabell County

The West Virginia Board of Education announced this week that Brian Casto of Cabell County is the 2022 West Virginia Teacher of the Year.

On this West Virginia Morning, while officials from Cabell County argue in court that three drug distributors owe the county and the City of Huntington $2 billion, Wood County is moving to restrict treatment care facilities.

On this West Virginia Morning, Kanawha County and the city of Charleston are experiencing the most troubling HIV outbreak in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, in this show, the city of Huntington is leading a wellness program for first responders, and in Harlan County, Kentucky, an ensemble called Higher Ground decided to make a play about 2020.

An interim police chief has been named in Huntington, West Virginia.

On this West Virginia Morning, we have a conversation with the 2021 West Virginia State Champion in the Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition. Notre Dame High School Senior Ben Long from Clarksburg is one of nine national finalists. Also, we take a look at vaccine rates, and we learn about a litter waste pickup program in Berkeley County.

Brian Casto has taught an eighth-grade West Virginia Studies class at Milton Middle School for the past four years, but has recently ventured down unfamiliar roads in order to spark his students’ curiosity about the Mountain State’s rich history through a series of animated lessons on his YouTube channel titled “West Virginia History in Two Minutes or Less.”

On this West Virginia Morning, we have the latest on a former nursing assistant who admitted to murdering veterans at a Clarksburg hospital, and we have a report on the status of West Virginia’s medical cannabis program. Also, the City of Huntington and Cabell County are suing prescription opioid distributors in federal court. If the city and county win their lawsuit, that could result in a payout of tens of millions of dollars.

Data from 2020 show 75 instances where people who were approved by the county court system for involuntary commitment weren’t picked up by sheriff’s deputies. The sheriff says his department is overwhelmed.

On May 21, 1864, Confederate General and former Congressman Albert Gallatin Jenkins was killed at the Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain, Virginia. He was 33.As a…

Updated Thursday, May 21 at 10:30 a.m.The West Virginia National Guard will begin its second round of free, drive-thru and walk-up testing, to reach…