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The Lawrence County Health Department says scammers claiming to be associated with them are calling senior citizens across the county.

Two people have been arrested on drug possession charges in Ironton.

Thomas Health implemented a no-visitor policy back in September, citing rising COVID-19 cases.

These are for residents in West Virginia who are 65 years of age and older.

He made the announcement on Monday during a press conference.

Troopers said an 8-year-old child was ejected from the car and pronounced dead on the scene.

Two new officers were sworn in to serve on the Portsmouth Police Department Monday morning.

Troopers said Austin H. Matthews, 24, from Sandy Hook, died in that crash near Rattlesnake Ridge.

On Monday, the Greenup Fiscal Court accepted a $3 million bid from King’s Daughters Medical Center to purchase the Bellefonte Pavilion.

The COVID-19 vaccine is now available for those ages 75 and older as of Monday.

It went live Monday morning at 8 a.m.

It happened Sunday morning around 8:47 in the 7000 block of Sissonville Drive.

The grant for the Northeast Kentucky Regional Industrial Authority in Grayson is to build a 65,000 square foot metal building on a build-ready site at East park Industrial Center.

It happened just before 7 p.m. on Saturday along Route 331.

According to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR), as of January 25, 2021, there have been 1,842,725 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 115,839 total cases and 1,899 total deaths.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says they will be holding it at South Eastern Beauty Academy starting at 9:30 a.m.

Rescue worker said the dogs did not have access to clean water.

Police are asking for assistance in trying to identify the subject.

Dispatchers say traffic is being diverted to U.S. Route 60.

DHHR says 555 more tests have come back positive.

Responders found a vehicle upside down in a creek.

Health officials said with the amount of volunteers the clinic was made possible.

Melange Cafe received a big boost Saturday.

WSAZ took some of your questions to local and state health experts when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine.

It will be located on a five-acre lot, just past the new Hurricane Bridge Park on Midland Trail.

People 70 and older who’d been expecting to have a chance to sign up for the vaccine in Lawrence County found out Friday they’ll have to continue to wait.

With some students falling behind to the point of potentially not graduating on time, Cabell Midland introduced a new program to help.

Kentucky’s death toll has risen to 3,337 people, who were memorialized Friday afternoon during a flag ceremony on the Capitol grounds in Frankfort.

The incident was reported around 6:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Adams Avenue.

West Virginia plans to vaccinate 12,000 frontline workers on Friday and Saturday.