COLUMBUS — The number of coronavirus cases per capita in Ohio continues to fall, although at a pace that could still take weeks to reach the level needed to end health orders in the state, according to state data. Those orders will be lifted once the state hits the mark of 50 coronavirus ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf will expand more business and event capacity limits and lift a raft of long-standing coronavirus restrictions on bar service in Pennsylvania starting on Easter Sunday, giving some relief to one of the hardest-hit business sectors, his administration said ...
STEUBENVILLE — Jefferson County’s anticipated share of the COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress on Wednesday will be approximately $12 million, Commissioner Thomas Graham announced at the start of Thursday’s meeting. It was noted that while the county had learned about the amount ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the possibility of beginning to “mark our independence from this ...
Municipalities as big as Charleston and as small as Capon Bridge — along with all 55 West Virginia counties — will receive a cut of the $4 billion in direct funding that the American Rescue Plan is sending to the Mountain State. It’s a dollar figure that Sen. Joe Manchin believes will be a financial shot in the arm to every corner of West Virginia. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the COVID-19 relief bill Wednesday, and President Joe Biden signed it Thursday. Manchin discussed the funds coming to West Virginia with dozens of county and municipal leaders Wednesday ...
According to information provided by the office of Sen. Joe Manchin, local counties and municipalities are set to receive funding from the new COVID relief legislation, including: • Brooke County: $4.25 million • Hancock County: $5.59 million • Beech Bottom: $200,000 • Bethany: $330,000 • Chester: $990,000 • Follansbee: $1.13 million • New Cumberland: $420,000 • Weirton: $10.59 million • Wellsburg: $1.05 million • Windsor Heights: $160,000 This is a portion of the $677 million in direct funding set for West Virginia’s local governments. Funds can be used ...
