radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 07-21-26

Good morning.A four-year-old boy is recovering at Ruby Memorial Hospital following a near-drowning incident at the Southwood Park pool. Parkersburg Police confirm that alert lifeguards quickly pulled the unresponsive child from the water and successfully performed C-P-R until emergency medical crews arrived on the scene. Parkersburg Mayor Tom Joyce praised the staff for their rapid, life-saving response.Health officials are warning local consumers about a massive, multi-state parasite outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce. The C-D-C issued an urgent advisory after tracking thousands of severe illness cases, confirming shredded iceberg lettuce served at regional Taco Bell locations is a primary source of the infection.And Huntington city leaders are facing a major A-C-L-U privacy lawsuit after passing a controversial two-point-one-million-dollar vehicle surveillance network.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.