radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for July 13, 2026

Good afternoon.Federal court documents unsealed in Washington reveal that a twenty-one-year-old West Virginia man has been indicted as the eighth suspect in a foiled domestic terror plot targeting a high-profile white house event last month. The Justice Department reports that Chandler Scaggs was arrested for allegedly conspiring to act as a sniper in a coordinated drone attack plan. Scaggs, along with seven other co-conspirators, faces severe federal charges including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder a federal government official.In state government news, long-time West Virginia Tourism Secretary Chelsea Ruby has announced she will step down at the end of the month. Governor Patrick Morrisey confirmed her upcoming departure, thanking Ruby for her decade of leadership across two consecutive gubernatorial administrations. Curtis Capehart will assume the role of acting tourism secretary on August first to ensure a smooth administrative transition.Meanwhile, dozens of major telecom infrastructure projects are rapidly wrapping up across the mountain state. State officials confirm that thirty-six separate broadband expansion projects funded by the American Rescue Plan Act are currently under active construction, with seven completely nearing completion this week to bring high-speed internet access to over forty-two-thousand unserved rural homes.Down in Winifrede, local emergency crews are celebrating a major milestone today as firefighters officially break ground on a new three-million-dollar Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department substation. The state-of-the-art facility is being funded primarily through federal disaster relief grants to replace the former station that was completely destroyed during the catastrophic August twenty-twenty-three flash floods.A grim new financial healthcare index reveals that West Virginia now officially ranks as the single most expensive state in the nation for individual health insurance plans. A newly released marketplace report from WalletHub indicates that an average silver-tier healthcare plan in the Mountain State consumes nearly twenty-one percent of the statewide median household income. The severe premium burden stands in sharp, staggering contrast to neighboring Virginia, where identical coverage accounts for just under six percent of individual household earnings.  And in sports, the gridiron countdown is officially on as twelve Marshall University football players have earned prestigious preseason all-Sun Belt Conference honors from Athlon Sports, with quarterback Carlos Del Rio-Wilson securing a coveted first-team selection.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.