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Sports
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WVU football returns to spring practice
March 25, 2025Spring break ended Tuesday for West Virginia University football players, as they returned to spring practice and the home [...] -
A look into the future of WVU women’s basketball following a season of strong seniors
March 25, 2025CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kyah Watson ended her career with 15 of the most hard-fought and athletic rebounds you may ever see. J.J. [...] -
Gilmer’s Allie Ellyson named captain of Class A all-state girls basketball team
March 25, 2025CHARLESTON — Gilmer County’s Allie Ellyson is certainly no stranger to the Class A basketball all-state first team. Following [...] -
COLUMN: Once Wren Baker finds a men’s hoops coach, he’s got to take care of Mark Kellogg
March 24, 2025CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It has to be somewhere in the back of Wren Baker’s mind that his job as West Virginia’s athletic [...] -
North Carolina uses its own defensive might to take down West Virginia, advances to Sweet 16
March 24, 2025CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — There were tears being shed by the WVU women’s basketball team in the back hallways inside Carmichael [...] -
Clay-Battelle downs Trinity Christian 7-6 behind four-run seventh inning
March 24, 2025MORGANTOWN – Trinity Christian and Clay-Battelle met for an early-season intracountry matchup on the diamond as the [...]
- New WVU receivers coach Ryan Garrett surveying the field
- Sam White, Logan Sauve injured, as Arizona takes series against No. 24 WVU
- J.J. Quinerly adds her perspective on the coaching changes with WVU men’s hoops team
Cops and Courts
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Case of former Hopemont Hospital nurse assistant accused in resident’s scalding death goes to Preston County grand jury
March 6, 2025EDITOR’S NOTE: The Dominion Post reporter David Beard is not related to Kylah Beard, the defendant in this case. [...] -
All nine suspects identified and charged in Morgantown robbery, assault case
February 18, 2025Morgantown officials announced on Tuesday that all nine individuals connected to a robbery and assault that occurred in the early [...] -
Case of former Hopemont nurse charged in patient’s scalding death heads to Preston Circuit Court
February 14, 2025EDITOR’S NOTE: The Dominion Post reporter David Beard is not related to Kylah Beard, one of the defendants in this case. [...] -
Hope Gas continues condemnation suits for Morgantown pipeline route; some settle, some fighting
February 11, 2025dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Thirty-one condemnation suits filed by Hope Gas against western Monongalia County [...] -
Sheriff determining ‘level of involvement’ rig had in fatal crash on Cheat Lake Bridge
February 6, 2025DPNews@DominionPost.com The investigation of a fatal accident on the Cheat Lake Bridge at Interstate 68 last month that sent a [...] -
Two former Hopemont employees charged with felonies in scalding death of incapacitated patient
January 29, 2025EDITOR’S NOTE: The Dominion Post reporter David Beard is not related to Kylah Beard, one of the accused in this case. [...]
- Mon Sheriff asks community to quell rumors about bridge crash
- Charges filed in December standoff at law firm
- Federal prison employees’ union seeks injunction against Bureau of Prisons plan for Morgantown, Hazelton prisons
Local Government
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House of Delegates sends Mon-Preston road plowing bill to Senate
March 25, 2025dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A bill to require the Division of Highways to contract for snow removal on secondary roads [...] -
House Education kills bill to enable boards to fire school administrators
March 24, 2025dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – A House bill to give county school boards – and indirectly, superintendents – more [...] -
DOGE removes Parkersburg office from closure list; a NETL contract ripple in Morgantown
March 21, 2025MORGANTOWN – A federal building lease canceled by DOE in Parkersburg appears to be un-canceled. And Morgantown sees a tiny [...] -
State Senate sends school Guardian bill to House; fate of rival bills remains uncertain
March 20, 2025dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate sent its bill to put contracted Guardians into public schools over to the [...] -
State Senate committee again advances bill to require education on the Holocaust
March 20, 2025dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate is again attempting to pass a bill to require Holocaust education in the [...] -
Senate committee moves bill to ban lab-grown meat
March 19, 2025MORGANTOWN – Last year, the Legislature passed the Truth in Food Labeling Act to require labeling of “analogue” food [...]
- Rep. Riley Moore celebrates opening of Morgantown district office
- USDA program cuts and their effects on West Virginia farmers
- Dunbar School Foundation owes state $460K for unallowable DSF Stop vaccine program spending
