Bill Reger-Nash is a retired professor and exercise physiologist who worked as a public health promotion official at WVU. His employment was misidentified in a Wednesday story due to a […]
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W.Va.’s 82nd House candidates sit down with DP editorial board
The two candidates for West Virginia’s 82nd House appeared before The Dominion Post editorial recently, in a ranging discussion that addressed abortion rights, failing infrastructure, alternative energy and hyper-partisanship among […]
Grades of threat: Gov. Justice, WVU prof address worries of school violence
Gov. Jim Justice this past Friday called for the creation of a task force to address the recent threats of violence leveled at as many as 50 schools in West […]
Repeat grade: Your Community Foundation Inc. brings back educator ‘mini-grants’ for 2024-25 year
If you want to know just what those educator mini-grants did for classrooms across north-central West Virginia last year, take your seat for some quick capsules. There was that lesson […]
Lockdowns and football (or not) aftermath of school threats
Two area high schools dealing with the shadow of violence 24 hours before were set to share something else in common — under the Friday night lights, this time. Football. […]
‘These are terroristic threats’: School officials respond to online threats of violence
Online threats delivered to Preston High School and Central Preston Middle School on Thursday prompted district officials to lock down the two buildings before eventually releasing students early. All extracurricular […]
Don Ireland, Pitt’s (in)famous ‘E-I-E-I-O’ announcer remembers the 1994 Backyard Brawl
Amid all the cheering in that rickety stadium in the Steel City during an improbably wild Backyard Brawl between WVU and Pitt on Oct. 15, 1994, you could still hear […]
National Merit semifinalists from across the region named
Fifteen area high school seniors are now in elite academic company. They were named semifinalists for the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program, the organization announced Wednesday. This is the 70th […]
Mon BOE talks school safety in the wake of Georgia shootings, MHS threat
Two students, dead. Two teachers, dead. Nine others, wounded. Twenty-six teachers – on the front lines of the effort to quickly apprehend the student charged with wielding the assault-style weapon […]
Mon BOE talks school safety in the wake of Georgia shootings, MHS threat
Two students, dead. Two teachers, dead. Nine others, wounded. Twenty-six teachers – on the front lines of the effort to quickly apprehend the student charged with wielding the assault-style weapon […]
