MORGANTOWN — A jury trial for a man who allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting at WVU began Wednesday. Zachary Ryan Johnson was indicted by the May 2019 grand […]
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Preston Commission gets good budget news
KINGWOOD — Preston County Commissioners got some good fiscal news this week. The Ryan house, which was bequeathed by the late Dolores Ryan to benefit the county animal shelter, brought […]
Comcast program Internet Essentials opens to low-income households
No one has actually referred to the Internet as “the Information Superhighway,” since the late 1990s, or thereabouts. Even so, the resource and its digital environs is still part of […]
Cheat Lake hotel to open this fall
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown area’s latest hotel, The Cranberry, an 80-room hotel in Cranberry Square in the Cheat Lake area, should be open this fall, giving West Virginia University football […]
State police officer hospitalized after shooting
MARLINTON, W.Va. — A state police trooper was hospitalized after being shot in the stomach Monday evening in Pocahontas County. West Virginia State Trooper First Class Josh Tallman, from the Elkins […]
Strawser guilty of 2014 murder near Greencastle, sentenced to life
By DAN DEARTH, ddearth@herald-mail.com Herald-Mail Media CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Jurors deliberated for a little more than an hour Tuesday before they found John W. Strawser Jr. guilty of the 2014 […]
City will honor promised pension amounts to police, fire retirees despite errors
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to continue paying retirees of the city’s police and fire service their promised pension amounts, even if those amounts have been […]
Recently patched portion of Jakes Run Road suffers slide
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A potholed portion of Jakes Run Road that had caught the attention of Monongalia County’s five delegates in late March and was then patched has since collapsed – […]
Preston man pleads to failure to register as sex offender
KINGWOOD — A Preston man entered a plea to failure to register as a sex offender Tuesday, when his trial was set to begin. Two indictments were returned against Donald […]
Nine Justice companies say reorganization should remove them from lawsuit
CHARLESTON — Nine companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family continue to maintain they should not be a part of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for […]
