KINGWOOD — Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the first active case of COVID in Preston County. In an update to commissioners, VJ Davis, director of the Preston County Health […]
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Man charged with intent to manufacture, deliver
WESTOVER — Westover Police arrested a Morgantown resident after a search found a loaded SCCY 9mm handgun, as well as roughly 109 grams of methamphetamine and 1.1 grams of marijuana […]
WVU athletic department investigating death threats aimed at Taz Sherman
MORGANTOWN — According to West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons, the athletic department has “looked into” allegations of death threats toward a WVU men’s basketball player following the Mountaineers’ 75-72 […]
House, Senate adopt resolutions urging Biden to name former W.Va. health commissioner as national drug czar
MORGANTOWN – The Senate and House of Delegates adopted identical resolutions Tuesday urging the president of the United States to appoint a former West Virginia public health officer as the […]
Could West Virginia become another tax-free heaven?
West Virginia is unique among America’s 50 states. At a convention in Wheeling, Va., in 1861, delegates from Virginia’s northwest counties, which were loyal to the Union, voted to break […]
Biden must fight his own culture war
By Pankaj Mishra Comparisons of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill to the New Deal are flourishing. They obscure the fact that Biden’s achievement — passing reform legislation against […]
Commonsense gun safety: Try and then try again
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., are trying again at an obvious and needed improvement to gun safety — or the lack thereof. The senatorial neighbors, in […]
Defending the garden from the critters
A few years ago, a friend told me about a sign that made her think of me. It read something along the lines of, “planting a garden means believing in […]
Marijuana grow, more than a pound of meth, multiple guns seized on Sunday
A brandishing call in Morgantown’s North Hills neighborhood led to marijuana grow, more than a pound of meth, weapons and a man being charged with 10 felonies. Isaac C. King, […]
Powell: There is middle ground to be found on police review board
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Interim Police Chief Eric Powell said he believes there is an acceptable middle ground between the special committee looking into the creation of a community police review […]
