dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee is set to take action on a bill that would allow county school boards to set limits on student cell phone use on school grounds and in classrooms. HB 2003 came from Gov. Patrick Morrisey, but the version the committee ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates unanimously passed on Thursday a bill to allow schools to hire or contract for armed security officers. HB 2164 blends its original House school safety officer bill with the Senate's West Virginia Guardian program. The ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – School security guard legislation continues to wend its way through the Legislature, with a bill blending House and Senate versions earning unanimous House Judiciary Committee approval on Friday. HB 2164 will now head to the House floor. It's the ...
dbeard@domininopost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved on Friday a bill to ban certain food preservatives and synthetic dyes. The vote to pass HB 2354 was 93-5. It will head to the Senate. As it happened, the version of the bill the delegates passed was ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee sailed through two school safety bills Tuesday morning. One resurrects the West Virginia Guardian Program. The other would require public schools to install a panic alarm system. SB 450 is the Guardian bill. It ...
A misdemeanor charge that led to the firing of a North Elementary School principal two years ago was dismissed last week in Monongalia County Circuit Court. “I am thankful,” Natalie Webb said in a statement Monday delivered by her attorney, Tyler Slavey. “This has been a challenging ...
