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Preston asks judge to stop levying fine against chronic offenders

Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston said he’s asked judges at the municipal and county level to stop levying fines against chronic offenders. During an October work session on issues facing downtown Morgantown, Preston said the municipal court alone issued more than 1,600 fines that went unpaid over an 18-month span. Many of these fines were charged to chronic offenders, some of whom had more than 100 interactions with the MPD through the first 10 months of 2019, Preston said, noting the unpaid fines totaled more than $200,000. “I brought that up in October and, come November, I ...

Australia wildfire burns area the size of West Virginia

Amy Hessl, a West Virginia University geographer and paleoclimatologist, who is in Australia doing research for The National Science Foundation, said wildfires in that country have burned an area roughly the size of West Virginia. “The fires are less extreme today as temperatures have dropped considerably in the past few days,” wrote Hessl in an email from western Tasmania on Wednesday — an island state in the southern part of the country — where she is studying tree rings and ice core data from Antarctica in order to understand the last 2,000 years of climate change in the ...

Girl Scouts share 2020 lineup, promote leadership program

Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, local Girl Scouts and their families geared up for cookie season with Cookie Palooza on Friday at Chestnut Ridge Church. There, they shared the lineup of 2020 cookies — including a brand-new lemon cookie — and how the cookie sale program is ...

$1M Powerball ticket sold in Barboursville; $50K ticket sold in Martinsburg

CHARLESTON — A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at Little General No. 5065 on Route 60 in Barboursville for the Wednesday drawing. The lucky ticket matched five numbers and missed only the red Powerball number. The winning numbers were 2-4-7-43-56 and the Powerball was 22. The Powerplay was 4x. This was the only Powerball ticket in the nation to match five numbers Wednesday night. The ticket-holder or holders are encouraged to sign the back of the ticket and call the West Virginia Lottery at 304-558-0500 for information on how to claim their prize. Another ...

MUB announces planned water outage along Route 857

The Morgantown Utility has announced a planned water outage from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday along Monongalia 857 (Cheat Road/Fairchance Road) between Sunset Beach Road and Sugar Maple Hill. Route 857 will be a single lane in front of the Lakewood Center between 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. The outage is necessary while MUB crews tie into the main water line on both sides of Route 857. Residents and businesses along the following streets will be impacted: Berkshire Drive, Shannon Drive, Tarbert Court, Cardiff Drive, N. Harwich Circle, S. Harwich Circle, Jo Glen Drive, Foothills Lane, Vorbach ...

Mario’s Fishbowl celebrates seven decades in business

Did Sullivan’s girlfriend ever say yes? At Mario’s Fishbowl, one may never know. That’s because the note Sully’s buddies pasted on the wall during the evening he proposed there is partially obscured by all the other notes people have put up over the decades. The current owners ...