Today marks five years since the death of Nolan Burch during a fraternity initiation. The then-WVU freshman lay unresponsive at the Kappa Sigma house while passersby did nothing to help him. Tuesday, those who attended the screening of “Breathe, Nolan, Breathe” at the Montainlair ...
Several acres of brush in a wooded area off Statler Run Road burned Monday night. The cause of the fire is unknown, Blacksville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Kevin Wilson said. He estimated 8-10 acres were on fire and said it was mostly underbrush that burned — the trees are still standing. “All the small stuff is gone,” Wilson said. No buildings or people were damaged or injured because of the blaze. The call came in between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wilson said. Firefighters were on scene until about midnight. Fighting the fire was difficult because of several factors, Wilson ...
KINGWOOD — Call your elected representatives and the State Public Service Commission to complain about delays in the water project, Public Service District 1 urged customers Tuesday. “I urge everyone, call the public service commission, call your delegates, call them all,” Mike Adams ...
Steps are being taken by West Virginia University to build a facility for its 330-member Pride of West Virginia marching band on its Evansdale campus on the site of Hawley Field, the former home of WVU Baseball. The marching band, which has been in existence for more than 100 years, ...
A first of its kind clinical trial was completed last week at West Virginia University when a small device was successfully implanted in the brain of a 33-year-old man who has struggled with opioid and benzodiazepine abuse for more than a decade with multiple overdoses and relapses. This is the first time in the U.S. that brain stimulation — DBS — has been used to help a person fight opioid addiction, WVU officials said. The procedure, performed by neurosurgeon Ali Rezai, executive chair of Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, involved implanting a Medtronic DBS device in the ...
It might be hard to believe, but Christmas is rapidly approaching, and the Salvation Army is getting ready for a busy holiday season. Nicole Greenland and her husband Sheldon are Lieutenants for the Salvation Army out of Monongalia, Marion and Preston counties. Saturday, they started the ...
