Decrease in revenue was offset by increase in grants, appropriations

November 8, 2019

West Virginia University may forever be steeped in the gold and blue, but its Board of Governors learned Friday at its regular meeting the university is in the black. Paula Congelio, WVU’s Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, said revenue for fiscal 2019 decreased by almost 1%, but that loss was offset by increases in non-capital grants, revenue from contracts, other operating revenue and state appropriations. Items that had an impact on fiscal 2019 revenue include a $10 million signing bonus from Sodexo, which took over student dining services. The university ...

Man sentenced to 1-3 years for terroristic threats after threatening to shoot up WVU’s campus in April 2018

November 8, 2019

A man who threatened to shoot up West Virginia University was sentenced to prison this week. Clarence Steve Wright, 51, was sentenced to serve one to three years in prison, by Chief Circuit Judge Susan Tucker, according to the Monongalia County Circuit Clerk’s office. Wright pleaded guilty ...

West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association hosts fall meeting at the Morgantown Marriott

November 7, 2019

West Virginia’s co-tenancy law is working, but there are still kinks to be worked out with the fledgling law, attendees of the fall meeting of the West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association learned Thursday. Co-tenancy, which passed last year and became law in July 2018, is designed to advance the state’s natural gas industry. It requires 75% of land owners to approve gas drilling on site. Perhaps more importantly, however, it gives non-consenting owners a pro-rata share of lease bonuses and royalties on a working natural gas well. Besides advancing the state’s natural ...

Charge against Hoard upgraded to first-degree murder

November 7, 2019

KINGWOOD — The charge against a man accused of a weekend shooting death was upgraded to first-degree murder Thursday. Aaron Glenn Hoard, 33, of Morgantown, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the Nov. 3 shooting death of Grant Felton Jr., 38, of Terra Alta, outside Shorthorns Saloon in Terra Alta. The second-degree charge was dismissed and the first-degree charge made at a hearing in Preston Magistrate Court Thursday afternoon. Preston Magistrate P.L. Grimm did not set bail. Only a circuit judge can set bond in a case that carries a possible life ...

Mon Valley Habitat for Humanity, WVU team up to help provide housing at new location

November 7, 2019

Sometimes, a kid just has to romp in her front yard. Even on a cold, rainy day. And even if said yard doesn’t exist … yet. That’s what 4-year-old Athena Graham was doing on this particular cold, rainy Thursday afternoon at 1451 Bergamont St., in Morgantown. The narrow, ...

Students honor veterans with music, displays at ceremony

November 7, 2019

KINGWOOD — Kingwood Elementary School honored local veterans Thursday with music, displays and snacks. Veterans visiting the school were treated to a performance of the official song for each branch of service by the school choir. “I have a granddaughter singing today,” veteran ...