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Bipartisan bill protects miners’ pensions, health care

Bipartisan legislation designed to protect retired miners — whose pensions and health care coverage have been threatened because of recent coal company bankruptcies and the 2008 financial crisis — was introduced Wednesday by Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. and nearly a dozen other U.S. Senators from both sides of the aisle, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “This is truly a bipartisan bill,” Manchin said Wednesday afternoon during a conference call. “I have been working on this since 2013.” The legislation, called The Bipartisan ...

Senior Monongalians host early holiday ceremony to honor vets

U.S. Marines don’t cry. But the eyes of John Kilionski, who served in the Corps from 1961-67, definitely did soften Wednesday morning at Senior Monongalians. It’s not like it was a war story, he said. Or that it was even any kind of a big deal. Except, on both counts, maybe it ...

Deckers Creek dam project could continue into next year

KINGWOOD — Work is progressing on the Deckers Creek dam project, according to PSD1 Board Chairman Rodney Liston. However, he said, it might not be completed by the end of the year. Liston said at a meeting last week the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) gave the district a 98% completion on the water source side of the dam. At this week’s Preston County Commission meeting, he said the piping and risers are in place. All that remains is some spillway work and cleanup. PSD 1 Board Member Mike Adams said the downstream part of the project is at the mercy of the ...

Supreme Court denies Miller’s request for new trial

KINGWOOD — The State Supreme Court has denied Kevin Monroe Miller II’s request for a new trial. Miller, 30, of Newburg, was convicted by a jury in 2018 of two counts of wanton endangerment. He was later convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. All the charges were in connection to an October 2016 incident at his parents’ home. He and his father each shot, during an alleged argument over the younger Miller’s child, who was at the home. Miller wounded his father. Miller and the child’s mother do not have custody of the toddler, according to the opinion. ...

Caridi uses weekend off to follow family tradition

So, what did you do last week when the WVU Mountaineers weren’t playing a football game? If you’re Tony Caridi, the sportscaster who calls the action for radio, you did the usual. You know: Hanging out in your kitchen baking bread with Tony Bennett and Charles Barkley, like ...

WVU forms partnership with Chinese university

West Virginia University’s Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources formed a partnership with China University of Mining and Technology that will enable eligible students from China to study at WVU. The program, which could possibly be underway by fall 2020, will allow students from CUMT’s campus in Xuzhou, China, to come to Morgantown to complete undergraduate degree requirements in courses such as mining engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering. Once that degree is earned, CUMT students would then have the option to apply for the Master of ...