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Volunteers fill backpacks for for Mon County schools snack program

MORGANTOWN — Each Wednesday, In the early afternoon, on Wednesdays, volunteers pack more than 800 bags of food at Scott’s Run Settlement House. The Backpack Snack Program operates throughout the school year, and uses volunteers at 1 p.m., usually taking two hours to pack the number of ...

Big 12 notebook: West Virginia’s White flashes defense in OKC

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — West Virginia centerfielder Brandon White made one highlight catch against Kansas, and couldn’t fathom how replay overturned another.  “He thought he caught it,” Mountaineers coach Randy Mazey said of White’s diving grab in the fifth inning.  Originally ...

Morgantown Police seek armed robbery suspect

MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Police Department is hunting for a man who stole several cell phones from a downtown business on Tuesday. No one was injured in the robbery and no customers were in the store during the robbery as it was supposed to be closed, Andrew Stacy, Morgantown’s ...

Motorcyclist killed in Monday morning crash identified

MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Sheriff's department has identified the motorcyclist killed in a Monday morning accident on Blue Horizon Drive. Richard Saltsman, 35, of Core, died from injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with a car near The Shack Neighborhood House, around ...

Maryland man killed by falling tree while kayaking

KINGWOOD — The name of a kayaker killed Sunday at the Cheat River by a falling tree has been released by the State Division of Natural Resources. Andy Malinoski, Press Secretary – Media Relations, for the Office of Marketing & Communications, identified the victim Tuesday as David ...

The Health Plan MCO ends insurance contract with MedExpress

MORGANTOWN — Just two days after WVU Medicine announced plans to integrate with Wheeling-based managed care organization The Health Plan, The Health Plan terminated its contract with MedExpress, a competitor with WVU Urgent Care. The timing of that termination, however, was coincidental ...