MORGANTOWN — Trevon Wesco is going from the Applemen to the Big Apple. The Musselman High and West Virginia graduate was selected by the New York Jets in the fourth round with the 121st overall selection in the 2019 NFL Draft. Remarkably, Wesco was drafted one spot after WVU teammate Gary ...
By Chris Lawrence BUCKHANNON — Gov. Jim Justice and other leaders with the West Virginia State Park system on Friday unveiled an array of improvements to the West Virginia State Park System. Using Audra State Park in Upshur County as the backdrop, the governor showed off some of the ...
LEWISBURG — Gov. Jim Justice disputed many aspects of a recent profile in Forbes, but not a couple of juicy tidbits in Paragraph 1. “He has a sandwich named after him at the local Arby’s, while at Hardees there hangs a handwritten note: ‘Hardees Gals — Please take care of Big Jim ...
The attorney for Michelle Gelada seeks to dismiss the civil suit filed by parents of the West Virginia University student Gelada killed in a Morgantown traffic accident. In February 2018, Leah Berhanu — a 21-year-old engineering student — was struck in a pedestrian crosswalk on Patteson ...
MORGANTOWN — The highest bid for the 7.5-acre Morris Mobile Home Park on Manchester Drive was $777,000, according to Joe R. Pyle Complete Auction and Realty Service. The mostly flat parcel of land is located just behind Shorty’s Garage and sits outside Morgantown’s city limits. Tia Wolski of Joe R. Pyle, declined to comment on the sale until the agreement is seen by all of the beneficiaries, some of whom live out of state. That property was sold at auction Wednesday morning. Results from Wednesday’s second auction, 459 Tyrone Road, a 3,400-square-foot home that sits on 20 ...
By Suzanne Elliott Two professors in West Virginia University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have received a $125,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to determine the viability of early-stage technologies that could change what’s possible in space. “The funds will be used for conducting pilot studies for determining the feasibility of the proposed concept,” said Yu Gu, a WVU associate professor, who is working on the project with Piyush Mehta, an assistant professor. “We will build a high-voltage chamber to test if the ...
