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Handle With Care program evaluation due soon

By Shauna Johnson CHARLESTON — An outside evaluation of the Handle With Care program, which is focused on notice for schools of potentially traumatic police incidents involving students along with staff training and school therapy to address the effects, is due to be completed soon. It’s the first such independent review for the program that got its start in the Mountain State and has been pitched in all 55 counties, said Andrea Darr, director of the West Virginia Center for Children’s Justice in the West Virginia State Police Crimes Against Children Unit. As new Handle ...

Colon cancer survivor advocates for awareness

When Lisa Johnson was on her honeymoon, she was not feeling all romantic butterflies — there was blood in her stool and pain in her abdomen. With Lisa being a recent graduate from WVU, at age 26, she did not have medical insurance. She saw her primary care doctor, who wrote her symptoms off as diverticulitis, which is an inflammation or infection in the digestive tract. She then took advantage of going to a free women’s health clinic in Fairmont. Lisa initially thought her symptoms were internal hemorrhoids because she has been a dancer her whole life, and it is common with ...

WVU Medicine, MAP to celebrate World Autism Day

World Autism Day is Tuesday, and a WVU Medicine center is hoping to bring awareness about it to Monongalia County. According to a recent release, the WVU Medicine Children’s Neurodevelopmental Center, along with autism service providers in the county, will have several events that day. “In partnership with our local and statewide community providers and organizations, such as the Mountaineer Autism Project (MAP), we are excited to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day in a concerted effort in the Morgantown area, by lighting the town up blue,” said Dr. Jodi Lindsey, pediatric ...

Spring notebook: Jack Allison leads impressive drive during two-minute drill

Jack Allison clearly isn’t among the crowd counting out Jack Allison for West Virginia’s starting quarterback job. The junior may have the outside appearance of taking a back seat to Austin Kendall since the Oklahoma transfer arrived, but he’s still handling himself with plenty of ...

Lawyer alleges wrong-doing by Mon County prosecutor

MORGANTOWN — A motion requesting the dismissal of the Monongalia County Prosecutor’s Office in the case against Eric Kendzerski was filed in Monongalia County Magistrate Court on Friday. Kendzerski's lawyer, Andrew Mendelson, of Elkins, who also serves as a state’s assistant attorney ...