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New DOT Secretary to meet with Monongalia County Commission

MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission will sit down with new West Virginia Department of Transportation Secretary Byrd White and Jimmy Wriston, acting commissioner of the state division of highways, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The meeting will be held like a normal commission work ...

Right-to-Work possibly headed for oral arguments before state Supreme Court

CHARLESTON — Full arguments before the state Supreme Court could be the next step for West Virginia’s right-to-work law after the Court issued a stay of a lower court’s ruling Friday. The stay was requested in a motion filed by state Attorney General Patrick Morrison. He has also ...

Brake receives scholarship to attend program at Harvard’s Kennedy School

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown City Manager Paul Brake will be heading to Harvard this summer to take part in the Kennedy School Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program. Brake is attending the three-week course in June after receiving one of two $16,500 scholarships provided by ...

Project collects stories of those who rely on Medicaid

BRIDGEPORT — One-third of West Virginians rely on Medicaid to access potentially life-saving health care. West Virginians Together for Medicaid held a press conference last week at Community Care of Bridgeport, unveiling a collection of stories from West Virginians whose lives have been ...

Michigan man sentenced for oxycodone distribution

CLARKSBURG — Sean Miller Phillips Jr., of Eastpointe, Michigan, was sentenced April 1 to 18 months incarceration for oxycodone distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced. Phillips, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting distribution of oxycodone in November ...

Former Kingwood city employee charged with stealing more than $30,000

KINGWOOD — A former Kingwood city worker is charged with stealing more than $30,000 while working at the garbage transfer station. Dana Robert Cobb, 27, of Terra Alta, is charged with committing felony fraudulent schemes. He was freed on $5,000 bond. According to the criminal complaint by ...