CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s top-ranking Republican, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, says there’s no place for the kind of anti-Muslim display that was part of a “GOP Day” at the state Legislature. “I deplore what happened, and I hope that lessons learned,” Capito said while at ...
CHARLESTON – The House Finance Committee approved Friday evening a version of SB 1 – the last-dollar-in or “free community college” bill – slightly altered from what came over from House Education. The committee’s handling of the bill was delayed by several hours of negotiations and retoolings, but House Education chair Danny Hamrick, R-Harrison, and the education staff attorney who worked the bill after it came over from the Senate were on hand to answer questions and witness the vote. The major Finance change to the bill was to remove private and nonprofit four-year ...
CHARLESTON — The Senate unexpectedly passed a handful of bills Friday dealing with severance taxes, paper checks and a few other matters. There were no bills on third reading for passage, but members agreed to suspend the rules to do two reads in a single day in order to pass ...
MORGANTOWN — Five people were arrested after the Mon Metro Drug Task Force searched a home on Wabash Street on Friday. Three Maryland men are each charged with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy. They are: Larry Dante McCollum, 37, of ...
MORGANTOWN — James Timothy Pocius has been named to fill Monongalia County Magistrate Court’s vacant seat. He was appointed by Chief Circuit Court Judge Susan Tucker in an order on Thursday. The appointment was effective Friday. Pocius will be taking the spot of Senior Status Magistrate ...
MORGANTOWN — A collision near mile marker 159 on Interstate 79 stopped traffic for about five hours on Friday. According to West Virginia 511, both lanes reopened about 2:30 p.m. A box truck rear-ended a broken down tractor trailer in the right-hand lane, Monongalia County Sheriff ...
