MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice has directed a team of of DOH officials, including Department of Transportation Secretary Tom Smith, to form a rapid response team to address concerns over road conditions in Preston County, but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are concerned by the narrow ...
CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates settled in for a long floor session Tuesday morning, aiming to crank out bills a day before Crossover Day: Wednesday, Day 50, when all bills have to leave their house of origin and cross to the opposite end of the Capitol. The morning opened with a road ...
MORGANTOWN — Thirty downed trees in three hours. Overturned carports and shattered fast-food restaurant signs. Downed electrical lines, sparking and snaking across driveways. And that was just in Monongalia County. Thousands of people remained without power across the region and ...
CHARLESTON — An effort to kill the so-called Campus Carry Bill at the end of Monday’s evening House session led to a heated debate on the floor. HB 2519, the Campus Self Defense Act as it’s officially called, was on first reading, not typically a time for efforts to kill a ...
CHARLESTON — House Republicans proved on Monday there’s no such thing as lockstep at the east end of the Capitol. Adding spirit to what would have been an otherwise routine day of bill passing, a couple GOP delegates, with support from both sides of the aisle, led mini-rebellions to ...
MORGANTOWN — An Ohio man who allegedly threatened to blow up Ruby Memorial Hospital, kill police and kill hospital staff is charged with making terroristic threats. Joseph Aaron Rerko, 21, of Fairview Park, Ohio, is charged with the felony by the Morgantown Police Department. Police ...
