CHARLESTON — Divides over education continue at the Capitol, raising more and more talk of a special session. The presidents of the two West Virginia teachers unions continue to say a pay raise was never the central reason for a two-day strike earlier this year, and the Senate Finance ...
CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates quickly passed the last-dollar-in community college bill on Wednesday but engaged in some long debates over amendments to some less prominent bills. And in the Senate, members adopted the Finance Committee changes to the bill eliminating the tax on ...
MORGANTOWN — The annual point-in-time homeless count, held over 24 hours on Jan. 23, indicates the number of unsheltered homeless in Monongalia County has nearly doubled in the past year. Rachael Coen, chief programs officer with the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, told the ...
MORGANTOWN — A suspected armed fugitive is dead, after police rushed to the scene of College Avenue and Falling Run Road, which was shut down Wednesday after a shots-fired call. Members of the U.S. Marshals Service were attempting to apprehend the suspect, who had a handgun and tried to ...
CLARKSBURG -- Daivon Duren, an inmate at FCI Hazelton Federal Correctional Institution, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on an assault charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced. Duren, 32, was indicted on one count of assault of a correctional officer involving physical ...
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Police are responding to a report of shots fired in the vicinity of College Avenue and Falling Run Road. According to scanner traffic, a suspect has been detained. The roads in this area are closed and the city asks residents are asked to stay clear of this area ...
