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Teacher pay raise bill remains a cliffhanger in W.Va. Senate

CHARLESTON — Maneuvering over a pay raise for teachers and school staff continued in the state Senate. The Senate voted 18-14, with two absences, to amend its version of the state budget into the House of Delegates’ version Tuesday evening. The House version includes a teacher pay ...

Morrisey part of push urging Senate to curb robocalls, spoofing

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is one of 54 across the U.S. urging the U.S. Senate to enact legislation to curb illegal robocalls and spoofing. A bipartisan coalition of 54 state and territory attorneys general sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Senate in ...

WVU graduate students learn about advocacy firsthand in Charleston

MORGANTOWN — WVU graduate students in a public advocacy course spent this semester traveling Interstate 79 between Morgantown and Charleston. They were all talking to state lawmakers about legislation introduced during the ongoing session, which ends Saturday. Half of those students ...

Senate Transportation begins tweaking Road Fund formula bill

CHARLESTON — The Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee began work on Tuesday on a House bill requiring the Division of Highways to develop and apply a formula to equitably distribute road funds among the districts and counties. Some issues with deadline dates in the bill ...

Medical marijuana banking bill passes the W.Va. Senate

CHARLESTON — The state Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill aiming to determine how money should be processed in the medical marijuana industry. Senators voted 29-4 in favor of the bill. Senators Mike Azinger, Donna Boley, Rollan Roberts and Eric Tarr, all Republicans, voted against the ...

Man charged with sexual abuse for the second time this year

MORGANTOWN —  A Morgantown man previously accused of biting and sexually abusing a woman in Walmart is now charged with inappropriately touching a woman in Sheetz. Joseph Dane Goodfellow, 30, is charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. About 7:30 a.m. Feb. 11, Goodfellow ...