CHARLESTON — The House of Delegates passed a state budget that would include long-promised teacher pay raises as well as a $30 million severance tax cut for steam coal. The state Senate is on the verge of passing its own budget that does not include those items, but instead includes $110 ...
MORGANTOWN — A hair care treatment at a Morgantown-area spa left a woman with second-and-third-degree burns on her head, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Monongalia County Magistrate Court. The plaintiff, Kelly Anne Thomas, named Tuscan Sun Spa and Salon, LLC as the defendant. She filed the lawsuit Feb. 25. Cheri Satterfield, the spa’s owner, declined to comment on the pending litigation. Tuscan Sun offers hair, nail, skin care, beauty, diet and weight-loss services at its Boyers Avenue location in Star City. It also operates locations in Fairmont and Clarksburg, ...
MORGANTOWN — Outdoor enthusiasts hiked through the snow Saturday morning to take a tour of a proposed disc golf course to be built at Coopers Rock State Park. The proposed design will cover 71.1 acres of the park alongside trailways in the forest. The course will consist of two 9-basket ...
WVU administration’s stand on bill appalling WVU’s administration must forcefully ally itself with WVU faculty and students to act decisively to stop the campus carry bill (HB 2519): WVU should move to curtail the nationally renowned football and basketball seasons until loaded lethal weapons — killing machines — are banned from college classrooms, dining halls, residence halls and campus-wide. WVU’s administration possesses big weapons. It needs to use them to stop the insanity of loaded lethal weapons in classrooms. It remains disgusting and derelict that the full force of ...
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 ...
