MORGANTOWN — A little over a year after the City of Morgantown announced a $4.1 million grant from the Hazel Ruby McQuain Foundation aimed at revitalizing the city’s riverfront, work is ready to proceed. Crews from American Fence, of Fairmont, were at the site Thursday to install ...
CHARLESTON – Here is a sampling of bills introduced Feb. 7. Monongalia-Preston-Marion-area lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. SB 544, to raise State Police salaries over a three-year period. Sponsored by all 34 senators. SB 549, to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to solicit donations for the WVU rifle team on hunting and fishing license applications. Sens. Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, Bob Beach, D-Monongalia, Mike Maroney, R-Marshall, co-sponsors. HB 2879, to authorize lifetime hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for foster or adoptive children. HB ...
CHARLESTON — The House energy Committee approved a bill on Thursday sponsored by its leaders and intended to protect mineral owners from losing their property in partition suits. However, the leaders accepted an amendment that, in the view of the mineral owners present, removed the intended protections. HB 2802 is a mid-size bill at 11 pages, but complex. We can break the major points into bite-size pieces to explain it as it started and how it was changed. Partition suits are used when a mineral tract has multiple owners (called cotenants) and one owner wants to acquire all ...
CHARLESTON — The Senate passed along party lines on Thursday a water quality rule that has been the subject of a months-long tug of war between environmental and business interests. Judiciary chair Charles Trump, R-Morgan, opened his explanation of the rule and his action on it by ...
KINGWOOD — A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing the Kingwood branch of BB&T Bank last year. But Preston Circuit Judge Steve Shaffer refused to go along with a portion of the plea agreement that would have made Dustin Albert Bohna’s Preston County sentence concurrent ...
KINGWOOD - The Preston County Solid Waste Authority Board is still trying to claim more than $40,000 in unclaimed property being held by the State Treasurer's Office for more than two years. The problem is that the treasurer’s office maintains the authority can’t provide adequate ...
