MORGANTOWN – As a drum major, Aidan Blankenship is suited to leading the Mountaineer Marching Band across Milan Puskar Stadium gridiron on fall Saturdays. What he didn’t envision heading into his senior year is that he’d also spend a couple Saturdays in a graveyard with gloves and a ...
MORGANTOWN - Before Lamar Riddick was performing around the world as a U.S. Army rapper, he was making music and building a career in Morgantown. Staff Sgt. Riddick worked as a program assistant with West Virginia University’s School of Music while also developing his own career as a ...
MORGANTOWN – On the ground. Lt. Joe Torrillo was being pummeled like an outmatched prize fighter that morning in the shadow of dying Tower 2. Torrillo, who technically had the day off, rushed to his Brooklyn fire station to respond to the call anyway. How could he not? He had studied ...
MANNINGTON – Chuck Knisell drew a crowd when he rolled into the Marion County Labor Day Picnic at Mannington’s Hough Park last year. He was behind the wheel of his late dad Larry’s 1955 Chevrolet 3100 pickup. Vintage rides always generate an audience. It’s not super-fancy, Knisell, ...
PITTSBURGH - A resident of Morgantown pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Thursday. Zachary Velling, 27, pleaded guilty to one count before United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak on Wednesday. In ...
MORGANTOWN – Darlene Dunn, to paraphrase an old song by Bob Dylan, doesn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Or, she said, on what day the rain will fall. “Scattered showers expected,” she said, chuckling. “Jim always makes it rain during the race. At least ...
