DPNews@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN – Wellpoint brought its statewide “Repack the Backpack” initiative to the Morgantown Mall last Saturday, distributing hundreds of complimentary school supplies and health resources to students and families at the halfway mark of the school year.As ...
Watching your family home burn to the ground does something to a person: despair, heartbreak, defeat. But Michele Herring, who lost her home on Bakers Cemetery Road in Cheat Lake on Friday night, resolves to be positive. “We’re thankful to be alive,” she said Sunday, referring to ...
WV Humanities Council CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 15, 1861: In the aftermath of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Union forces under the ...
The WVU Heart and Vascular Institute has been identified as a Carotid Care Quality Champion by the Society for Vascular Surgery® Vascular Quality Initiative® (SVS VQI) clinical registry recognition program. The program honors health care organizations across the country dedicated to ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Turnpike plans to begin accepting credit cards from drivers at toll plazas early next year. West Virginia Parkways Authority Executive Director Jeff Miller told a group of state lawmakers Tuesday the credit card option will be implemented after everything else with the ongoing installation of a new tolling system is completed. Lawmakers have long asked turnpike officials to include credit as an option for drivers. Miller said it’s going to happen but testing shows it will slow things down. “We can process a cash transaction in typically six ...
Early this month, lawyers representing federal agencies asked for 23 coal companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family to be held in contempt because over the past year they have made late payments or no payments at all on a settlement agreement over mine safety fines. Now, a lawyer for the Justice coal companies is responding in court that there’s a good reason: The companies have empty pockets. A filing this week on behalf of the Justices has a subsection in all capital letters titled, “DEFENDANTS HAVE NO ABILITY TO PAY.” “While the Defendants have not entirely ...
