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Interplast sends 9 on mission trip to perform reconstruction procedures

MORGANTOWN — A group of nine practitioners affiliated with Ruby Memorial Hospital recently arrived back in West Virginia from a mission trip in Lesotho, Africa. Their goal was to perform reconstruction procedures on as many people as they could in the two weeks they had in Lesotho. They ...

Losing challengers outspend incumbents in Senate races

MORGANTOWN — The challengers in two of three local state Senate races far outspent the incumbents in their unsuccessful election bids. In the third, the spending was close to even, though the vote totals weren’t. The races were for the 2nd, 13th and 14th Senate districts. The figures ...

Canady scholarship ensures legacy lives on 30 years after Lockerbie

MORGANTOWN — The death of Valerie Canady in the Lockerbie bombing of 1988 was tragic for her parents, but offered them a chance to help their daughter’s name live on at WVU. The Valerie Canady Charitable Trust Foundation continues, 30 years after her death, to provide students with a ...

Wreck backs up traffic on Interstate 79 North for miles

MORGANTOWN — A three-vehicle accident sent three people to the hospital and closed both northbound lanes of Interstate 79 for hours on Friday morning. The accident happened in the area of mile marker 151, which is just south of the Westover interchange, about 8 a.m., Deputy D. Stemple, of ...

Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed in bombing 30 years ago

MORGANTOWN — Friday marks 30 years since two West Virginians lost their lives in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, Dec. 21, 1988. Valerie Canady, 25, a Morgantown native, and Harry Bainbridge, 34, a Fairmont native, were on their way home for Christmas when a bomb ripped through the Boeing ...

Construction continues on parking garage near J.W. Ruby Hospital

MORGANTOWN — No rain delays when you’re building a parking garage, Joe Racz said Thursday. Racz is a project manager with Carl Walker Construction Co., the Pittsburgh firm that is putting up the new structure on the Willowdale Road entrance of J.W. Ruby Hospital. The six-story, 810-space ...