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Senator Mike Maroney named chairman of Health and Human Resources Committee

CHARLESTON – Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, today announced that Senator Dr. Mike Maroney, R-Marshall, has been named Chairman of the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee. He replaces Senator Tom Takubo, R-Kanawha, who has been named Senate Majority Leader. Senator Maroney, who was elected in 2016, currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee. He also is the Chairman of the Economic Development Committee and a member of the Banking and Insurance, Finance, Government Organization, Interstate Cooperation, Pensions, and ...

Kingwood voters will decide one-time change in council term lengths

KINGWOOD — Kingwood voters will decide in June whether council terms will be altered one time in order that city elections can be held at the same time as county elections. Council was scheduled to take the final vote Tuesday on a change to the town’s legislative enactment — similar to ...

Rescuers may go after man reported missing in W.Va. mine

CHARLESTON — State mine safety officials are considering going into an abandoned coal mine near Wharton, Boone County, to search for a man who reportedly entered it with another man. “One gentleman did come out of the mine,” said Eugene White, director of the state Office of Miners’ ...

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown police served a search warrant this week at an apartment at 321 Brockway Ave., leading to the arrests of two men and the recovery of several stolen firearms, according to a press release issued by the Morgantown Police Department. The search was conducted Tuesday ...

Man who killed woman in drunk driving accident faces civil trial

MORGANTOWN — The civil suit against Alexander Hambrick, 22, who struck and killed Carli Sears, 20, while driving drunk in January 2016, began Tuesday. Judge Phillip Gaujot is presiding over the case in Monongalia County Circuit Court. The suit was filed by Brent Sears, Carli Sear’s ...