CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s agency that oversees Medicaid is already starting to react to Amendment One, which makes the state Constitution neutral on abortion. The changes being overseen by the agency will affect poor West Virginia women who seek to end pregnancies but who can’t ...
CHARLESTON — Not even a week from the conclusion of this year’s election, state Sen. Richard Ojeda, D-Logan, is gearing up for another bid for public office. This time, it will be for the United States presidency in 2020. Ojeda, who lost in his efforts to represent the 3rd ...
MORGANTOWN -- Judy Polak is a pioneer. The retired WVU NICU – neonatal intensive care unit – nurse was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2014. She's the first person in the world to undergo a clinical trial of a new procedure that uses ultrasound waves to perhaps slow or even ...
MORGANTOWN — On a frosty Sunday morning, Veterans Day, the players and cheerleaders of the Westover Rockets youth football league organization took a break from their sport that favors military imagery to focus on what war is really about. They huddled up at Arnettsville Cemetery in ...
MORGANTOWN — Voices sang heavenward at Greater St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon. Heads bobbed to the mighty music of a three-person choir, whose volume belied its number. People testified with the sermon, and shared smiles, inside jokes and other tellers ...
A $1,325,000 budget amendment by the City of Morgantown reflects residential trash and recycling bills collected by the Morgantown Utility Board on behalf of Republic Services in the first quarter of the 2018-’19 fiscal year. MUB began collections in May, setting up a single-payer system in which the city pays Republic directly, allowing the hauler to focus largely on collecting the trash while MUB focuses on bill collections. The budget amendment, which city council recently passed on first reading, includes $1.3 million in customer bills and $25,000 in taxes tied to bill ...
