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Retails, store benefiting pets, re-opens for Christmas

After being closed for 10 days for 10 days of hard work, Retails in the Morgantown Mall re-opened chock-full of Christmas goods Thursday. The store has been opening with its Christmas inventory on Nov. 1 for the past three years, Gisele Pernell, manager, said. She said the early opening has ...

Hot spot owner pleads to part in robbery

KINGWOOD — Rebecca Davis pleaded Thursday to charges related to the 2016 robbery of her business. Davis pleaded to grand larceny under a plea agreement and conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery under an Alford or Kennedy plea. Both are felony charges and were charged under an ...

Dec. 15 is insurance enrollment deadline on West Virginia exchange

  CHARLESTON — “Be an informed consumer” is the message health advocates have for West Virginians now that enrollment is open for 2019 health plans on the insurance exchange created in the Affordable Care Act. “The ACA still exists,” said Chantal Fields, executive director ...

NCWV region seeing uptick in reports of Hepatitis A

CLARKSBURG — A serious vaccine-preventable disease is seeing an uptick in the region. Hepatitis A, which first plagued the southern counties of the state as part of a multi-state outbreak, has now migrated into north-central West Virginia. According to the Centers for Disease Control ...

PACE celebrates impact on community with ceremony

MORGANTOWN — It was a day of celebration at PACE Enterprises, Inc., in Mylan Park during the organization’s annual awards ceremony. “Without what you do daily we wouldn’t be able to stand here and celebrate,” CEO Greg Morris said. PACE partners with area businesses to provide jobs ...

Dog attack in Westover sends middle-school student to hospital

WESTOVER — A Monongalia County middle school student was attacked by a dog Wednesday morning as he waited for a school bus. The dog was captured and put down. Westover Police Chief Rick Panico said the male pitbull-mix escaped from its owner’s house and followed its owner’s children ...