FAIRMONT — Donna Heston received a round of enthusiastic applause from a packed house of students after telling them to do something that normally wouldn’t be allowed during an assembly. Take out your phones, the Marion County Schools superintendent announced in the auditorium at ...
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Wednesday crash on Grafton Road that claimed the life of a Uniontown woman and injured three other people. At 6 p.m. Wednesday, deputies were sent to the 2500 block of Grafton Road (U.S. 119) to respond to a ...
MORGANTOWN — A number of furloughed scientists and researchers from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are set to trod some familiar turf this morning. They’re going back to work — at least temporarily. The scientists and researchers are part of the agency’s coal miner and firefighter safety divisions, Cathy Tinney-Zara said. Tinney-Zara is a NIOSH public health analyst and president of Local 3430 of the American Federation of Government Employees, the union representing the bulk of the targeted researchers and other employees. While she ...
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 ...
