West Virginia University officials said Friday it was temporarily furloughing 875 employees at its campuses in Morgantown, Beckley and Keyser, a move it hinted at earlier this month when it said it was facing a $30 million deficit brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. WVU said it expects to ...
No more new, out-of-state inmates will be transferred to federal prisons in West Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., made the announcement Friday. The senator said he received assurances from U.S. Attorney General William Barr that no more new, ...
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In mid-March when COVID-19 forced community restrictions, leaders of the Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels expected the nonprofit would be inundated with requests for more meals. And it was. But the real surprise was the more than 20 people who stepped in to volunteer, and the response ...
The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday that it will expand rapid testing of inmates transferred to quarantine sites but also that no transfers are scheduled to West Virginia at this time. Among those quarantine sites are FCC Hazelton and FCI Gilmer in West Virginia. The bureau ...
A Tuesday email from WVU informing students living in residence halls that they could return to Morgantown to move out beginning May 11 caught county officials off guard, according to Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom. WVU pushed that start date back to May 18 on Wednesday in ...
