Police seek escaped Star City shooting suspect
Law enforcement agencies in the Wheeling area are searching for 18-year-old Xander Scott Finley-Ball, who escaped from a detention facility in Wheeling on Oct. 10. The Wheeling Police Department, United States Marshals Service, West Virginia State Police, Ohio County Sheriff's Office, West ...
Marion Schools recognizes its National Merit semifinalists
FAIRMONT – Four students from Marion County Schools are in elite academic company these days, and the quartet took up a sizable part of the proceedings during the district’s Board of Education meeting this week. “This is an honor,” Superintendent Donna Heston said, as she introduced ...
Citizenship Requirement Amendment a matter of language, geography
West Virginia residents will see an amendment to Article IV, Section 1 of the West Virginia Legislature this Election Day. Here’s what to know about the amendment. The current law reads that “The citizens of the state shall be entitled to vote at all elections held within the counties in ...
MUB opening leaves utility without non-city representative, at least temporarily
MORGANTOWN – For the last decade, Cheat Lake area resident Tom Witt has been the lone member of the Morgantown Utility Board that is not a resident of Morgantown. This despite the fact that two-thirds of the utility’s customers and the overwhelming majority of its major projects fall ...
Public schools in West Virginia see second largest drop since COVID
CHARLESTON – West Virginia’s 55 county public school districts saw their largest combined drop in student enrollment since the period spanning the worst of the COVID-10 pandemic. According to numbers released Tuesday by the West Virginia Department of Education, the fall headcount ...