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Game day parking offered in select WVU lots for $10

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West Virginia University Mountaineers will take on University of Albany Great Danes at 6 p.m. Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium.  This will be a Gold Rush/Coca-Cola Family Day.   The WVU Parking Management team is offering game day parking in select lots in the Evansdale area of campus for all home WVU football games.  The cost each game is $10.   All parking can be paid for via ParkMobile or where pay stations are available in short-term lots.   Fans can park in the following lots:  ST-1 at the Art Museum of WVU  ST-9 at ...

Barbour County man arrested after Labor Day police pursuit

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The man accused of leading police on a multi-county pursuit on Labor Day is facing a collection of charges for the high-speed chase and events leading up to it.  Dustin Joel Mills, 36, of Volga in Barbour County, was suspected of a home burglary in Fairmont on Sept. 2 which led to the initial pursuit by Fairmont police.  Criminal complaints filed in Marion County Magistrate Court claim Mills is suspected of entering a Fairmont residence and taking more than $1,000 worth of items.  He is also accused of ordering around $78 in food at the McDonald’s on Speedway Avenue ...

Kingwood police officer charged in incident 

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A Kingwood police officer was charged Saturday for an incident in which he is accused of discharging a firearm and damaging fiber optic facilities. Preston County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of shots fired at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Brandonville area and found Chase Waugh, 21, of Bruceton Mills, had just fired multiple shots. The shots did more than $2,500 in damage to fiber optic facilities owned by Prodigi, authorities said. Waugh was charged with felony destruction of property and is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $10,000 ...

Council meeting passes 4.5 hours

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   According to the “Procedures for Meeting” available on the city’s website, the mayor or any four members of Morgantown City Council could have established time limits on the public hearing ahead of Tuesday’s second reading of the proposed citywide camping ban.  They opted not to do so.  So, for four-plus hours, well over two dozen speakers came to the podium. Some offered a comment or two; others spoke for 10, 20, 50 minutes. They brought notes, charts, props and books and, with very few exceptions, reasons why they believe the ordinance is poorly ...