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Mon County Judge Robert Stone dies at 79
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia announced Monday the death of Senior Status Judge Robert B. Stone. Stone served as a circuit judge in Monongalia County for 24 […]
Forest fires rage across the state
BY CHRIS LAWRENCE CHARLESTON — The low humidity, warmer temperatures, and the steady wind in recent days has turned the West Virginia forest and the new leaf litter on the […]
PEIA talks begin around state
CHARLESTON — PEIA’s Finance Board is going around the state for conversations about what many public employees will likely consider bad news, a 10% premium increase for the coming year. […]
COLUMN: Up-and-down 1st game follows offseason trend for Eilert and WVU
The festivities actually began Sunday night for Josh Eilert and his family. “We had a table for 20 at Oliverio’s and every single one of them was an Eilert,” the […]
Mountaineers survive season debut behind Edwards and Slazinski
MORGANTOWN — Ofri Naveh hauled in the ball just past half court, but seeing how he was tightly guarded and in an awkward position to begin with, he had little […]
Fed is right to stay the course on interest rates
Last week, the Federal Reserve did the right thing by leaving well enough alone, keeping the benchmark interest rate at about 5.4%. With the acute pressure that the board and […]
Science could finally discover aliens. What does that mean?
by Adam Frank Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or […]
School board elections could make (or break) our democracy
by Julie Marsh, Pedro Noguera and Miguel Casar Rodriguez School boards across America are under attack. We have all seen the disruptions at school board meetings triggered by clashes over […]
Meeting over warming shelter crowded, chaotic
MORGANTOWN — A Jerome Park Neighborhood Association meeting in the basement of Sabra United Methodist Church was drowned out by shouting from the main floor sanctuary Monday evening as tempers […]
