At last, Congress appears poised to designate lynching as a federal hate crime punishable with enhanced penalties. The House last month passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act with just three […]
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WVU adds Florida State transfer, kickoff specialist Parker Grothaus
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia head coach Neal Brown alluded to a personnel move that was upcoming on special teams during his spring news conference last Thursday. It didn’t take long […]
West Virginia will face Kansas State with some momentum heading into Big 12 tournament
MORGANTOWN — Any kind of run West Virginia makes in the Big 12 tournament will go through the state of Kansas. The Mountaineers (15-16, 4-14 Big 12) were already assured […]
NOTEBOOK: West Virginia’s defense comes up big in winning rematch against TCU
MORGANTOWN — Playing its final home game of the season, West Virginia may have come up with one of its top defensive efforts of the season in knocking off TCU […]
COLUMN: With a season like WVU has, it deserved to celebrate a little against TCU
MORGANTOWN — They celebrated Saturday. On the court. In the stands with their fellow students. “It was just happiness,” WVU guard Taz Sherman said after the Mountaineers held off TCU […]
University High takes second in state in Class AAA wrestling, Luca Felix, Brock Kehler win titles
HUNTINGTON – University went 2-1 in the championship round and finished runner-up in Class AAA in the 75th West Virginia State High School Wrestling Tournament at Mountain Health Arena. “Good […]
Sunflowers for Ukraine: The global fight for democracy
Tucked inside today’s paper, you will find a poster: A field of sunflowers in front of Ukraine’s flag with the words “Let freedom ring” written in the Cyrillic alphabet. This […]
March 6 letters to the editor
Newspaper critical of Trump but not Biden I read with interest the editorial “Russia wages war on more than Ukraine” (DP-02-26-22) and the obvious lies put forth by the Russians, […]
Did Biden make his case?
by Carl P. Leubsdorf President Joe Biden gave two distinct State of the Union speeches. The first one was better. Biden drew repeated bipartisan applause with a vigorous denunciation of […]
Men with criminal records could solve U.S. labor shortage
by Shawn D. Bushway and Jeffrey B. Wenger American employers are panicked about the lack of willing workers. They shouldn’t be. There are plenty of Americans who want to work. […]







