Diane Ruth Shelton, 75, of Katy, Texas, formerly of Masontown, passed away on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, at Houston West Methodist Hospital. Diane was born in Independence, on Aug. 20, […]
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James Turner
James Roy “Jim” Turner, 72, of Independence, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. He was born on Jan. 8, 1949 in Grafton, the son of the late James and […]
Phillip Robison
Phillip L. Robison, 67, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, passed away on Nov. 13, 2021, at Wheeling Hospital. Phillip was born on Sept. 5, 1954, in Morgantown, the son of the […]
John Zinn
John Vincent Zinn, 55, of Grafton formerly, of Morgantown, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, at Grafton City Hospital in Grafton. He was born in Morgantown on Oct. 1, […]
WVU wide receiver Kaden Prather reaping benefits of patience, hard work
MORGANTOWN — If you think of a Power 5 program in the Big 12, SEC, ACC and Big Ten, there’s a strong chance Kaden Prather held an offer from them […]
As Jalen Bridges slows down, Bob Huggins expects his game to keep going up
MORGANTOWN — Lost in all the hoopla that came with another rivalry victory against Pitt was the play of the one guy who hails from West Virginia. Former Fairmont Senior […]
Morrisey joins multi-state suit against Biden’s Medicare/Medicaid provider vaccine mandate
MORGANTOWN — State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined another multi-state lawsuit opposing a Biden administration vaccine mandate. This one concerns health care workers employed by providers receiving Medicare and […]
Stop shaming parents over COVID vaccines
It was a record-scratch of a moment: Texas actor and potential gubernatorial hopeful Matthew McConaughey, who is vaccinated against COVID-19, declared in an interview last week that his younger children […]
America’s broken justice system
by Will Bunch You’ve probably heard the old political maxim, most popular in the crime-ridden 1970s, that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. In the 2020s, it turns […]
Opening primaries is a necessary first step toward bigger reforms
by Kevin Frazier If there were a silver bullet for democratic reform, you think we would have found it by now. With countries around the world experimenting with various forms […]
