MORGANTOWN – The Senate Education Committee took up and approved on Thursday a very different version of the bill regarding transgender athletes. HB 3293, as it came from the House […]
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Ellen Baliker
Ellen Harris Baliker, 77, passed away peacefully on March 30, 2021, following a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was born March 21, 1944, to Estella and Ransel “Red” Fowler, […]
Adam Deshler
Adam James Deshler, 45, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, March 28, 2021, at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital. He was born on Aug. 28, 1975, in Walnut Creek, Calif., son of […]
Franklin Nethken
Franklin Howard Nethken, 74, passed away Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown surrounded by his family. Frank was born in Morgantown on April 29, 1946, […]
Offensive line shuffle: WVU cross-training to maximize depth this spring
MORGANTOWN — The first year under head coach Neal Brown, the WVU offensive line was in a constant state of rotation — not because of phenomenal depth, but simply trying […]
WVU earns commitment from Massachusetts offensive lineman Sully Weidman
By Keenan Cummings MORGANTOWN — West Virginia continues to bulk up the future of the offensive line, and the program took another step toward accomplishing that with the commitment of […]
April Black is her own boss
MORGANTOWN –- April Black doesn’t let any grass grow under her feet. The local entrepreneur, who grew up just over the border in Smithfield, Pa., on a 300-acre farm, never […]
House Health OKs Senate needle exchange and welfare drug testing bills
MORGANTOWN – The House Health and Human Resources Committee approved the Senate bill to license needle exchange programs. It also approved the bill to extend the welfare applicant drug testing […]
Justice’s demands: On the trial of an officer in the death of George Floyd
After the speeches, the hashtags, the marches, the dramatic demands for transforming America’s criminal justice system, comes the relatively mundane but indispensable means of determining guilt or innocence and, if […]
False claims inspired Georgia’s voting law
by Robert A. George If elections have consequences, as the cliche goes, then so do lies. Both kinds of consequences were on display last week in Georgia. On the same […]








