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Opioid outreach program focuses on rural counties
In its continuing effort to curb the opioid epidemic in West Virginia, the WVU Institute for Community and Rural Health will institute a three-year outreach program geared toward helping some […]
Owner of missing snake skips hearing
A warrant was issued for the arrest of the man accused of letting his now infamous snake escape in Sabraton. Shane Stevens missed his initial court appearance on Aug. 14 […]
Additional troops deployed in Dorian response
CHARLESTON — Additional members of the West Virginia National Guard were mobilized for Hurricane Dorian relief efforts. Six members of the Air Guard’s 130th Airlift Wing’s 167th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron […]
WVU’s struggling run game, Mizzou’s struggling run defense set to clash
COLUMBIA, Mo. – One 125th-ranked unit has to give as Missouri and West Virginia each look to put a pair of forgettable Week 1 statistical performances behind them at Missouri’s […]
One dead in house fire
A house fire off Daybrook Road on Friday morning claimed the life of a woman in her early 80s. Mazzie McCoy did not escape the blaze, according to Nimrod McCoy, […]
Documents: Local 814, representing Ruby Memorial employees, faces charter revocation
MORGANTOWN — Laborer’s Local 814 – which represents 1,600-plus employees at WVU Medicine’s Ruby memorial Hospital – is facing charter revocation by Laborers International Union of North America. LiUNA cites […]
Don’t shelve higher ideas to save lives from gun violence
It’s not only bad things that come in threes. Sometimes good things, or in this instance advances, happen three times in a row, too. No, there looks to be no […]
Kingwood Planning Commission discusses regulations for signs
KINGWOOD — Debate on changes in Kingwood’s ordinance regulating signs will continue. The city planning commission met Thursday for a public hearing and possible second vote on the amended ordinance. […]
Why Sen. Manchin passed up the governor’s race
Sen. Joe Manchin has always been politically stealthy. He has practiced to near perfection the ability to balance in the middle as the political world increasingly pulls participants to one […]
