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Senior Quin Thompson wants to see culture change with football team
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As Morgantown High senior Quin Thompson spoke to his teammates following Tuesday morning’s practice at Pony Lewis Field, it was hard not to sense a touch of […]
Morgantown Post 2 excited to return to Mid-Atlantic regional
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The American Legion baseball season starts each summer with over 3,500 teams vying to advance to the regional tournament stage — just 1.8 percent of those clubs […]
West Virginia’s game against Dutch national team cut short
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia women’s basketball team had an abbreviated day in Rome. Playing against the Dutch National Team, the game was stopped in the fourth quarter because […]
Golf team finishes 9th in Mt. Claire tournament
MT. CLARE — The Morgantown High golf team took ninth out of 22 teams competing in a tournament at Bel Meadow Country Club. The Mohigans were led by Antonio Rollo, […]
Comcast program Internet Essentials opens to low-income households
No one has actually referred to the Internet as “the Information Superhighway,” since the late 1990s, or thereabouts. Even so, the resource and its digital environs is still part of […]
Cheat Lake hotel to open this fall
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown area’s latest hotel, The Cranberry, an 80-room hotel in Cranberry Square in the Cheat Lake area, should be open this fall, giving West Virginia University football […]
State police officer hospitalized after shooting
MARLINTON, W.Va. — A state police trooper was hospitalized after being shot in the stomach Monday evening in Pocahontas County. West Virginia State Trooper First Class Josh Tallman, from the Elkins […]
Strawser guilty of 2014 murder near Greencastle, sentenced to life
By DAN DEARTH, ddearth@herald-mail.com Herald-Mail Media CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Jurors deliberated for a little more than an hour Tuesday before they found John W. Strawser Jr. guilty of the 2014 […]
City will honor promised pension amounts to police, fire retirees despite errors
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to continue paying retirees of the city’s police and fire service their promised pension amounts, even if those amounts have been […]
