When walking in Morgantown’s Greenmont neighborhood, it is difficult to miss the brightly painted bear statue on Green Street. A closer look at the pink bear reveals an assortment of plant and animal species native to West Virginia endangered by climate change, each hand-painted by local ...
When John Glenn said to “get the girl,” everyone knew exactly who he meant. It was 1962, and NASA, America’s then-fledgling space agency, was still finding its interstellar legs. And Glenn, perhaps the country’s most celebrated astronaut at the time, was readying to slip free of ...
MORGANTOWN -- On Monday, Monongalia County Sheriff’s detectives were present for Alexa Randolph’s autopsy, performed at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Charleston. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, and the official report listing the manner of death is ...
WVU freshman criminology student Frannie Kitzmiller has made history as West Virginia’s first female to earn the rank of Eagle Scout through Boy Scouts of America. “One of the reasons I wanted to become an Eagle Scout is to set a goal for the younger girls,” Kitzmiller said. “It is ...
MORGANTOWN -- While it’s still not enough, West Virginia will get extra vaccines next week. Gov. Jim Justice said during his Wednesday COVID-19 briefing that he learned during a White House call that West Virginia will receive 20% more that its typical weekly allotment of 23,000. The ...
While some Monongalia County teachers are readying for their second doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, the coronavirus is still at work in the district. The most recent diagnosis is a student at Cheat Lake Elementary School, Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said Tuesday. No ...