KINGWOOD — Leroy Forbes said his office is usually the great outdoors. Forbes and his wife Marlene own Silver Eagle Security in Kingwood. “We do a lot of park security,” he said. “Some of the job sites require going on 4-wheelers and riding the trails. That’s my favorite job, ...
Potholes. Flooded roadways. Uprooted trees, resting precariously on utility lines. Rock slides. Driving in Monongalia County these days, Tom Bloom said Thursday, means keeping both hands on the wheel. All the better, the county commissioner said, to avoid one roadway calamity ...
MORGANTOWN — It's Day 537 of the pandemic, Joint Interagency Task Force Director Gen. James Hoyer said Wednesday. There are 670 West Virginians hospitalized with COVID, he said, with 202 in ICUs — just shy of the Jan. 6 peak of 219. Of those in ICUs, 109 are on ventilators — topping ...
West Virginia is gearing up for heavy rainfall and flooding as the remnants of Hurricane Ida make their way into the region. “It's already a wet month,” Paul Walker, AccuWeather senior meteorologist, said. “That, on top of this rain, is what leaves us to have great concern for ...
KINGWOOD -- At an emotional and disorderly emergency meeting of the Preston County Board of Education Monday morning, board members voted 3-2 in favor of requiring masks until Sept. 27, with a provision that each school have a place for students to unmask. Board members Jeff Zigray and Pam ...
MORGANTOWN – Three Greer Industries companies were assessed civil penalties totaling $573,525 for violations for the state Water Pollution Control Act. The state Department of Environmental Protection announced the violations and settlement agreements in consent orders published in July. ...