On a late August morning, Jamie Fenton had the opportunity to cross something off his list that he had not done in a long time — sit in a dental chair and have his teeth assessed and cleaned. Tiffany Summerlin, a dental hygienist with MCHD Dentistry at Monongalia County Health Department ...
BY JARETT LEWIS CHARLESTON — Public schools in West Virginia are dealing with a problem of chronic absenteeism. In other words, students too often are not showing up for class. Recent information released from the state Department of Education said 28% of students in West Virginia ...
CHARLESTON — Within a week of a deadline for funding the federal government, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said it’s definitely time to worry. “I am very concerned. A government shutdown is a miserable tactic. It scares people — if you’re on Social Security, veterans, federal worker. ...
CHARLESTON — Twenty-eight percent of West Virginia public school students missed 18 or more days of school last year and labeled chronically absent. The numbers are part of the state Department of Education’s Balanced Scorecard that was released last week. A chronically absent student ...
CHARLESTON — Authorities are continuing the search for an inmate who ran off from a work release detail at the Mountain State Forest Festival office in Randolph County. “We’re just following leads at this point,” Randolph County Sheriff Robert Elbon Jr. said in a Monday telephone ...
BY MIKE NOLTING State lawmakers are reacting following the ‘no confidence’ vote by the West Virginia University Faculty Assembly. The assembly voted 797 to 100 Wednesday afternoon in favor of the resolution. It now goes to the WVU Board of Governors for consideration. The BOG issued ...