News Staff Friends and family came out to support George Washington High School’s championship winning sports teams. A parade was held for the boys soccer team, girls and boys swim teams and the boys basketball teams, who all won state titles in the past year.
MacCorkle Avenue is back open this morning, after it was closed Sunday due to a house fire near St. Albans. The house was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived, and a building behind the home was also damaged. Everyone made it out safely.
West Virginia National Guard troops are heading home, nearly five-months after being deployed to the U.S. Capitol. Troops are turning over security to Capitol Police.
According to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau, West Virginia lost a higher percentage of its residents than any other state in the nation. From 2010 to 2020, the population dropped 3.2%, or about 59,000 people. Because of that, West Virginia was one of only seven states to lose a congressional seat following … Read more
Some public pools will be open for Memorial Day weekend. Waves of Fun in Hurricane will be reopening its wave pool and other activities May 29 at 11 a.m., and they’ve added a new compressor this year to add force to the waves. The water slides won’t be operational this summer because of their age. … Read more
Less than a day after the Morgantown City Council approved the formation of a civilian board to review complaints against law enforcement officers, a police union filed suit to halt the process. The Monongalia-Preston Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 87 filed the lawsuit after the city council unanimously passed an ordinance creating the board that … Read more
Attorneys have until an August deadline to file additional civil lawsuits on behalf of families whose loved ones died under suspicious circumstances at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. Charleston attorney Tony O’Dell told the Charleston Gazette-Mail that he will work to file on behalf of families until the deadline, which is … Read more
West Virginia will mark Juneteenth for the first time as a state holiday this year with a virtual performance from Montell Jordan. The holiday on June 19 celebrates the day in 1865 that all enslaved Black people learned they had been freed from bondage. West Virginia’s Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs said the live-streamed … Read more
The Marshall University Board of Governors unanimously approved a new five-year contract for men’s soccer head coach Chris Grassie. His salary will bump from more than 120-thousand-dollars to over 375-thousand-dollars annually. The deal comes just days after the Herd won the national championship. Grassie led Marshall to their first College Cup title with a 1-nil … Read more
The unemployment rate in West Virginia is down a bit, but the governor still wants to see extended benefits end soon. The rate of unemployed workers is down by one-tenth of one-percent compared to last month. The number of people finding work this month was over 17-hundred. Despite that news, Governor Justice is calling for … Read more