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Fewer Arrests This Year at WV Football Games

Fewer Arrests This Year at WV Football Games

Police and school officials say policies aimed at reducing binge drinking at West Virginia University football games are achieving their goals. Morgantown Police Chief Ed Preston says the elimination of half-time re-entry has been...

Buck Firearms Season Begins

Buck Firearms Season Begins

Buck firearms season has arrived in West Virginia. The state Division of Natural Resources says the season has opened the Monday before Thanksgiving every year since 1965. Paul R. Johansen, the division’s wildlife resources...

School Enrollment Down in Most Counties

School Enrollment Down in Most Counties

The state Department of Education says enrollment in the state’s public schools dropped by nearly 2,760 students this year. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the decrease is more than double the declines in the...

Fatal Accident Under Investigation

Fatal Accident Under Investigation

Charleston police are investigating after a truck hit another vehicle and then went into the Elk River. Charleston police Sgt. Mark Kinder says in a news release that 41-year-old Jason Alexander Leadmon of Clendenin...

No Decision Yet From Blankenship Jury

No Decision Yet From Blankenship Jury

After a third full day of deliberations, a jury recessed Friday without reaching a verdict in the criminal trial of ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Jurors have been trying since Tuesday evening to reach...

Some Road Signs To Be Replaced

Some Road Signs To Be Replaced

State lawmakers want the Division of Highways to change the way it replaces older road signs in West Virginia. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the Legislature Joint Committee on Government Organization is recommending that only...

Fatal I-77 Accident Under Investigation

Fatal I-77 Accident Under Investigation

Charges are pending the outcome of the investigation into Wednesday’s fatal traffic accident on I-77. The accident Wednesday evening at mile marker 111 on I-77 in the Sissonville area involved a tractor-trailer hauling fruit...

Juried Art Winners Announced

Juried Art Winners Announced

Three artists have won the top prizes in the Division of Culture and History’s West Virginia Juried Exhibition. Selected for $5,000 Governor’s Awards were works by Hanna Kozlowski of Huntington, Alison Helm of Morgantown...

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