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MORGANTOWN (AP) — With 181 deliberately set street and trash bin fires behind them and more football weekends ahead, Morgantown and West Virginia University have developed new tactics to control rowdy crowds. They just won’t say what they are. City and school officials met privately this week in the wake of more than 40 fires [...]
Continue reading …SHEPHERDSTOWN (AP) — Shepherd University is moving ahead on plans for a Martinsburg campus. President Suzanne Shipley tells West Virginia Public Broadcasting officials are making decisions about space and hiring as faculty assemble the curriculum. The Martinsburg Center for Graduate and Professional Studies may not open until next summer. Shipley says Shepherd needs to expand [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — A judge is letting the American and West Virginia Farm Bureaus intervene in an Eastern Panhandle chicken grower’s lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey ruled this week that the case Lois Alt and her Eight is Enough farms brought over alleged violations of the Clean Water [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The Associated Press decided not to cover the West Virginia gubernatorial debate Tuesday because of restrictions placed on media coverage by its organizers. The debate’s sponsors — the West Virginia Broadcasters Association and AARP — barred still photographers and reporters from covering the debate in the same room as the candidates, allowing [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The average price at the pump took a big jump in West Virginia this week to $3.90 a gallon. That average price per gallon for regular unleaded is up 7.6 cents since last week, according to the Triple A’s fuel gauge. It makes the price of gas in West Virginia almost a [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH CHARLESTON (AP) — Good news for anglers: It’s time to restock West Virginia’s trout streams. The Division of Natural Resources started its two-week fall program Monday. Wildlife resources chief Curtis Taylor says 39,000 pounds of trout will be put in 25 streams and eight lakes. About 20 percent of the total will be brood [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia has $9 million left over from a federal broadband grant and is looking for ideas on how to spend the money. The state received a $126.3 million stimulus grant to expand high-speed Internet access to rural areas. Any money that isn’t spent by Jan. 31, 2013, will be returned to [...]
Continue reading …MARTINSBURG (AP) — The Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority is moving to settle old debts after securing a commercial lease agreement with the West Virginia National Guard. Authority board chairman Clarence Martin III says a recent $150,000 settlement with B&BT Bank will effectively cut that debt in half. Martin tells The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Md., that [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — Republican Senate candidate John Raese filled in wetlands and damaged more than 2 miles of streams when he rerouted them to create waterfalls on a private, 18-hole West Virginia golf course that federal regulators say he built without the required permits. The years-long construction of Pikewood National Golf Club near Morgantown is [...]
Continue reading …The start times for most of the WVU basketball games for the 2012-13 season have been announced. In November, the game on the 12th at Gonzaga has an 11:59 p.m. start time; on Nov. 22 the Marist game in the tournament is at 12-noon; the Fri., Nov. 23 tournament game will be at either 12:30 [...]
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