By COURTNEY HESSLER The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Leah Hickman, a 21-year-old Marshall University student who was strangled to death, was last seen alive 10 years ago Thursday, Dec. 14, and her killer has still not been identified. The investigation was thrust into the national spotlight when it was initially treated[Read More…]

By WENDY HOLDREN The Register-Herald BECKELY, W.Va. — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is calling on the Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration to consider rescheduling a type of medication connected to overdose deaths in West Virginia. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Acting[Read More…]

By JEFFREY SAULTON The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.V.a  — Area oil and gas company representatives gathered Wednesday at the Blennerhassett Hotel to learn how the Shale Energy Alliance can make a difference and make the industry grow. Dave Caliguiri, with the Shale Energy Alliance, said the alliance is[Read More…]

By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is talking with two plastics manufacturers about providing them plastics technology worker training facilities at the college next year, said officials at the college’s Board of Governors meeting Wednesday. College officials met with two companies —[Read More…]

By ADRANISA STEPHENS The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va.  — Members of the Martinsburg chapter of the AARP will be delivering Christmas to area seniors early this year. Members hand-prepared “blizzard boxes” Wednesday at the Berkeley Services Senior Center. According to Gloria Young, president of the Martinsburg/Berkeley County AARP Chapter, in West[Read More…]

WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Managing diabetes and high blood pressure can feel like a solitary enterprise dependent on relationships with objects (like pills or foods) and activities (like brisk walks or early bedtimes) instead of relationships with people, but a group of West Virginia Universityresearchers is hoping to change[Read More…]

By EDDIE TRIZZINO Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va.  – After months of practice and preparation, Kayleb Band found himself in a race against the clock to complete a four-course meal. Band and the rest of the team members of Pierpont Community & Technical College’s culinary competition team managed to beat[Read More…]

By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va.  — A picture by a St. Marys woman whose hobby is photography was chosen for the cover of a calendar being published by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Transportation. Ronda Knight’s photo of goldenrod[Read More…]

By CRAIG HOWELL The Weirton Daily Times WEIRTON, W.Va.  — The City of Weirton may soon begin the process of establishing its own land bank. The issue was raised by Ward 4 Councilman George Ash during Monday’s Weirton Council meeting. “I’m not sure how it works,” Ash said, suggesting the[Read More…]