By Maggie Susa, The Herald-Dispatch BARBOURSVILLE — The new Woody Williams Center for Advanced Learning & Careers is slated for completion in December, opening for the spring semester in January in the space where Sears used to be in the Huntington Mall. Students, media, administrators and public officials were invited[Read More…]

By Ashton Pack, The Parthenon HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall’s student radio station created a Halloween newscast last year; this Halloween, they will accept one of the country’s top broadcasting awards.  The Murrow Award is one of the most significant awards any student radio station could receive Charles Bailey, professor of[Read More…]

By Tabitha Johnston, The Journal SHEPHERDSTOWN — Vandalia Award winner Bil Lepp reminisced about his own Appalachian heritage, as he took to the stage of Reynolds Hall on Saturday afternoon. Lepp was the featured storyteller at the 29th annual Appalachian Heritage Festival, which was held in Shepherdstown over the weekend.[Read More…]

By Sierra Marling, Charleston Gazette-Mail NITRO, W.Va. — A single deceptive email triggered a citywide data breach in Nitro, exposing employee tax information and prompting a multi-agency investigation called “Project Papa.” In July, the Gazette-Mail reported that the City of Nitro had fallen victim to a data breach. Newly obtained[Read More…]

By Payton Mandell, The Daily Atheneaum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey attended a regular WVU Board of Governors (BOG) meeting on Sept. 12 to discuss state initiatives to improve the standard of living, artificial intelligence technology and state and University communication. Morrisey said this was the first[Read More…]

By Shelley Hanson, The Intelligencer MOUNDSVILLE — WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital is planning to open a new outpatient clinic in Moundsville, said Tony Martinelli, president and CEO of WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital.Martinelli gave an update on the hospital and its clinic plans during a breakfast meeting hosted recently[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez, Times West Virginian FAIRMONT — A paranormal horror might rise at the Marion County Courthouse next year. The film company Allegheny Image Factory dropped hints of film production in Weston at Wednesday’s meeting of the Marion County Commission. The Morgantown-based production company is producing an adaptation of[Read More…]

By Esteban Fernandez, The Register-Herald BECKLEY — Day two of the hearing on religious vaccine exemptions hinged on the question of whether or not granting two students religious exemptions or philosophical exemptions would open the flood gates to 570 more requests. Two families from Raleigh County are requesting an injunction[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Patrick Morrisey outlined his framework for West Virginia’s energy future in a speech in Wheeling Wednesday, pledging the state would develop a 25-year energy policy that aims to more than triple the state’s power generation capacity. But although Morrisey promised the[Read More…]

By Cody Burton, The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It was a treacherous December night at Milan Puskar Stadium on Dec. 1, 2007, when the No. 2-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers welcomed their bitter rival from 75 miles north: the 4-7 University of Pittsburgh Panthers. It was the final game of[Read More…]