Over the weekend, former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. Clay Marsh Dr. Clay Marsh, chancellor and executive dean for health sciences at WVU, says while prostate cancer typically has good treatment options, this is scary news for the 82-year-old. “Even though there’s good treatment, it’s not good news that he (Biden)…
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A Fairmont house fire Monday morning is being blamed on an electric golf cart purchased hours before. Members of the Valley Volunteer Fire Department were called to 800 block of the Market Street Extension at 10:46 a.m. and found the home to be on fire with what was thought to be a…
AIRMONT, W.Va. — The Fairmont State University Center for Aviation Excellence has plans to add three aircraft over the next 18 months that will give them the capacity to expand. Director and Chief Pilot Joel Kirk said Fairmont State University offers degrees in Professional Flight and Aviation Management. All students get the aircraft business portion of…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Board of Education is throwing its support behind public school employees, joining with county boards of education in passing a resolution in connection with PEIA. Gov. Patrick Morrisey State Board members passed their own resolution at last week’s board meeting. PEIA, the state-run health insurance program, has been promised by Gov. Patrick Morrisey…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. –– The Director of West Virginia’s largest airport said the first days of a REAL ID requirement for boarding a plane have been fairly smooth. However, Dominque Raineri suggested travel numbers will pick up as we head into the weekend and you will still want to get there early. “With more passengers needing…
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Members of the Marion County School System are already working to adjust after-school programming as a result of the DOGE cuts. Donna Heston A recent announcement that the AmeriCorps Flipside Afterschool Program would be a part of large-scale federal cuts has resulted in at least a 50 percent planned drawback of the number…
BECKLEY, W.Va. – A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail has been sentenced for his role in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Steven Nicholas Wimmer, 25, of Bluefield has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the death of inmate Quantez Burks in March 2022. His sentence will…
History was made Thursday afternoon, as the conclave of Catholic Cardinals chose Robert Francis Prevost to be the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. Prevost, who will now go by the name “Pope Leo XIV,” is the first American-born Pope in the history of the Catholic Church, as he is originally from the Chicago area.…
BELVA, W.Va. — Three people in Nicholas County are charged with child neglect as a result of a shooting investigation. Bobby J. Moore (WVDCR) Bobby J. Moore, 28, Caroline A. Stewart, 32, and Connie S. Moore, 58, were all arrested Thursday and charged with felony child neglect. According to the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Office, an investigation…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Testimony before U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in federal court in Charleston disputed whether the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its black lung screening program is actually shut down. Lawyers representing a West Virginia coal miner contend staff layoffs announced for NIOSH have made black lung screening programs impossible to…