MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Former North Elementary School vice principal, Carol Muniz, has been found not guilty of battery against a student. The charges were filed after detectives from the Morgantown Police Department reviewed classroom surveillance footage from January 2023. The footage showed Muniz, a member of the safety response team, striking the student with ADHD in…
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — North Central West Virginia residents who were affected by the intense storms that occurred during August 2023 are being encouraged to explore Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance before the April application deadline. Residents affected in Harrison, Calhoun, Kanawha, Clay, and Boone counties are urged to visit a designated FEMA assistance site…
KINGWOOD, W.Va. The Westover resident charged in a 1985 Preston County cold case murder is now facing a superseding indictment involving sexual misconduct charges. David Adams, 57, has now been charged with four counts of first-degree sex assault and three counts of second-degree sex assault. Adams was charged in February of last year in the…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A longtime member of the Kanawha County Board of Education visited Morgantown as part of his campaign for a judgeship on the West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals. Charleston attorney Ryan White met with the Monongalia County Commissioners during their final meeting in February, where he discussed his goals if he’s elected…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Bartlett Housing Solutions will not receive any state funding from the West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness or the West Virginia Department of Human Services this year. The designated emergency triage shelter in the community has traditionally received $166,000 of its half-million-dollar operating budget from those two organizations. Instead, the Rainbow House, an…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Star City Volunteer Fire Department is calling on the community they serve to help them repair a donated pumper truck. A new Square donation account has been set up on the department’s Facebook page, where they look to gather up to $15,000 to fix the engine on the fire truck. This…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Members of Morgantown City Council approved the first reading of the 2024-25 budget with an adjustment made towards extra funding for the city library. The first reading of the ordinance to approve the $45,031,858 budget for 2024–25 that included an adjustment of $20,000 towards library operations was unanimously approved by council during…
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. An effort to standardize holiday pay for firefighters statewide passed out of the House Committee on Government Organization and remains alive with less than one week to go in the 60-day legislative session. Senate Bill 557 is sponsored by Mike Oliverio, R. Monongalia, 13, because he said many municipalities across the state…
