CHARLESTON — Meeting a self-imposed deadline to get a bill to the desk of President Donald Trump by Independence Day, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Thursday afternoon.
U.S. Reps. Carol Miller and Riley Moore, both R-W.Va., joined a slim majority in voting for the H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in a 218-214 vote, after the U.S. Senate amended and passed the bill Tuesday in a tiebreaker 51-50 vote.
“In November, the American people gave
ELKINS — Elkins City Council has approved the donation of a city-owned “surplus camera” to Elkins High School.
Seven of the eight City Council members present at the most recent council meeting approved a resolution to donate a Fujifilm X-S10 digital SLR camera, with an 18-55mm lens, to EHS to be used by the school’s yearbook and journalism staff.
Fourth Ward Council Member Andrew Carroll, who is an EHS teacher, abstained from voting. Fourth Ward Council member Nanci Bross-Fregonara and Fifth
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CHILDREN’S BOOK DRIVE: The Randolph County Dems are holding a children’s book drive to benefit county independent libraries. They are collecting new and gently used children’s books through July 8. Donations may be dropped off at The Sewing Center during regular
(AP) — The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of being sued by athletes who claim a poor outcome from treatment caused them to lose future earnings.
Before July 2021, when college athletes were cleared to be compensated by third parties for the use of their name, image and likeness, such lawsuits would have been virtually unwinnable.
Four years later, and with schools set to share millions directly with
(AP) — The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a spokesperson for Republican state Attorney General James Uthmeier told The Associated Press.
“People are there,” Press Secretary Jae Williams said, though he didn’t immediately provide further details on the number of detainees or when they arrived.
“Next stop: back to where they came from,” Uthmeier said on the X social media platform
Carl Edward Nine, 82, a resident of Montrose, West Virginia, departed this life Wednesday afternoon, July 2, 2025, at WVU Medicine’s United Hospital Center at Bridgeport, West Virginia. Death was unexpected.
He was born Saturday, Oct. 10, 1942, at Tucker County, West Virginia, a son of the late Jacob Richard Nine and Virginia Watring Nine.
On May 8, 1965, he was married to the former Dorothy Lou Funk, who preceded him in death, March 29, 2009.
Surviving are one son, Timothy Allen Nine and
ELKINS — City officials have thanked former Fifth Ward Council member David Parker for his 10 years of service to the community.
Parker was defeated in his re-election bid in the Elkins Municipal Election on June 10 to challenger Burley Woods.
First tapped to fill a vacant seat on the Elkins City Council in 2015, Parker said this week that his time on the council was special to him. Parker served as a council member for around 10 years, working on multiple committees focused on safety, social
BUCKHANNON — The Mountain Region Drug and Violent Crime Task Force performed a felony arrest operation in Buckhannon Wednesday, a press release from the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office stated Thursday afternoon.
The operation took place “after a year-long multi-county investigation in reference to the complaints of local vape shops selling THC products to persons under the age of 21,” the press release states. “The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, Buckhannon Police Department and WV State Police
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BUCKHANNON – The Mountain Region Drug and Violent Crime Task Force performed a felony arrest operation in Buckhannon Wednesday, a press release from the Upshur County Sheriffs Office stated Thursday afternoon.
The operation took place “after a year-long multi county investigation in reference to the complaints of local vape shops selling THC products to persons under the age of 21,” the press release states. “The Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, Buckhannon Police Department and WV State Police
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including statutes that criminalize abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
The ruling came as no surprise given that liberal justices control the court. One of them went so far as to promise to uphold abortion rights during her campaign two years ago, and they blasted
