MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Christmas Cash For Kids kicked off its 20th season Monday in Martinsburg.
The donation-driven effort helped 366 families last year, including 714 children across Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson counties have a brighter Christmas.
Monday’s kickoff event featured long-time partners in Christmas Cash for Kids from Kisner Communications, ROCS Convenience Stores, City National Bank, Walmart, DHHR, and WVRC Media as well as the United Way of the Eastern Panhandle
Organizer Kathy

WESTOVER, W.Va. — Westover City Council has voted unanimously to install Deputy Chief of Police Scott Carl as the next chief.
Carl joined the department in May 2021 when the department was battling serious problems with the public brought on by federal civil rights lawsuits.
Former chief Joe Adams joined the department in October 2020 and served for five years.
Carl started in law enforcement at the age of 19 as a boarding officer in the United States Coast Guard. After leaving active duty Carl

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Legal counsel representing a former law enforcement officer and elected official have filed a motion to dismiss misdemeanor charges of working as a private investigator without a license.
L.J. Maxey, former Bridgeport city councilman and former agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency, was charged after Marion County prosecutors said he worked as a private investigator without a license for the Wheeling-based McArdle Law office in the Henry Silver murder case against Ryan Lane,

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Renovations, consolidations, and expansions are just a few of the words being thrown around the West Virginia School Building Authority offices as interviews wrap up for the annual “Needs” grants.
Eddie Vincent
More than thirty county boards of education submitted grant requests this year with significant projects touching every corner of the state. One of the biggest is in Barbour County, where the board will soon vote on a move to consolidate the county from seven to four

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – With the federal government shutdown ongoing, leadership at Yeager International Airport is taking steps to help the airport’s federal employees who continue to come to work without being paid.
On Tuesday, the airport hosted a donation drive to bring in food and other necessary items for those federal workers. The airport’s administration intends to help the people they work with every day when they need it most.
“These are people that we work with as airport leadership every

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–West Virginia continues the process of trying to help provide food to the hungry amid the government shutdown
–Hope Gas customers speak out against a proposed rate hike
–A body found buried in the back yard of a Wheeling home
–In Sports; The Mountaineer women’s basketball team tips off the season and it’s gameday for the WVU men
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 20 people spoke during a public hearing Monday against the proposed Hope Gas increase that would raise about $80 million for the company if approved by the Public Service Commission.
Attorneys representing the parties involved heard about two and a half hours of testimony against the increase in addition to the 875 written statements received in opposition to the increase.
The proposed increase would be an estimated 25% increase for current residential customers and