MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Berkeley County School Superintendent Ryan Saxe released a statement Wednesday evening regarding the arrest of a staff member at one of their schools.
Saxe said officials were made aware of serious allegations against Musselman High School teacher Hunter Reed. He was placed on administrative leave. Police have now charged him with soliciting a minor by other means than a computer.
“As Superintendent, I am deeply disturbed by the allegation involving a staff member at

ROANE COUNTY, W.Va. –Two Roane County schools are once again at risk of closure, with students possibly being consolidated into nearby schools.
The Roane County Board of Education has proposed closing Walton Elementary/Middle School and Geary Elementary School. The proposal also calls for consolidating kindergarten through fifth-grade students into Spencer Elementary School, sixth through eighth-grade students into Spencer Middle School, and pre-K students from both schools into the space

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The largest union representing federal government workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, is calling for Democrats to agree to a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.
Rick Heldreth
For the last four weeks of the federal government shutdown, AFGE Local 420 members working at Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton in Preston County have remained on the job. AFGE Regional Vice President Rick Heldreth said this is the fourth shutdown over the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Supplemental food benefits will not be issued for November due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, and food banks and other local non-profits are bracing for what’s to come.
“The unknown makes people nervous and anxious,” said John Roberts with Mountain Mission in Charleston.
“We know about the shutdown, we know about the SNAP benefit reduction and all of that, but we don’t know how everything is going to play out. You have to plan for the worst and then pray for the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Around 1,600 students from several different counties were bussed to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center Wednesday to take part in CAMC’s annual Career Healthcare Showcase.
CAMC employees set up over 40 themed booths to show students the many pathways and programs offered in their area.
“We are showing them that there are careers in West Virginia. They don’t have to move out of state,” said Lauren Lane, a CAMC employee who helped organize the showcase.
The showcase

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the first director of the newly created Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship at West Virginia University will be Patrick Miller, an associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey
“Dr. Miller and the Washington Center are going to push back against the woke ideology that’s infected our schools, help return higher education to its true purpose,” Morrisey said.
“The Washington Center is going to educate and inform but, most

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The president of the WVU Health System says a $28 million gift to WVU Medicine Children’s will help save lives.
Dr. Michael Grace
Dr. Michael Grace said the gift from entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader Thomas Golisano is transformational.
“He saw in us a mission-driven organization much in the way of how he himself is philanthropic and decided to do good things for children,” Grace said Wednesday on MetroNews “Talkline.”
The name of WVU Medicine Children’s is