MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University community is remembering former quarterback Chris Gray who died 25 years ago Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Former Mountaineer quarterback Chris Gray.
Gray worked at the World Trade Center for Cantor Fitzgerald that occupied floors 101-105 in the North Tower, right above where American Airlines Flight 11 struck. There were no survivors.
Gray played in 13 games primarily as a backup quarterback from

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–Remembering 9/11 in West Virginia
–Fred Persinger thunbnails key games in high school football for Friday night
–WVU and Marshall prepare for game two
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MONTGOMERY, W.Va. — A quarter century ago, Lisa Woo was the vice principal at South Charleston Junior High School as the terroristic attacks of September 11th, 2001 unfolded.
25 years later, Woo is a history instructor at the quasi-military school Mountaineer Challenge Academy in West Virginia. She recalls the harrowing experience as if it were yesterday.
“I remember my clerk coming through and saying nonchalantly, ‘they just bombed one of the towers, the Twin Towers.’ I didn’t think much of it

ARLINGTON, W.Va. — President Donald Trump has officially signed a bill named after a West Virginia native and World War II veteran into law.
Hershel “Woody” Williams
The Hershel “Woody” Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last month. With Trump’s signature on Thursday in Arlington, it brings into a law the construction of a monument in Washington, D.C. at the National Mall that would honor Medal of Honor recipients. Williams, a

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A night of prayer was held in Morgan County Thursday evening ahead of the 25th anniversary of September 11th, 2001.
The St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Berkeley Springs hosted its second-ever Blue Mass, a service praying for first responders.
Knights of Columbus Deputy Grand Knight Geoff Fox told WEPM that he pitched the Blue Mass idea after seeing it elsewhere.
“This is our second, we did one last year,” Fox said. “I had watched one of the stations down in D.C.,

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Monongalia County deputies have charged a man after a shots-fired call Thursday.
Deputies responded to a report of an argument between two men at a short-term rental on Chestnut Ridge Road at a few minutes after 10 a.m.. One of the men, later identified as Cameron Hall of Ohio, is accused of pulling a gun and hitting the victim in the face. During the fight, according to deputies, the weapon went off and grazed the victim in the shoulder before hitting a parked car.
No other

HAMLIN, W.Va. — More rural homes and businesses in West Virginia will soon be gaining internet connection.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey joined U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty, state broadband officials, and more for an announcement Thursday in Hamlin that expansion is coming to high-speed fiber broadband access across the Mountain State. The funding included $100 million in public and private investment.
Armstrong, a company already working on broadband expansion