MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University has a named a former executive at Twitter and Charles Schwab as the next chief information officer for the university.
Kimberly Clark
Kimberly Clark comes to Morgantown from Arizona State University where she served as the deputy chief information officer and chief digital transformation officer. She has also held senior technology leadership roles at Twitter and Charles Schwab.
“Like all industries, higher education is undergoing a digital

CLARKSBURG, W.Va.  — Violent crime, property crime, and drug overdose deaths across West Virginia have dropped dramatically in the past year, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and his administration said Tuesday.
Morrisey, State Police Superintendent Col. Jim Mitchell and others touted the improvements shown in the 2025 numbers released during a news conference in Clarksburg.
Morrisey said thanks to the efforts of local, state, and federal officers, the violent crime has dropped 5.6 percent. Aggravated

BERGOO, W.Va. — Webster County authorities have released the names of the man and woman killed in a UTV crash Saturday night near Bergoo.
Deputies said Richard Chandler, 43, of Hurricane, and Maggie Driggs, 24, of Charleston, died in the crash. A third person was injured in the wreck but was treated and released.
All three were ejected from the side-by-side when it went 75-feet over an embankment near 6989 Bergoo Road.
The wreck was reported at just before 7:30 p.m. Chandler and Driggs died at

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha County man charged with creating a shots-fired scare at Laidley Field in May received the maximum sentence Tuesday.
Jakai Harrison
Jakai Harrison, 20, of Charleston, was sentenced to five years in prison by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Tera Salango. Harrison was arrested not long after shots were heard outside of the stadium on May 2 as a track meet was happening.
Charleston police identified Harrison as a suspect and determined that the incident was unrelated to

WINFIELD, W.Va. — Putnam County Commission President Andy Skidmore said Tuesday the commission is going to take action on a resolution in connection with Google’s plans for a data center at its meeting later this month.
Andy Skidmore
“I think we plan to actually have, and it may not be the exact resolution, but put that resolution before us at the end of this month,” Skidmore said during Tuesday’s meeting in Winfield.
The proposed resolution was submitted to the commission last month by the

MADISON, W.Va. — A new trial date has been set for the Boone County woman charged in the death of her granddaughter.
Donna Stone (WCHS-TV)
Donna Stone will go on trial starting October 13 for charges of murder by a parent, guardian or custodian by refusal or failure to provide necessities and child neglect resulting in death. The trial date was set during Stone’s Tuesday appearance in Boone County Circuit Court.
The charges followed the death of 14-year-old Kyneddi Miller, Stone’s granddaughter.

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Mold in their current location is forcing the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office to move.
Morgan County Sheriff Johnnie Walter told the Panhandle News Network Tuesday their current building was remediated for mold before they moved into the facility in December 2019 but the ceiling back where the deputies sit recently started turning black.
He said no one is sick or showing any symptoms from mold exposure at this time.
Tuesday and Wednesday are moving days for the

SISSONVILLE, W.Va. — A work stoppage involving members of the Teamsters Union Local 175 and a Charleston area beer distributor appears no where near being resolved.
Drivers for the union have been off the job and on the picket line for more than 100 days. They are on strike against The Beverage Market and are ready to bargain for a new contract. However, Steve Day with the Teamsters said the company’s management appears to have no desire to resolve the dispute.
“The major issue is the company

A big hearing for consideration of the Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link Project, a high-voltage electrical line across several states, will go on as scheduled after an order by the West Virginia Public Service Commission.
Several participants in the case, led by PSC staff, had called for a delay in the hearing after proposed route changes for the project often called MARL affected several land owners who wouldn’t have been affected before.
The developer NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic and