Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–The state Board of Education stands behind its Superintendent in the controversy over vaccine exemptions
–Plus two more school systems are placed under state control
–RFK Jr. confirms 110 jobs returning to NIOSH in Morgantown
–in Sports: WVU baseball in a position to nail down another Big XII title tonight in Morgantown
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Area activists, healthcare professionals, and Morgantown area residents who could be affected by potential changes in Medicaid decided to voice their frustrations outside of the area office of U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito Wednesday night.
Representatives with the West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WV CAG), along with mental healthcare and drug rehabilitation professionals as well as current enrollees in Medicaid, were on hand along the Monongahela River Trail in

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The former supervisor of corrections officers at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail will be sentenced on Thursday.
Chad Lester, 35, was a Lieutenant in the Southern Regional Jail when inmate Quantez Burks, 37, was beaten to death by officers in an interview room on March 1, 2022. The room reportedly had no cameras.
A federal jury in Charleston convicted Lester of trying to cover up the death of Burks, who was a pretrial defendant. Burks had only been in the jail for

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Charleston man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to harming a newborn.
David Allen Davis (WVDOC)
David Allen Davis, 23, was sentenced Wednesday to a maximum of five years in prison, followed by 50 years of extended supervision on charges of child neglect creating a substantial risk of injury or death.
Prosecutors say David admitted to tossing a five-week-old baby onto a couch, which resulted in the baby hitting her head on the fram of a couch. The child was

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. –The U.S. Marshals Service have apprehended a man who was wanted after he and two others allegedly beat a man in Morgantown.
Julian Christopher Reese
Julian Christopher Reese, 21, of Clarksburg, is wanted for malicious wounding and conspiracy. Reese, along with Zaylen W. Payne and Jadrian R. Boyd, both of Clarksburg, were identified as the suspects of a Sunday altercation on Morgantown’s High Street where a male victim was severely injured.
According to police, Reese punched

LESAGE, W.Va. –A suspicious fire at a church in Cabell County is under investigation by the West Virginia Fire Marshal’s Office.
According to a preliminary investigation a storage building at Brighter Day Ministry, which is located along Nine Mile Road in Lesage, was set on fire Wednesday afternoon.
No injuries have been reported.
 
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