MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — The Point-in-Time Count (PIT) is a federally required, annual count of people experiencing homelessness, taking place this year this Wednesday and Thursday.
The data collected during PIT is what HUD uses to determine funding levels, program priorities, and resource allocation for communities across the state.
“We do it every year towards the end of January and the goal of it is to determine how many we have experiencing homelessness in every county,” Berkeley County

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito sat down with restaurants from across West Virginia last week to discuss how the Working Families Tax Cut Act will be helping them.
Shelley Moore Capito
The cut, which is part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, extends tax benefits to working American families, such as no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.
Capito joined with National Restaurant Association for roundtable discussion, the West Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Senate has passed a bill that would add five years to the minimum sentence for someone convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in West Virginia.
SB 137 increases the minimum sentence for second-degree murder from 10 years to 15 years and the maximum from 40 years to 60 years and raises the penalty for voluntary manslaughter from a range of three to 15 years to a range of five to 25 years.
The bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Patrick Morrisey says the state Department of Human Services is investigating a Taylor County case that resulted in the death of an 11-year-old girl.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey
“The Department of Human Services has opened up an investigation,” Morrisey said during a media briefing last Friday. “We’re looking at all of the details around (the death). As they go through that process they want to be diligent.”
Miana Moran died in February 2025. Her primary caregiver, Shannon

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — TMC Technologies has been awarded a five-year $84 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide technical support and development to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Division Dahlgren in Virginia.
Jeff Edgell
President and CEO Jeff Edgell said in 2018 TMC Technologies acquired Mountain State Information Systems in Dahlgren, establishing a foothold. This contract involves Track Management—tracking and classifying data attributes from opposing and friendly surface force elements