WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill establishing permanent daylight saving time is headed to the U.S. Senate after passage in the House of Representatives, but Senator Shelley Moore Capito questions what the potential law would mean for school children.
As the Sunshine Protection Act moves forward, Capito expressed safety concerns related to the possibility of children in northern states traveling to school before sunrise.
Shelley Moore Capito
“If we eliminate changing our clocks, in certain areas of the

MILTON, W.Va – Two people are recovering after being taken to the hospital following a house fire in Milton on Saturday.
According to Cabell County dispatchers, the blaze began just before 3 p.m. in the 100 block of Trenol Road and was brought under control after close to two and a half hours. Crews continued working on-site to extinguish hot spots.
U.S. Route 60 in the immediate area was closed in both directions so crews could bring water to the house, but the roadway is fully reopened.
The

VIENNA, W.Va – Three people face charges after authorities seized approximately 37 grams of fentanyl in Vienna on Thursday.
Steven Chancey, 58, of Vienna, Jayden Perkins, 23, of Akron, Ohio, and Leeanna Higgins, 24, of Akron, Ohio, were arrested after the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force, the Vienna Police Special Response Team, and the Wood County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at a home on 7th Street.
According to police, officers found suspected fentanyl inside a toilet after

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Both the Berkeley and Morgan County health departments are responding to what can best be described as a bad tick season.
Epidemiologist Robert Deener said it’s a bad year.
“I’ve spoken to a couple people and during some of my investigations and sometimes they mentioned they found 10 on them,” Deener said recently on Panhandle Live on WEPM Radio in Martinsburg.
Deener said ticks carry dangerous diseases.
“You’re talking about Lyme disease, you’re talking about Rocky Mountain

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office is providing answers to questions about its use of Flock security cameras.
Chief Deputy Mark Ralston said in a Friday afternoon meeting with reporters, the cameras are only activated when a license number or vehicle type matches a hot list.
Ralston said even after the notification the deputies are required to investigate the “hit” to be certain it is indeed an actual crime or incident.
None of the information collected is personal in

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Criminal charges against a fired Ruby Memorial Hospital doctor will be heading straight to a Monongalia County grand jury after he waived his preliminary hearing in magistrate court that was scheduled to take place Monday morning.
Dr. Lance Parks
Lance Parks, who is currently free on bond, was charged after police allege he planted two recording devices in a pair of bathrooms at Ruby.
Parks faces multiple misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy and a felony count of

MIDDLEWAY, W.Va. — Two historic preservation organizations have entered a legal battle over a proposed industrial development near one of West Virginia’s oldest historic communities.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the state’s Supreme Court of Appeals to uphold the Jefferson County Planning Commission’s rejection of a controversial water bottling facility.
The brief argued that the Jefferson County