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Two-day Christmas event returns to Charleston this weekend

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Holly Jolly Brawley, the two-day holiday festival, returns to the capital city for its fifth year this Friday and Saturday.
The festival, which began in 2020, features live music, a holiday shopping village, and fun activities for families.
Festivities will get underway at 12 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m. on both days. A kids’ zone on Capitol Street and the shopping village on Summers Street will be open for the entire festival.
They will have The Unit performing on Friday

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West Virginia malls ready for Black Friday, Christmas shopping season

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Gibson looking for more polished product in regular season finale against Georgia Southern

— By Bill Cornwell
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Tony Gibson built a roster nearly from scratch after accepting the Thundering Herd head coaching job 11 months ago.
The 72 new players Gibson and his staff brought into the MU program hope to gain bowl eligibility with a win on Saturday as Georgia Southern visits for a Sun Belt Conference game that marks the regular season finale for both teams and the season finale for one.
Kickoff at Joan C. Edwards Stadium is set for 1:30 p.m., and the matchup can be

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Setting the scene for the Class A semifinals in Wheeling and Blacksville

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Greg Carey and Joe Brocato conclude their state semifinal weekend game previews, taking a look at the Class A contests:
No. 4 Pendleton County (10-2) at No. 1 Wheeling Central Catholic (8-2)
No. 7 Cameron (8-3) at No. 3 Clay-Battelle (11-1)
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MetroNews – The Weekend (November 27)

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Joe Brocato previews the final weekend of the college football regular season and the semifinal rounds of the high school football playoffs in this edition of “MetroNews – The Weekend”.
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West Virginia National Guard shooting victims identified as Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe

Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, were identified as the two members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro identified the two at a news conference Thursday.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Thankful for William Bradford

TJ Meadows · Thankful for William Bradford
This week, with so much division in our own politics, I found myself looking back four hundred years to a leader who held a fragile community together — William Bradford, the longtime governor of Plymouth Colony.
Most of us know the broad outlines of the Pilgrim story: the Mayflower, the brutal first winter, maybe the Thanksgiving pageant we sat through in school. But behind that simplified version stands Bradford — a man whose discipline, humility, and

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