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CALHOUN COUNTY, W.Va. — The former Calhoun County commissioner and elementary school teacher facing a number of child sexual abuse charged had his case sent to circuit court.
Jacob McCumbers
Jacob McCumbers, 39, of Arnoldsburg, appeared in court Monday for a preliminary hearing, where special magistrate Tamra Milhoan found probable cause to send the case to Calhoun County Circuit Court.
McCumbers, the former teacher at Arnoldsburg Elementary School, is facing 50 counts of sexual abuse by a

Mandy Weirich
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Faculty Senate met Monday and raised concerns about campus safety.
Mandy Weirich, Online Program Coordinator, Gerontology Program Coordinator, and Clinical Instructor from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, brought up classroom and building security issues that included a lack of cameras and the ability to shelter in place in the event of an active shooter.
“I think every instructor in every classroom should have the ability to

LOST CREEK, W.Va. — A fatality has been confirmed in the I-79 tractor-trailer crash near Lost Creek Sunday.
West Virginia State Police have identified the victim as the driver of the rig as Ronald Porrin.
Trooper said Porrin was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
The accident was reported at mile marker 110 on the southbound side of I-79 at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. The tanker truck traveled off the right side of the roadway and over an embankment.
Porrin was the lone occupant

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. –– Since 2011, the City of Morgantown Urban Archery Deer Hunt has provided hundreds of pounds of ground venison to area churches and organizations that support feeding programs in the county.
Last week, the group of volunteer hunters made a donation of 776 pounds of ground venison just as the government shutdown claimed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments as a casualty.
Data from the United Way of Monongalia and Preston County shows more than 55,000

A judge again held off on determining whether Gov. Patrick Morrisey is operating within his authority to deploy the West Virginia National Guard to patrol Washington, D.C.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Richard Lindsay heard about two hours of testimony Monday morning, but delayed making a final ruling until another hearing that he set for 2 p.m. Nov. 10. The judge already heard about an hour of testimony Oct. 24.
Richard Lindsay
“And believe me, this court usually does not do this. I want finality just

CLAY, W.Va. — State Police have released the name of a Clay County man killed in a weekend car wreck. He’s identified as Charles Morris, 91, of Lizemores.
According to troopers Morris was a passenger in a vehicle travelling on Route 16 near Lizemores Saturday afternoon. The driver of his car went left of center and struck an oncoming vehicle head-on.
The driver and a passenger in the other vehicle were both severely injured. Those two were flown by HealthNet to CAMC General Hospital where they

West Virginia’s state government continues to bring in more tax dollars than anticipated.
October General Revenue Fund collections exceeded estimates by nearly $42 million, representing a 6% increase from the previous October, according to monthly numbers released today.
Cumulative year-to-date collections are also significantly above estimates and ahead of the prior year’s figures, a trend Gov. Patrick Morrisey attributed to growth in consumer spending and personal income.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey