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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Supplemental food benefits will not be issued for November due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, and food banks and other local non-profits are bracing for what’s to come.
“The unknown makes people nervous and anxious,” said John Roberts with Mountain Mission in Charleston.
“We know about the shutdown, we know about the SNAP benefit reduction and all of that, but we don’t know how everything is going to play out. You have to plan for the worst and then pray for the

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Around 1,600 students from several different counties were bussed to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center Wednesday to take part in CAMC’s annual Career Healthcare Showcase.
CAMC employees set up over 40 themed booths to show students the many pathways and programs offered in their area.
“We are showing them that there are careers in West Virginia. They don’t have to move out of state,” said Lauren Lane, a CAMC employee who helped organize the showcase.
The showcase

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the first director of the newly created Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship at West Virginia University will be Patrick Miller, an associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne.
Gov. Patrick Morrisey
“Dr. Miller and the Washington Center are going to push back against the woke ideology that’s infected our schools, help return higher education to its true purpose,” Morrisey said.
“The Washington Center is going to educate and inform but, most

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The president of the WVU Health System says a $28 million gift to WVU Medicine Children’s will help save lives.
Dr. Michael Grace
Dr. Michael Grace said the gift from entrepreneur, philanthropist, and civic leader Thomas Golisano is transformational.
“He saw in us a mission-driven organization much in the way of how he himself is philanthropic and decided to do good things for children,” Grace said Wednesday on MetroNews “Talkline.”
The name of WVU Medicine Children’s is

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The torch has been passed in one of the nation’s best known and longest standing labor organizations. Brian Sanson, a native of St. Albans, West Virginia has become the new President of the United Mine Workers of America. Sanson was sworn in as the 16th President of the union at the UMWA Special Convention in St. Louis on Wednesday.
UMWA President Brian Sanson PHOTO: UMWA
He replaces longtime union head Cecil Roberts, a native of Cabin Creek, West Virginia.
“You can’t replace a

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –  Testimony stretches into a third day in the trial of Michael Smith, the Kanawha County man accused of murdering Jackson County resident Cheyenne Johnson and then dumping her body in a well near Sissonville.
Smith is charged with first-degree murder, concealment of a dead body, and the use of a firearm during a felony in connection with the death of Johnson, who was reported missing in 2021, and the investigation led to the home of Virginia Smith, with whom Michael Smith was

OAK HILL, W.Va. — A Fayette County school administrator is free on bond after being named in more than two dozen criminal counts linked to alleged fraud and embezzlement.
West Virginia State Police troopers have charged Oak Hill Middle School Principal Chad Quesenberry.
He’s charged with 13 counts of access of device fraud.
State police list the following charges:
13 counts of access device fraud
12 counts of a public employee falsifying account records
1 count of embezzlement
1 count of

HANDLEY, W.Va. — A former Kanawha County sheriff’s deputy is charged with embezzling approximately $95.000 as treasurer of the Handley Volunteer Fire Department.
Robbie Evans (WVRJA)
Robbie Evans, 59, was charged this week after what the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department describes as a thorough investigation.
Evans allegedly used a debit card to withdraw the money from ATMs from January 2023 to June 2025 when possession of a debit card.
Investigators also determined Evans put cash into his own