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House public hearing on campus carry bill draws 38 opponents, 2 supporters

MORGANTOWN — The House Judiciary Committee's Wednesday morning public hearing on the campus carry bill drew 40 people; 38 of whom opposed it. Most of the opponents to SB 10 were university students, faculty and administrators. Mary Ellen O'Farrell, speaking on her own behalf, summed ...

Morgantown high schoolers named finalists in MIT tech competition

The collapse of a fully occupied condominium in Florida two years ago. The major earthquake that shook parts of Syria and Turkey two weeks ago. No matter how coordinated rescue efforts are at such disaster sites, there’s still lot of chaos involved, as volunteers literally dig through rubble with their hands in the desperate search for survivors. Two Morgantown high school students want to mechanize such rescue and recovery efforts in the future — and they just got some academic and financial help from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along the way. Anna Brusoe, ...

Third Grade Success Act, other education bills passed in Senate and House

MORGANTOWN — The state Senate's Third Grade Success Act topped a list of education- and child-related bills passed in the Senate and House on Tuesday. SB 274 is the Success Act. Its overarching purpose is to develop a statewide, multi-tiered approach to reading and math ...

WVU students gather to air concerns about campus carry legislation

MORGANTOWN — A group of WVU students gathered in front of the Mountainlair on Monday to voice their concerns about the campus carry bill — SB 10 — working its way through the Legislature. “We feel very strongly this would be a threat to student safety,” said Keeley Wildman, a ...