WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House. The entire department has been shut ...
PARKERSBURG – The changing face of higher education is starting to recognize what community colleges bring to overall student outcomes, the president of WVU Parkersburg told the Board of Governors. WVU Parkersburg President Torie Jackson spoke Tuesday about how there is a growing recognition ...
CHARLESTON – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and her Senate colleagues pulled an all-nighter, voting early Thursday morning on a reconciliation package to keep essential immigration enforcement and border protection funded. The U.S. Senate voted 50-48 just after 3:35 a.m. Thursday for the ...
MARIETTA - Energy development, environmental impact and the future of workforce training in Appalachia were the focus of a symposium hosted Tuesday by Marietta College’s Center for Earth, Energy and Environment. Industry leaders, policymakers and educators discussed how evolving energy ...
MORGANTOWN – An eagle chick from Pennsylvania is resting and recuperating at the Cheat Lake-based Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia after an emergency weekend surgery to extract a fishhook from its stomach. The bird – known as USS11 – is part of a family of eagles – two parents ...
A local writer has taken his experiences from real life and the make-believe world in role-playing games to write his first book intended for teens and young adults. “Defenders of Zzzodd” by Ty Evan Smith, a 2000 graduate of Parkersburg South High School, is the story about 15-year-old ...