Monongalia County, WV

MORGANTOWN – Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed the discovery of a body along Dug Hill Road just outside of Morgantown. Investigators from the sheriff’s department and state medical examiner’s office were dispatched Thursday afternoon and the remains in such a state that making an positive identification or even determining the individual’s gender was impossible. Detectives say the individual was wearing a Los Angles Lakers jersey with black sweatpants and appeared to have had dreadlocks.

Monongalia County, W.Va (WDTV) - The Monongalia County Sheriff’s office is investigating human remains found on Dug Hill Road Thursday. The remains were sent to the WV State Medical Examiner’s Office in Charleston for identification. Because of the state of the remains, medical examiners were not able to determine the...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Monongalia County jury has found a Fairmont man guilty on charges related to the shooting death of a West Virginia University student. It took jury members less than two hours to convict 21-year-old Shaundarius Reeder of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Reeder and Terrell...

MORGANTOWN – Blowback is growing against an ordinance unanimously approved by the Monongalia County Board of Health, imposing regulations on medical cannabis dispensaries beyond what is outlined in state code. Legislation approved earlier this year might give the county commission authority to review and have the ultimate say on the controversial rules.

SHEPHERDSTOWN — After all the debris has fallen back to earth and the franchises have been winnowed away in professional baseball, it turns out that Morgantown is one of the partial survivors. What the Monongalia County people have left for 2021 is not professional baseball, per se, at their comfortable...

A Murray-owned longwall coal mine based near Brave that straddles the Pennsylvania-West Virginia state line will close later this summer. Monongalia County Resources Inc. filed a WARN notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry this month announcing it will lay off 180 workers as it permanently closes the former Blacksville No. 2 mine, which is located in Greene and Monongalia counties.

BLACKSVILLE, W.Va (WDTV) - The Monongalia County mine in Blacksville is set to close and many people are expected to lose their jobs. Monongalia County Coal Resources Inc. filed a warn notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and industry stating that it will be permanently closing the Monongalia County Mine, as well as the preparation plant and other facilities associated with the mine.

Donna Talerico calls it a shot of normalcy for the coming school year. Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia. You have reached content available exclusively to Dominion Post subscribers.

Mylan Pharmaceuticals was a West Virginia success story thanks to the dedication of the late founder Milan Puskar and thousands of workers over the years. But with Puskar’s death 10 years ago and the ever-shifting global scope of pharmaceutical manufacturing, the Morgantown facility Puskar was once so proud of is about to become a shell of its former self.

Unfortunately, we are used to bad economic news in West Virginia. Just this week, Monongalia County Resources announced the pending shutdown of an underground coal mine and prep plant near Blacksville. About 180 employees will lose their jobs. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical plant in Morgantown, formerly owned by Mylan and now...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - Women United, an affinity group of United Way of Monongalia and Preston counties, is hard at work to advocate for empowerment and literacy across the region. Co-chairs Sabrina Cave and Tina Spangler spoke about one of their programs as well as an upcoming event. One project...

Unfortunately, we are used to bad economic news in West Virginia. Just this week, Monongalia County Resources announced t. You have reached content available exclusively to Dominion Post subscribers.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The former Blacksville No. 2 Mine in Monongalia County is scheduled to cease operations later this year, resulting in the layoffs of 180 workers. Monongalia County Resources, Inc. has filed a WARN Notice with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry stating the underground mine and prep plant will be shut down in two stages in August and September. The complex along the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border is owned by American Consolidated Natural Resources, Inc. the company that took over following Murray Energy’s bankruptcy.