By Megan Funkhouser and Dustin Hooks Among the hustle and bustle of one of Morgantown’s busiest roadways sits the Morgantown Salvation Army. Two buildings, located on University Avenue, house the Corps church, soup kitchen and thrift store. The Salvation Army is perhaps most recognized in...
By Megan Funkhouser and Dustin Hooks With his shaved head and gauged ear lobes, Neale Hoerle looks more like someone who hurts bad guys in movies than a man devoted to helping children. Hoerle is a Jiu Jitsu champion and the owner of Anu Academy...
By: Katiann Marshall, Zach Cumberland, Kyleigh Razmic When Harshal Patel, a senior engineering major at West Virginia University, goes to sleep, he keeps his cell phone on next to his bed. He likes to use the phone as an alarm but when he gets a...
By Sarah Davis, Miriah Lee and Bryan Popkin Doru Pacurari, a native of Romania, arrived in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1998 with a dream and a student visa. After gaining admission into the forestry program at West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture, he began...
By: Karissa Blackburn, Kirk Auvil, and Rachel Simpkins The recent slaying of Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum brought southern West Virginia’s drug problem into the national spotlight. Crum had vowed to eradicate the problem of prescription drug abuse in Mingo County and when he was killed in...
By Kirk Auvil, Matthew Fouty and Kelly Dugan The many potholes pitting Morgantown’s streets and its crumbling sidewalks often shock newcomers to the city. Even city officials acknowledge that the roads, sidewalks and bridges are in desperate need of repair. But they say they don’t...
By: Jesse Tabit and Kyleigh Razmic After 9/11, David Marnell, a senior at West Virginia University, dropped out of school and joined the U.S. Army. He saw three tours of duty in Iraq as a squad leader before returning to WVU in 2012 to finish...
By Carly Runquist, Zach Cumberland and Alyssa Casalino When Dan Stern was 14, his father, from Princeton, West Virginia, died a horrible death from lung cancer after years of smoking cigarettes all day, every day. Stern swore he would never take up the habit himself....
By: Shishira Sreenivas, Chelsey Corroto, and Frances Silva MORGANTOWN––The Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center is home to hundreds of cats and dogs that are dropped off, picked up or found by the dog wardens. Charles “Tiny” King has been at the center for eight years...
By William Rochinich, Bree Marquand, Kamala Gopalakrishnan MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — High school and middle school athletes who may have suffered concussions must pass a test before retaking the field, state officials say. The efforts to encourage testing began in 2008 and are part of an...
By Marisa Matyola, Samantha Redd and Curtis Tenney Morgantown, W.Va.— The more music we play, the more people will dance, and then those people will go teach others to dance. Suddenly the whole world will be dancing. Suddenly the world will be a much better...
By Sean Cahill, Allison Lee, and Alexis Taylor Joe DesNoyer decided to attend West Virginia University not for its academics or its party school reputation; he came to join the WVU Men’s Rugby Team, a club sport. “There aren’t really rugby varsity teams in the...
