Monongalia County News

How would you like to live in a location where unemployment is second lowest in the entire state? Out of 55 counties, no less? Well, if you should happen to call Marion County home, you are doing just that.

The Monongalia County Sheriff's Department is investigating an armed robbery at the Huntington Bank on Greenbag Road in Morgantown around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday.

A Morgantown woman is arrested for allegedly streaming a sexual video of her child online.

Monongalia County's five percent unemployment rate is the lowest in the state, and Millwright Local 17-55 can speculate as to why.

Seed sales are up in Monongalia County and that means more people will be canning the fruits and vegetables they're growing.

Workers have started repairing potholes in the area. Mountaineer Contractors has started milling parts of more than a dozen roads in Monongalia County for repaving.

Four transit agencies in West Virginia will share more than $4 million in federal stimulus funding awarded for improvements.

Debate Cancelled>>> A proposed debate between NASA Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen and Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship that was to take place this evening and air on West Media Stations around the state has been canceled.

Monongalia County sheriff's deputies were called to an armed robbery, early Wednesday morning, on Grafton Road.

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Monongalia County continues to have the state's lowest unemployment rate. County-by-county numbers released Monday by WORKFORCE West Virginia show Monongalia County's rate 4.7 percent.

Pocahontas County continues to have the highest unemployment rate in West Virginia, despite a decline of 2.8 percentage points in May.

Detectives with the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department are looking for two suspects in a burglary case.

A ceremony sealed the deal in Monongalia County, Thursday, that the search is on for a third circuit court judge.

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 ; 05:51 PM Post Comment Updated Tuesday, June 16, 2009 ; 07:45 PM Statistics show more police officers die from suicide than in the line of duty.

Authorities in Monongalia County found an 11-year-old boy, who went missing Wednesday afternoon.

State Police caught an escaped juvenile prisoner near Dorsey Lane in Morgantown.

Twenty contestants competing in the Miss West Virginia Scholarship Pageant arrived in Morgantown Saturday where they were quickly put to work.

Authorities in Monongalia County are on the lookout for an escaped prisoner. Westover Police say the prison, who is a juvenile, was being transported from Monongalia County Circuit Court to the North Central Regional Juvenile Center in Parkersburg, when he pried a door open while the van was stuck in traffic on Holland Avenue.

The 65th annual Miss West Virginia Scholarship Pageant is coming to Morgantown on June 20.