radioNOVO News WV News Roundup for September 15, 2026

Good morning. Here is your West Virginia State Roundup.In sports and legal news, former West Virginia University star running back and current assistant coach Noel Devine is facing a felony strangulation charge following his arrest over the weekend. Devine pleaded not guilty and has been suspended indefinitely by head coach Rich Rodriguez. He remains held on forty thousand dollars bail with a preliminary hearing scheduled for September twenty-third.In healthcare development, Harrison County is set to open a new thirty-million-dollar hospital at the end of the month. The Vandalia Health Mon Harrison Neighborhood Hospital at Charles Pointe features a forty-thousand-square-foot facility with nine emergency beds, ten inpatient beds, and full outpatient imaging services. A official ribbon cutting is scheduled for September twenty-second.In federal legislation, President Trump signed Senator Jim Justice's bill into law establishing the Hershel "Woody" Williams National Medal of Honor Monument on the National Mall. Named in honor of the late West Virginia World War Two veteran, the privately funded memorial will stand near the Lincoln Memorial.In education news, West Virginia University has launched "W-V-U Express," a direct admission program waiving application fees for qualifying high school seniors in Kanawha and Monongalia counties who maintain a three-point-eight G-P-A. Meanwhile in Southern West Virginia, Logan County parents are expressing frustration after learning via automated phone calls that fire-damaged Logan Elementary School will permanently close, as district leaders petition the state for funds to expand Logan Middle School instead.In state law enforcement news, West Virginia State Police have launched an investigation into potential fraudulent financial activity involving the Brooke Hancock Family Resource Network following the non-profit’s sudden closure last month.And in college football, Marshall rallied past Middle Tennessee twenty-eight to twenty-six on Saturday, powered by a key fourth-quarter fumble recovery touchdown by Xayvion Turner-Bradshaw.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.