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The American Lung Association reports high levels of Radon Gas detected in 28.5% of West Virginia homes – WOAY-TV
Charleston, WV (WOAY) – The American Lung Association encourages West Virginians to test their homes for radon in honor of National Radon Action Month.
According to the latest State of Lung Cancer report, radon was detected at high levels in 28.5% of West Virginia homes.
Radon is an invisible, odorless gas that transfers from soil and collects in enclosed spaces.
The gas is also the second leading cause of lung cancer and the number one cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.
Lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer type in the mountain state.
If you detect high levels in your home, you should contact a professional to install a radon mitigation system.
West Virginia’s Office of Environmental Health Services offers free radon testing kits for residents to test for radioactive gas in their homes.
You can request a free radon test kit by emailing Radon@wv.gov or calling (304) 352-5039.
For additional local resources, visit oehs.wvdhhr.org.
If you want to learn more about Radon Gas, The American Lung Association offers a free Radon basics course at Lung.org.
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The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia’s governor said Friday.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe’s head wound is slowly improving and “he’s beginning to ‘look more like himself,’” Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement quoting Wolfe’s parents.
Wolfe and Spc. Sarah Beckstrom were ambushed as they patrolled a subway station three blocks from the White House on Nov. 26. Beckstrom died from her injuries the next day.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who was also shot during the confrontation, has been charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Wolfe’s family expects he will be in acute care for another two or three weeks, the governor said.
He asked that West Virginians and Americans continue to pray for Wolfe.
A vigil was scheduled to be held for him at his alma mater, Musselman High School, in Berkeley County on Friday night.
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Wolfe, 24, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, about 75 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., was assigned to the Force Support Squadron, 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard.
He has worked as a lineman with Frontier Communications since early 2023, the company said.
Wolfe joined the National Guard in 2019, the year he graduated from high school.
At Musselman, Wolfe was an engaged and high-achieving student “who embodied the Applemen spirit, contributing positively to our school community both academically and athletically,” Principal Alicia Riggleman said.
Wolfe and Beckstrom were among more than 2,000 troops deployed to the nation’s capital as part of President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting mission that involved taking over the local police department.
One thing is clear when it comes to the future of West Virginia football — this is going to be built the old school way, for the most part. And no, Rich Rodriguez isn’t going to go full Dabo Swinney and completely neglect the transfer portal (I’m not sure where that narrative comes from), but there will be a heavy emphasis on the high school ranks, as there should be.
“The idea would be if you had a choice to get the same guy player-wise that’s got one year left or four years left, you’re going to take the guy that’s got four years left because he’ll grow in your program,” Rodriguez said on Wednesday. “Now, if the guy that’s got one year left or two years left and is a whole lot better player or is more ready to go right now than the other guy, then you’ve got to take that guy. The ideal thing would be to get 2:1 or 3:1 freshman or JC guys compared to the one-year or two-year guys. It’s probably a lesser cost to get the high school guy because they’re unproven at the college level. The portal guys seem to be more expensive, and you’ve got to pay more to get the true experienced, plug-and-play guy out of the portal.”
WVU took a large freshman class because it had to. They were losing 40-some seniors, and you’re not going to be able to go into the transfer portal and fill a bunch of those vacancies, while addressing the depth at every position. Doing so would put you in a very similar situation to last offseason, where you’re spreading your dollars thin, taking yourself out of the running for top-tier talent in the portal.
The other part of this is this group making up for a very watered-down recruiting class a year ago. Yes, the recruiting staff that’s no longer here did a great job of getting things to the finish line with the majority of the class, but a good chunk of those players either ended up requesting release from their NLI (National Letter of Intent) or entered the transfer portal after spring ball, leaving a small group of freshmen.
Rodriguez isn’t going to sign 40 freshmen every year, mainly because you simply can’t, as there are roster limits in place. This class is going to be the group that truly sets the foundation. If they can hit on 15 to 20 of these kids, the rebuild will be accelerated. That sounds like a small number, but it’s really not. Signing 15 players who have starting potential is really strong for a singular recruiting class.
Rodriguez does plan to add somewhere in he neighborhood of 12-15 transfers in January, but with such a large percentage of the roster being freshmen, some more patience will be required in 2026.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WVVA) – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Army Pfc. Richard P. Summers, 19, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, who was killed during World War II, was accounted for on September 10th, 2025.
Summers’s family has received a full briefing on his identification, and officials have released additional details with the family’s permission. Summers was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. He was reportedly killed in action Jan. 6, 1945, while his unit was on patrol near Wildenguth, France. The Germans did not report Summers as a prisoner of war and his remains were not immediately recovered.
Between July 1947 and July 1950, the American Graves Registration Command searched the Wildenguth area and recovered four sets of unknown remains. One set, designated X-5571 Neuville, was recovered from the Wildenguth Forest and interred at the U.S. Military Cemetery Neuville-en-Condroz in Belgium.
In August 2022 the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed Unknown X-5571 Neuville from the Ardennes American Cemetery and transferred the remains to the DPAA Laboratory for analysis. To confirm Summers’s identity, DPAA scientists used dental and anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System contributed mitochondrial DNA analysis and nuclear single nucleotide polymorphism testing.
Summers’s name appears on the Walls of the Missing at Epinal American Cemetery in Dinozé, France. A rosette will be placed beside his name to indicate he has been accounted for. Burial arrangements will be announced at a later date.
Family and funeral inquiries may be directed to the Army Casualty Office at (800) 892-2490. For more on DPAA’s mission to account for missing service members, visit this website.
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