ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 5 -- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 11834456 B2, initially filed Jan. 26, 2022) developed by seven inventors John Mulcahy, Redwood City, California; Hassan Pajouhesh, Mountain View, California; George Miljanich, Redwood City, California; Anton Delwig, Albany, California; Jacob Beckley, Bozeman, Montana; Grant Masaaki Shibuya, South San Francisco, California; and Justin Du Bois, Me  more

FAIRMONT, West Virginia, Dec. 7 -- Fairmont State University issued the following news story: On November 30, Fairmont State welcomed over 100 students to campus for the annual SOAR Awards. The SOAR Awards are a series of events hosted across West Virginia and surrounding areas, where incoming freshmen who attend receive a $2,000 scholarship. The SOAR Awards were created with accessible higher education and student success in mind, a sentiment Interim Vice President of Student Success Alicia K  more

BECKLEY, West Virginia, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Will Thompson, issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: Jose Dominguez, 42, of Snowshoe, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on August 29, 2022, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by Dominguez in Beckley. During the traffic stop, a police K-9 alerted to th  more