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Mark and Michelle Laverman planned on visiting the unique island of Socotra for a week. Destabilizing events in the region ...

A Morgantown man who previously admitted to harboring illegal aliens and spoofing their social security numbers has taken a plea deal, court documents say.

What’s past is prologue,” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” a thought profound enough to be engraved on the ...

Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP and other social welfare programs exist to give our society's most vulnerable people assistance to ...