TMS Headlines: September 5, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Stay informed on local issues on the Morning spiel brought
to you by Royal Water on WKMZ. All right, let's
get into it. Let's take a look at your local
news and sports headlines here on the Morning Spiale presented
by Royal Water Treatment. I want a three to three wkmz.

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Three Bridgeport residents were among more than seventy indicted by
the Harrison Kenny Grand Jury in September. Forty two year
old Lonnie A. Hill Junior was one of the seventy
facing two counts of gross child creating a substantial risk
of serious bodily injury or death. He's accused of leaving
children at a residence without any super supervision, both under
the age of five. Traffic delays on I sixty eight

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US nineteen over US one nineteen Overpass are officially under
way while the bridge deck gets replaced. Two lanes will
remain open each direction, but delays should be expected. Motorists
are asked to plan ahead. United Hospital Center officially open
the new WU Medicine Elkins Quarter Medical Center, which will
serve residents of Randolph County and the surrounding area. It
will offer family and preventive care rapid care, advanced imaging,

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and rotating specialty clinics. The state has officially submitted its
final proposal for broadband Equity and Access deployment funding. The
state is hoping to overcome multiple delays for this program
that could serve more than seventy three thousand households in
West Virginia. The final proposal, if approved, would grant the
state about one point two billion dollars in federal money
towards broadband access. State Senator Mike Stewart is one step

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closer to being confirmed as the top attorney for US
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. A confirmation vote has
not yet been scheduled, but he has passed out of committee.
There's more today at WV metro News dot com. The
State Supreme Court is prepping to review any intersection between
West Virginia's religious freedom law and its mandatory school vaccination law,
but not until at least early next year. Justice has

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issued a scheduling order in response to a request for
expedited review by lawyers for the state school board. There
is much more on that at WV metronews dot com,
as well as stories on the Peia finance issue, which
In fact, right now, the word is the agency is
actually doing okay, but there are still concerns ahead due
to the state of the US economy. Moving on to sports,

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West Virginia facing Ohio inside pednin Stadium Saturday afternoon, and
it'll be the first meeting between the two programs in
twenty four years, when Rich Rod was a first year
Mountaineer head coach. Rod has never faced Ohio in any
other circumstance, though he would have had he returned to
Jacksonville State for another season. They played Ohio in the
Cure Bowl. Greg Kerrey diagnosed what Ohio did to Jacksonville

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State in that game. You can read more about that
at the sports section of the website. High School Action
This evening, we'll have Bridgeport hosting Heritage Virginia right here
on one O three to three WKMZ. South Harrison faces
off with Lincoln for the first time in a decade
in Lost Creek. Here that game on Sky one oh
six to five dot com for South Harrison coverage ninety
three to five the FBY or WFBI dot com for

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Lincoln coverage. RCB will get Fairmont's senior coming off a
rare week one bye You can hear that game at
one O one three The Bear or one O one
three the Beear dot com and has always check out
the full schedule over at wv metronews dot com. They've
got the high school football ticker up right now. You
can also hear a recap of week one and a
preview of week two on the Friday Free for All.

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That is going to be up in podcast form later
this morning, so stick around for that. WVU Volleyball gets
a win in the fifth set over North Dakota. North
Dakota pushed the Mountaineers late, wqu able to get the
win fifteen to nine in that fifth set to win
their first match of the Mountaineer Invitational. WV will host
Liberty today, who beat Coppin State yesterday, and then the

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Mountaineers will wrap up the invitational hosting copp And State
Saturday afternoon. The Pirates apparently can't be stopped. Paul Skeene
struck out eight and allowed just three base runners in
six innings in a five to three win, as a
late Dodger rally fell short five to three. The final
schemes is now ten and nine. The Pirates get the
sweep over the Dodgers, and they're now thirteen games under
five hundred. Haavy won twelve of their last sixteen. The

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host Milwaukee for a three game series beginning today. First
pitch at six forty. Looking at your weather, cloudy today, sunny,
later high eighty two with some light wind tonight. As
we get into the second week of high school football,
temperature is gonna drop into the sixties, low sixty one.
And now we're expecting a possibility of rain during games.
And the question will be will we get lightning during

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the games. That's not clear. Probably will get an overnight
storm one way or another. Saturday could see some rain
and a thunderstorm. High sixty nine. Saturday night rain, low fifty.
Sunday sunny and cool, high seventy. And then to start
next week, looks like we'll have some sunshine with temperatures
in the seventies beginning Monday and Tuesday. All right, we're
gonna go ahead and get to break. We'll be right
back with Mike Austi from wv Sports now breaking down

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everything between WVU and Ohio. Stick around, the Mountaineers and
Bobcats is the topic next