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Former West Virginia State University basketball player Kendrick Leon Ward will spend two years in prison for distributing heroin.
U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says Ward sold heroin to a confidential informant near a dormitory on West Virginia State’s campus in Institute in 2013. The 25-year-old Oak Park, Michigan, resident pleaded guilty in September to distributing heroin within 1,000 feet of school property.
Goodwin says in a news release that Ward was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston.
Ward played in 27 games during the 2012-2013 season and averaged 4.5 points per game.
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The $26.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help construct the West Virginia State University Agriculture Complex that will house laboratory space for the university, as well as the state Department of Agriculture.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThey love West Virginia, but love alone may not be enough to keep them here. In the second of two Us & Them episodes, Trey Kay talks with young West Virginians who say they may need to leave in search of careers, community and a place where they can imagine their futures. Their decisions reveal what the Mountain State risks losing when young people cannot see a place for themselves at home.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsStories abound of people using large language models, colloquially referred to as artificial intelligence (AI), to write reports, only to discover that the computer used fake sources and made-up references. This interview explores the best way to use AI to get what you want – and not fabricated or false answers that seem real.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsArtificial intelligence, or AI, is a hot topic right now. It seems everyone is using it – even if they sometimes don’t realize they are. Professor Ali Al-Sinayyid, an assistant professor and director of the West Virginia State University Cybersecurity Innovation Center answers the question "What is it?"
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