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Monongalia County to offer free naloxone kits next week

The Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT) will offer free two-dose naloxone kits at several locations across Morgantown as part of their Save a Life event on May 7.

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clothes in the trunk and left skylar there. did rachel express how she felt when the crime was over? >> i just remember her saying that this is something she wanted to get done before she went to church camp. >> how did you feel when she said, i had to get this done before church camp? >> what are we dealing with? >> did you ask rachel why? why did you two do this? >> she would not give us any specific details, other than they just didn't like her. then when i asked her, what do you mean you didn't like her? clarify that. she said, oh, nothing. we just didn't like her. >> after telling police the story, rachel led authorities down that lonely road past blacksville to a spot just across the pennsylvania border. there they eventually found a few scattered human remains and sent them to a lab for testing. >> i just couldn't imagine the pain and suffering and the fear she went through being alone in that place with her two best friends.

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investigators hatched a plan. rachel would invite sheila to her house. as hidden cameras rolled, she would try to get sheila to incriminate herself. >> we were close by in case something happened. >> sheila did come over. police didn't record anything to pin sheila to the crime. >> the girls did not disclose anything specific. they were just very casual. >> a few days later, the police went to sheila's house with a warrant. >> we seized every kitchen knife we could find. the fbi had seized sheila's car and they were able to find presence of dna in the trunk. >> dna in sheila's trunk. if it proved to be skylar's, it would be critical to gaskins'case. a direct link. connecting the girls to skylar's death. they shipped the sample off to the lab and waited. meanwhile, gaskins got a positive i.d. on the human remains found out past blacksville. it was skylar. >> the search for monengala

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they picked skylar up, drove around morgantown, smoked a little pot, and dropped her off a few blocks from home. >> it was like a recording with these two. >> in the meantime, the officers had begun to collect physical evidence, and it didn't match up with the story the girls had been telling. surveillance video from a convenience store put the girls'car not heading east as they had said, but heading west towards blacksville. and the girls'phone records from that night showed rachel's phone pinging off a cell tower in blacksville. >> that was an aha moment. finally, we have something to go on that's different from their story. >> now even skylar's parents joined the chorus of people trying to get the girls to talk. >> i started posting on facebook, things about karma, karma will get you, you can't hide. we were pushing. we were pushing the girls to get them to say what happened.

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how can we help these girls? >> skylar's family friend morgan lawrence was upset too. she was at camp when she read on facebook that skylar was missing. how worried were you? >> sick to my stomach worried. >> so was officer coalbank. she was at it nonstop. >> i'd come back to the office in the evenings, watching the video, getting facebook records. >> she got swamped with tips saying they'd seen skylar from monicatown to new york to california. each sighting was a dead end. at the same time, coalbank pulled skylar's records. what she found was ominous. skylar wasn't using her cell phone or her atm card. coalbank now had serious doubts skylar had run away. >> usually runaways, they take items with them they want, especially if she had contacts or glasses. she didn't take that stuff with her. >> then police got an important new lead in the case. there had been two bank robberies in the nearby town of blacksville.

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>> by late november, the pressure seemed to be taking its toll on rachel. in an interview, she surprised police by changing her story, admitting for the first time that they did drive to blacksville that night and that's where skylar told them to let her out of the car. blacksville, where those bank robberies had happened. the next day, sheila changed her story to say the same thing. >> that must have been a big red flag for you? >> absolutely. >> at school, kids say rachel was increasingly rattled. >> rachel seemed distressed. she seemed like she was very upset over something. i mean, this was eating at her heart. >> rachel shoaf was about to crack. coming up -- >> please hurry. >> an emergency at home. and an interview with police. what exactly was rachel shoaf about to reveal? >> we were speechless. >> when "dateline" continues. is koli. my foster fail (laughs). when i first started fostering koli

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Bloom: Monongalia County a candidate for battery plant

Bloom: Monongalia County a candidate for battery plant
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This week in West Virginia history

CHARLESTON – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

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This week in West Virginia history

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

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This week in West Virginia history

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

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