The family of Doug Skaff, a former West Virginia lawmaker who died in a vehicle accident earlier this year, has created a ...

The Douglas J. Skaff Jr. Mountaineer Spirit Scholarship will be awarded to a West Virginia resident undergraduate enrolled in ...

Skaff Jr. Mountaineer Spirit Scholarship will be offered to business and economic students involved with student government or the Mountaineer Maniacs, according to a news release from the West ...

Doug Skaff “It just speaks to Doug’s character, and it speaks to the amount of influence that Doug had over so many people in this area and over the entire state of West Virginia,” Barrett said.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Doug Skaff Jr., a West Virginia newspaper executive and former Democratic legislative leader , died Tuesday following an accident on Interstate 79. He was 48.