Breaking News

Drug task force recovers over two pounds of meth inside Morgantown residence

Three men are facing felony drug charges after Mon Metro Drug Task Force investigators found large amounts of methamphetamine inside a Monongalia County residence. On Jan. 19, task force agents conducted a warranted search of a residence at 1028 River Road in Morgantown to locate evidence ...

106 indicted by Mon County grand jury

The first Monongalia County grand jury of 2023 returned 106 indictments, significantly lower than the 150 indicted in September 2022. An indictment is not a finding of guilt, but a formal felony charge issued by a grand jury stating there is enough evidence the defendant committed the ...

In West Virginia’s jails ‘we’re working our people to death’ and they’re quitting

An alarming message about staffing in West Virginia’s jails came Thursday. “We’re absolutely working our people to death, and they’re quitting because of that,” acting Corrections Commissioner Brad Douglas said in a presentation before the House Jails and Prisons Committee. Corrections officer positions at West Virginia jails are at a 33% vacancy rate, the acting commissioner told lawmakers Thursday, with those remaining often working 12- or even 16-hour shifts. All told, at the end of December, the number of vacancies was more than 1,000. That situation has ripple ...

Two women are facing a slew of drug charges after police in Star City pulled them over for running a red light on Monday and noticed drug paraphernalia in their vehicle. After identifying the driver as Sarah Ellen Baker, 39, of Westover, and Tonya Lynn Compa, 46, as the passenger, officers ...

Police seek information on weekend stabbing

Morgantown police are looking for information on a stabbing incident in downtown Morgantown after being called to a hospital emergency room Sunday morning. A press release from Morgantown Police Chief Eric Powell said MPD officers were called to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital shortly after ...