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Local U.S. attorney elected to HIDTA board

The United States Attorney responsible for Monongalia County was unanimously elected as vice-chief of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area executive board. HITDA has been beneficial to West Virginia and other Appalachian states, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia William Powell said. "It's essentially served as a conduit for resources for task force agencies and the like that are incredibly important to rural states," he told The Dominion Post. The HITDA, which includes 93 counties in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, helps ...

MPD seeks assistance in search for missing Morgantown woman

MORGANTOWN -- At about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 28, the Morgantown Police Department received a call of a missing person. The responding officer was advised that Alexa M. Randolph was last seen at 2:45 p.m. Jan. 28 at her apartment at 315 Overdale St. Attempts to contact Randolph were unsuccessful, ...

Task force arrests three

Three people were arrested by the Mon Metro Drug Task Force following a traffic stop and hotel room search on Monday. Charles Curry Johnson, 29, of Detroit, is charged with possession of heroin with intent. Debbie Burch, 62, of Grafton and Shannon Foster, 39, of Anchorage, Alaska, also ...

A review board is a proactive practice

MORGANTOWN -- The creation of a Civilian Police Review and Advisory Board is not an attack on the Morgantown Police Department, but a proactive effort to build trust between the community and the MPD, provide a process to receive and review citizen complaints and address systematic ...

Act of vandalism leads to donation request

Police are investigating an act of vandalism at Morgantown's First Presbyterian Church. On Friday night, someone threw two separate bricks through two different doors at the church, located at the intersection of Spruce Street and Forest Avenue, the Rev. Zachary Morton said. The doors were ...

Mylan sued for age, disability, discrimination

Man claims he was fired after being pressured to retire A former Mylan employee claims he was set up for failure and fired because of his age and physical disability after resisting attempts to force his retirement for two years. According to the lawsuit, filed in Monongalia County ...