Details of the settlement agreement between a number of Morgantown Police Department officers and the City of Morgantown were released this week, ending a two-year battle regarding officer compensation and other issues. As part of the settlement, the city agreed to pay the officers a ...
A federal judge in Delaware has ordered a company owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family to be moved toward a sale over a tangle of debt. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews entered the order late last week. The order kicks into gear a forced sale of Bluestone Mineral Inc., a holding company in the Justices’ expansive business network. Shares of Bluestone Mineral “shall be sold to satisfy the judgment” in a form to be proposed by the parties to the court action within 30 days of the order. Bluestone Mineral is significant in that it isn’t just one of Justice’s ...
A Michigan man with several prior arrests in Monongalia County was taken into custody on Wednesday for drug possession. While on patrol, Morgantown police officer C.J. Behm noticed a Chrysler minivan with Illinois registration thought to be involved in a hit-and-run incident on June ...
Local police are investigating two unrelated child neglect cases that occurred in Monongalia County less than three hours apart, both involving an allegedly intoxicated parent. At around 11:45 p.m. Sunday, first responders were sent to the scene of a vehicle accident between mile markers ...
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department pulled out all the stops during a private tour of the facility for a Bruceton Mills boy with muscular dystrophy. It all started a few weeks ago when 14-year-old David Austin and his mother Kim Burnworth began talking to Deputy Dave ...
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department is mourning the loss of a beloved retired K9 officer who passed away last weekend. K9 Azim, who was 11 years old, started his journey with the sheriff’s department in 2014. For the next eight years, Azim and his human counterpart Sgt. ...
