One person is dead after a shooting early Thursday morning on Mountain Valley Drive outside Morgantown. Detectives with the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) are investigating. According to a press release authorized by Sheriff Perry Palmer, deputies were called ...
CHARLESTON — A $1 million dollar settlement is going through between the West Virginia State Police and the estate of a man who died in police custody. The settlement was approved Tuesday by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Kenneth Ballard. It’s in regards to the wrongful death lawsuit for Edmond Exline, 45, who died in February 2023, following a confrontation with state police along Interstate 81, near Martinsburg. After State Police responded to a call of a man walking along the road who appeared to be intoxicated, troopers said a ...
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department (MCSD) is warning the community of a new phone scam. According to MCSD, the department has recently received numerous calls regarding a scammer who is using the name Lt. Douglas or Capt. Steve McRobie. The caller says they are from ...
Just two days after the 12-year anniversary of their only daughter’s murder, emotions ran high Monday as Dave and Mary Neese joined a conference call with the West Virginia State Parole Board, which would subsequently deny parole for one of their daughter’s killers. Before the parole ...
The man charged with leaving the scene of a deadly vehicle crash on June 7 in Dellslow waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Monongalia County Magistrate Court on Monday afternoon. David Blaine Emerson, 28, of Morgantown, was allegedly speeding away from a West Virginia State ...
MORGANTOWN — During a recent state-of-the-department update before Morgantown City Council, Police Chief Eric Powell said staffing issues remain the number-one challenge facing the MPD. The department is allowed 79 officers. It currently has 59, meaning a quarter of the city’s ...
