Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday his office will seek U.S. Supreme Court review of whether a state law violates the rights of a middle school track and cross-country runner who identifies as a girl and uses puberty blocking medication. The announcement was intertwined ...
Gov. Jim Justice said the Greenbrier Hotel, owned by his family, is on a payment plan to straighten out liens with the West Virginia tax department, run by his administration. “There are two, you know, payment plans with the tax department and they’re completely current. All’s good ...
An inmate formerly housed at the United States Penitentiary Hazelton was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court after being found guilty of killing a fellow inmate on March 6, 2015. In March 2020, Stephen C. Crawford, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with ...
A federal appeals panel rocked but did not knock down a West Virginia law forbidding the participation of transgender athletes on school sports teams. The narrowly tailored ruling concluded the state law violates the rights of a middle school track and cross-country runner who identifies as a girl and uses puberty blocking medication. The majority determined her rights have been violated under federal Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives federal funds. But the appeals ruling did not fully invalidate West Virginia’s ...
MORGANTOWN — Mountain State Justice, a statewide nonprofit legal services and advocacy organization, has filed suit against the city of Morgantown in the Northern District of West Virginia, claiming the city’s enforcement of a 2005 panhandling ordinance is ...
One woman is dead following a shooting incident on Falling Water Lane the evening of April 19. According to a press release authorized by Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer, deputies were dispatched to the scene at approximately 8:30 p.m. Crews from Mon EMS, Brookhaven ...
