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Judge orders 23 Justice companies to make payments on federal fines they agreed to three years ago

A federal judge has ordered companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice’s family to make more than $400,000 in payments that were part of an agreement with federal officials and then missed. The order came down the same day Justice made public statements urging less public attention of his companies’ financial conflicts, with the governor describing a track record of eventually making good on debts. “I’ve said many, many times, judge me for what I’m doing as your governor. Absolutely leave my family’s business to my son and daughter. Let them do their job. And at the end of ...

Michigan man admits to methamphetamine trafficking in Morgantown  

A Warren, Mich., man who was arrested by deputies from the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department in December 2021 has admitted in federal court to transporting methamphetamine to the Morgantown area.  Myron Manning, 25, plead guilty this week to a possession with intent to distribute ...

MPD, State Police make weekend drug arrests

A Maryland man is facing drug charges after Morgantown police found him driving a motorcycle in the wrong direction on High Street, which is a one-way street.  According to the criminal complaint, officers saw Daryl James Goodall Jr., 33, of Oakland, Md., traveling north on High ...

Justice’s lawyers want to shield financial disclosures

CHARLESTON — Lawyers for Gov. Jim Justice say compelling him to disclose his financial information in a federal dispute over almost $2 million would violate his privacy and could be used against him in his bid for U.S. Senate. “The information Xcoal seeks in discovery is sufficiently sensitive — and coveted by the news media and Gov. Justice’s political adversaries — that Gov. Justice has a well-founded concern for its confidentiality,” lawyers for Justice wrote this month in a filing in U.S. District Court in Delaware. A teleconference meant to work out conflicts over ...

Intermediate court rejects argument that Challenge Academy was at fault

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s intermediate court isn’t buying an alternative school student’s argument that he should have been better supervised when he jumped off a bunk improperly and injured himself. Jason Ryan Moorhead was appealing a lower court’s summary judgment that tossed his lawsuit against the West Virginia National Guard and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. The Circuit Court of Preston County granted summary judgment last July to throw out the student’s lawsuit, and Moorhead was seeking a reversal. The student didn’t get that from the West Virginia ...

Trial for Mon deputy moved to Wheeling

The upcoming jury trial for Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Kuretza will now be held at the United States District Court in Wheeling after maintenance work scheduled at the original venue in Clarksburg threatened to further delay the proceedings.  Kuretza is accused of ...