MORGANTOWN – Two fallen local law enforcement officers were among those honored Monday morning when riders from The Honor Roll made a stop at the Public Safety Building for a brief ceremony. Five Honor Roll riders joined with Morgantown Police Officer Frank Fidazzo's widow, Janice ...
Authorities are still sorting through the circumstances that led to the suicide of a 74-year-old man Sunday evening at Friendship Manor, a facility on Van Voorhis Road that caters to the elderly. The man, whose 96-year-old father is a resident there, died from a single gunshot wound, Chief ...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced that consumers who were tricked by TurboTax’s owner Intuit into paying for free tax services will begin receiving checks from a $728,699.97 settlement — part of a nationwide $141 million multistate settlement announced in May 2022. Approximately 4.4 million consumers nationwide will receive checks in the mail from the multistate settlement. Eligible consumers will be contacted by email about the settlement. Checks will be mailed throughout this month. “This company allegedly took money from consumers who thought they ...
Area health officials are once again predicting a spike in drug overdoses is about to hit the Morgantown area after an alleged “bad batch” wreaked havoc in the Columbus, Ohio, area. Monongalia County Health Department has gotten word that a new overdose spike has been issued in the ...
Gov. Jim Justice, who declared a staffing emergency in West Virginia’s corrections system last August, repeated this week a statement suggesting futility in working with legislators to address the problem. “I twice have sent bills up in regard to locality pay for our corrections officers. We didn’t get it done,” Justice said during a broad-ranging briefing. The issue with corrections staffing continues to linger, with a vacancies level at 1,022, according to the most recent update to lawmakers. That’s a 27% vacancy rate for corrections workers across the jails ...
Two corrections officers from United States Penitentiary Hazleton are facing charges over a March 21, 2019, incident involving the assault of a prisoner. According to U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld’s office, Robert David Sims, 40, of Bruceton Mills, and Joshua David Sines, 38, of ...
