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State police super issues apology

CHARLESTON — The new superintendent of the West Virginia State Police issued a written apology to women who might have used a training academy locker room where a video camera was revealed to have been placed. Meanwhile, an attorney representing women who used the locker room has notified the state of an impending lawsuit. The revelation of a video recording device that was placed in the locker room around 2015 was identified last week as a significant piece of a broader investigation into the West Virginia State Police. Gov. Jim Justice, who took office in 2017, called the ...

Stolen envelope led to Cahill’s resignation

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice has a definite opinion about a bank envelope that wound up in the wrong hands on May 29, 2021. “Basically any way you cut it, that money was stolen,” the governor said. The incident the governor was discussing was a big factor in last week’s resignation of Jan Cahill, who had been West Virginia State Police superintendent for the past six years. The basic facts are relatively straightforward. But interpretations of the initial actions by the man who temporarily wound up with the money and the more recent response by authorities have been ...

Dalton civil service hearing continues in Westover

A month after Westover Civil Service Commissioners Justin White, Jessica Thompson and Robert Berryman heard the first two days of testimony in the civil service hearing for former Westover Police Officer Aaron Dalton, the third day concluded Friday after nearly eight hours of witness ...

Pocius takes the bench

Newly appointed Monongalia County Magistrate Judge J. Timothy Pocius, along with his new assistant Heather Field, was sworn in Friday morning by Chief Circuit Court Judge Perri Jo DeChristopher before a small crowd at the Monongalia County Justice Center.  Pocius, who will ...

Law enforcement make largest meth bust in state

BY JARETT LEWIS CHARLESTON — Local and federal law enforcement made a significant seizure of drugs Wednesday in Charleston. U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Will Thompson said 30 federal indictments were returned after an eight-month long investigation into a historic drug bust in the state. “It is the largest methamphetamine seizure in West Virginia history,” Thompson said at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston. The attorney said they don’t know exactly how many pounds of meth were seized, but Thompson said it’s well ...