MORGANTOWN – The state Senate and House passed bills dealing with distracted drivers, student drivers, attacks on police officers, human smuggling green energy and more on Friday. Here's a rundown. HB 2218 is known as the Electronically Distracted Driving Act and the Robin W. Ames ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia (ACLU-WV) filed legal action Friday in Kanawha County Circuit Court in an effort to compel the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) and its overseer, the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to release a ...
A federal indictment returned this week charging individuals from Ohio, California and Mexico dismantles a sophisticated drug trafficking network that served as one of the largest suppliers of illicit substances to West Virginia, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. U.S. ...
A lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Monongalia County Circuit Court against the Morgantown Police Department and one of its officers after a U.S. Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and sentence of a woman originally found guilty on illegal possession of firearms charges. The ...
The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public for help identifying a suspect in a burglary at Calvary Baptist Church on Burroughs Street in Morgantown. On Tuesday, an unknown male broke into the church and took keys to a vehicle that were inside the church before ...
A lawsuit recently filed in Preston County Circuit Court by a former Office of Emergency Management (OEM) employee alleges the office allowed several supervisors to create a hostile work environment by permitting “vile, disgusting, offensive, and sexually graphic conditions in the ...
