“Because it wasn’t solved.” That's why Preston County deputies chose to reopen the nearly four-decade-old cold case murder of 13-year-old Jeremiah “Jerry” Matthew Watkins, Sheriff Paul “Moe” Pritt said. Now, 37 years after Jerry’s body was found in a shallow hole ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate's Third Grade Success Act topped a list of education- and child-related bills passed in the Senate and House on Tuesday. SB 274 is the Success Act. Its overarching purpose is to develop a statewide, multi-tiered approach to reading and math ...
MORGANTOWN – The multistate lawsuit led by West Virginia against the Biden administration's new gun rule is not the only one in the works. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has filed suit in Texas on behalf of two combat veterans. The Firearms Policy Coalition, a gun rights ...
A weekend burglary in broad daylight on Willey Street resulted in the arrest of a Morgantown man after the homeowners returned to find him still inside their residence. Morgantown Police were called to the scene at about 4:16 p.m. Saturday after the residents were concerned someone had ...
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 ...
