Star City police officers arrested a Morgantown man on possession charges after pulling his vehicle over for excessive smoke, gas, or noise from the muffler, a violation of a Star […]
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Six arrested during Van Voorhis drug bust
Six men were arrested on drug charges Wednesday during the execution of search warrants at two apartments at a Van Voorhis Road apartment complex. The Mon Metro Drug Task Force […]
Grandstanding on the border will never solve the nation’s drug crisis
by Dan Rodricks Forty-eight-year-old Thamar Smith of Hagerstown, Md., pleaded guilty to federal drug charges last week, the latest in a long line of American men who have contributed to […]
Nearly two pounds of fentanyl pills found during a probation home inspection in Morgantown
A home inspection of an active probation participant on Thursday led to the seizure of nearly two pounds of narcotics from a Morgantown residence. Kaylin Eamon Reese Bishop, 24, of […]
Monday drug task force search adds over one pound of narcotics to staggering monthly totals
Two Morgantown residents are being held at the North Central Regional Jail on $110,00 bonds after large amounts of drugs were found inside a Monongalia County residence on Monday. Darryl […]
Recovering from an overdose epidemic
Andrew Ayers is busy working on loading and unloading several machines at Guy Chemical — a massive, 30,000-square-foot industrial facility that sits tucked along the border of the tiny unincorporated […]
Guest essay: It takes a village to fight fentanyl
by William Ihlenfeld West Virginia has long struggled with addiction, and the tremendous harm suffered by its people is well documented. But just when we thought that the worst was […]
Fentanyl symposium brings ‘best and brightest’ to talk opioid crisis
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Prosecutors, sheriffs and police chiefs from throughout West Virginia gathered at Waterfront Place Hotel and Conference Center in Morgantown Thursday for the West Virginia Fentanyl Symposium, which […]
After long debate, House of Delegates approves bill to require extended supervision for repeat-offense fentanyl dealers
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates spent more than an hour Monday debating a bill to require extended supervision of repeat-offense fentanyl dealers who’ve done their time – then voted […]
Morrisey’s trip to the border wasn’t about fentanyl
The flood of fentanyl — an extremely potent synthetic opioid — into the U.S. and, by extension, into West Virginia is alarming and something we should all be concerned about. […]
