PITTSBURGH — A Morgantown man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Wednesday. The one-count Indictment named Zachary Vincent Velling, 26, as the sole defendant. ...
by Harry Litman It’s not necessarily sinister for a prosecutor to go from offering an attractive plea deal to a defendant to throwing the book at him. Plenty of defendants have seen that happen after they turn down a plea bargain or authorities turn up new evidence. But the ...
WHEELING — A Follansbee man has been ordered detained following his indictment on charges related to a federal hate crimes trial in the Western District of Pennsylvania. Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Mazzone for an arraignment and detention ...
BY JARETT LEWIS SOUTH CHARLESTON — A Kanawha County grand jury indicted a former Chapmanville Police officer who hasn’t been able to explain the disappearance of his police K-9. The police dog named Chase was initially reported missing in April. Marcus Dudley was indicted ...
Con(gress)man George Santos spent much of the day Wednesday in a federal building, but it wasn’t the Capitol where he casts votes and likes to make floor speeches. Instead Santos was out in the federal courthouse in Central Islip on Long Island being arraigned on 13 criminal counts by ...
by Jonah Goldberg “There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question,” Alexis de Tocqueville, the brilliant observer of American life, wrote. I’m pretty sure De Tocqueville didn’t have in mind ...