MORGANTOWN – Developer David Biafora is suing Brian Butcher for $257,434.07 claiming Butcher, the city’s deputy mayor and Morgantown City Council’s 7th Ward representative, “made purposefully defamatory […]
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City countersues employee, seeking return of settlement money
MORGANTOWN — The city of Morgantown has countersued longtime employee Lamar Johnson, claiming the discrimination lawsuit he filed against the city in August violated the terms of […]
City panhandling settlement working through legal process
MORGANTOWN — A proposed settlement regarding a since-repealed city panhandling ordinance continues to move through the legal process. Legal advocacy nonprofit Mountain State Justice filed a class […]
Longtime city employee claims ‘systematic culture of racism’
MORGANTOWN — A longtime employee with the city of Morgantown has filed a lawsuit against the city claiming, among other things, the city has failed to honor […]
Owens & Minor plans opening, sues WestRidge to void original lease
MORGANTOWN – On June 27, 2022, WVU Medicine and Owens & Minor celebrated the groundbreaking of a planned 350,000-square foot “center of excellence” for medical supplies and […]
Mon Commission weighing in on Bridgeport TIF lawsuit
MORGANTOWN — The city of Bridgeport is suing the director of the West Virginia Department of Economic Development, and the Monongalia County Commission is making sure its […]
Lawsuit: City failed to stop sexual harassment
MORGANTOWN — A lawsuit filed Jan.30 in Monongalia County Circuit Court claims the city of Morgantown failed to take “meaningful corrective action” to stop sexual harassment in […]
County asks judge to toss ‘panhandling’ lawsuit
MORGANTOWN — An attorney representing the three Monongalia County Commissioners as well as the county’s former sheriff has asked a judge to throw out the lawsuit challenging […]
Commissioners, sheriff sued over pedestrian safety ordinance
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Commissioners Tom Bloom, Sean Sikora and Jeff Arnett, as well as Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer, have been named as defendants in a […]
States get federal judge to endanger mixed-status couples
Texas Federal Judge J. Campbell Barker, appointed by Donald Trump in 2019, has frozen a Biden administration policy that could have helped some half-million undocumented spouses of […]










