The City of Morgantown has proposed some needed changes to the police hiring process. It doesn’t seem to be looking to cut corners, but rather to cut through some of the red tape. Under West Virginia Code, the city is required to have a three-member police civil service commission that ...
The Morgantown Police Department will host an open house for women to learn about joining law enforcement from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the former Defense in Depth facility. The recruitment event is part of the “30x30 Pledge” to have 30% female officers in the department by ...
For more than a decade, the month of October has proven to be one of the most dangerous months for drivers in West Virginia with 309 total traffic fatalities from 2011-20. Some of these deaths may have been prevented had the vehicle occupants been wearing a seatbelt. In 2021, 40% of people ...
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Police are investigating a shooting that happened just before 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Officers responded to a shots-fired call at 1993 Water Street, to find a man with gunshot wounds to his hand and back. According to a release sent out by the department, officers ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARESTON — A former Chapmanville police officer charged in connection with the disappearance of a K-9 officer is back in West Virginia. Marcus Dudley, 26, was booked into the South Central Regional Jail without bond Thursday evening. Dudley, formerly of South ...
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet this raid took place not in a faraway autocracy, but in a small town in Kansas, ...