Local nonprofit agencies offer vital support for the community and often rely on donations to continue their missions. So, when a significant contribution is received it can be exciting. Unfortunately, several local nonprofits have recently been targeted as part of a donation refund ...
We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, mostly boys, to take their lives. One victim was a 17-year-old star athlete at Marquette Senior High School in ...
I oversaw the care of an elderly friend in his last years. Up until age 86, Frank was pretty much in control. But then he was diagnosed with cancer. The disease and the drugs greatly sapped powers that old age had already altered. The telephone became his conduit to the outside ...
An investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of West Virginia revealed a romance fraud scheme that defrauded 200 victims, many of them elderly, of at least $2.5 million. Multiple defendants, one of them based in Huntington, “participated in a series of romance ...
by James Rosen Congress created the Do Not Call Registry in 2003 by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, and still robocalls kept coming. The Federal Trade Commission outlawed robocalls outright in 2009, and yet they kept coming — by the billions. Samsung, Apple, LG and other ...
MORGANTOWN -- On Monday, Monongalia County resident Sandra Wolfe and her husband received a call from a male claiming to be her son, telling her he had been hurt in an accident. There was a lot of static and background noise on the line, making it hard for Wolfe to tell if the voice really ...