A Maryland man is facing drug charges after Morgantown police found him driving a motorcycle in the wrong direction on High Street, which is a one-way street. According to the criminal complaint, officers saw Daryl James Goodall Jr., 33, of Oakland, Md., traveling north on High ...
CHARLESTON — Lawyers for Gov. Jim Justice say compelling him to disclose his financial information in a federal dispute over almost $2 million would violate his privacy and could be used against him in his bid for U.S. Senate. “The information Xcoal seeks in discovery is sufficiently sensitive — and coveted by the news media and Gov. Justice’s political adversaries — that Gov. Justice has a well-founded concern for its confidentiality,” lawyers for Justice wrote this month in a filing in U.S. District Court in Delaware. A teleconference meant to work out conflicts over ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s intermediate court isn’t buying an alternative school student’s argument that he should have been better supervised when he jumped off a bunk improperly and injured himself. Jason Ryan Moorhead was appealing a lower court’s summary judgment that tossed his lawsuit against the West Virginia National Guard and the Mountaineer Challenge Academy. The Circuit Court of Preston County granted summary judgment last July to throw out the student’s lawsuit, and Moorhead was seeking a reversal. The student didn’t get that from the West Virginia ...
The upcoming jury trial for Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Kuretza will now be held at the United States District Court in Wheeling after maintenance work scheduled at the original venue in Clarksburg threatened to further delay the proceedings. Kuretza is accused of ...
CHARLESTON — Former Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw died Wednesday. He was 84. A public servant for more than 50 years, Justice McGraw most recently was a circuit judge in the Twenty-Seventh Judicial Circuit (Wyoming County). He retired on June 21, 2021 — the West Virginia Day holiday— and died on Flag Day. Also a former president of the West Virginia Senate, he was one of only a handful of people who served at the top of two separate branches of government. At the time of his retirement, he indicated physical impairments due to Parkinson’s Disease led him to make the ...
A Tunnelton man is facing multiple felony charges after law enforcement agents with the West Virginia State Police and the Preston County Sheriff’s Department executed several search warrants at a Senior Drive residence on Tuesday. Police initially arrived at the property to serve ...
