MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The City of Morgantown appears ready to have future city firefighters and police officers placed into the state municipal pension plan. The Morgantown City Council unanimously approved the first reading of ordinances that would move newly hired first responders to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System during their regular meeting…
GRANVILLE, W.VA. –– After a delay of more than 18 months, work on two stoplights in the University Town Centre area has begun. The poles were the latest item to bedevil the project. Mayor Patty Lewis said the poles arrived ahead of schedule, and Lost Creek-based Specialty Group Inc. (SGI) has started work on top…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The State School Building Authority has awarded Monongalia County Schools nearly $17 million for a new Suncrest Middle School. Monongalia County Schools received $16,982,966 to construct the proposed new Suncrest Middle School. The project will receive $11,400,437 in this cycle and another $5,582,529 in Fiscal Year 2026. “We applied for $17 million…
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — An Elkins resident has entered a guilty plea to methamphetamine possession and and distribution in federal court. William Durnal, 60, was operating as part of a distribution network that supplied large amounts methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine to the Morgantown area. Officers also found hundres of grams of methamphetamine in separate investigation in…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — No injuries were reported in a more than five hour standoff at the Cranston & Edwards Law office in Morgantown Monday. Jeremy Harp came to the office Monday to provide a statement regarding his brother Christopher’s April2024 conviction for multiple counts of receiving child pornography. Once Harp provided that statement he produced…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Multiple agencies responded to a standoff at the Cranston Edwards Law office on Dorsey Avenue in Morgantown Monday. Dispatchers at MECCA 911 confirm a call was received at 12:28 p.m. about a male subject who was not an employee and had a gun. As employees exited, officers from the Monongalia Sheriffs Department,…
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A Fairmont couple is facing multiple charges after being accused of keeping a child in a dog kennel and using a taser as punishment for bedwetting. Deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Department have arrested and charged Franklin Ours, 60, and Sonya Daugherty, 54, with child abuse creating risk of injury, and…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The suspect charged with first degree murder in the disappearance of Kimberly Osborne has waived his preliminary hearing. Court documents said there was a text message exchange between Joseph Nevera, 51, of Morgantown, and Osborne on the day she went missing, May 12 that acknowledged she was in a relationship with another…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. –– Multiple agencies are on the scene of a standoff at the Cranston Edwards Law office on Dorsey Avenue in Morgantown. The incident began at 12:28 p.m., according to dispatchers at MECCA 911. Dorsey Avenue is blocked in both directions on either side of the law office as the situation unfolds. No other…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker reflected on the process that resulted in the return of Rich Rodriguez to coach the Mountaineers. On MetroNews “Talkline,” Baker said everyone had an opinion about the former coach and how he left to take the head coaching job in Michigan.…