CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — The man killed in Jefferson County during Saturday afternoon’s storms in the Eastern Panhandle has been identified.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Victor Lupis said Tyler Sigler, 28, of Charles Town died after a tree fell on the golf cart he was in at Locust Hill Golf Course.
Despite life-saving efforts on scene, Sigler was transported to Jefferson Medical Center and pronounced dead, Lupis said.
Lupis says Sigler and Tyler Browning, 29, of Harpers Ferry

MOUNT NEBO, W.Va. — A Tennessee man died after his car slammed into a state Division of Highways truck in Nicholas County Monday morning.
According to a news release from the Nicholas County Sheriff’s Department, Ronald Carelli, 54, of Hixson, Tennessee, was traveling south on U.S. Route 19 at Mount Nebo when his car hit a DOH dump truck at the stoplight at the intersection of state Route 41 at around 9:20 a.m.
Deputies said Carelli was pronounced dead a short time after the crash at

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State Revenue Secretary Eric Nelson says revenue collection numbers are headed in the right direction with two months left in the fiscal year but there are a lot of moving parts that will impact where the state ends the budget year on June 30.
Eric Nelson
The state reported last week it collected nearly $643.8 million in taxes in April, which is $136 million above the estimate. Nelson said during an appearance Monday on MetroNews “Talkline” the number was higher than

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Canvassing of Morgantown’s municipal election begins Monday. Thirty days after the election results are certified the city’s public camping ban will go into effect.
Weez Michael
Morgantown City Council member Weez Michael said the rhetoric has turned darker and more threatening since the voters decided last week to keep the ban in place.
Via social media the Morgantown Coalition for Housing Action said in part, “That heartbreak, the disappointment, that rage you feel? It’s

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–It appears PEIA and the school aid formula will be the subject of special sessions of the Legislature
–More DOGE impacts on West Virginia
–Storms cause damage across the state and claim a life.
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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Storms that blew through the Eastern Panhandle claimed one person’s life and seriously injured another when their golf cart was struck by a falling tree at Locust Hill Golf Course.
The call came out to first responders just before 5:00 Saturday afternoon.
A spokesman with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s department confirmed the fatality of a male victim to the Panhandle News Network and said a second male sustained ‘serious injuries’ and was hospitalized as a result of the