MORGANTOWN, W.Va.  — Soaring jail reimbursement costs required by each of the 55 counties are proving to be more than some of the most financially stable municipalities can meet.
Two of the state’s largest counties, Monongalia and Kanawha counties, have plans to address it.
Tom Bloom
Monongalia County Commission President Tom Bloom said they began to exceed their budget before the end of the third quarter. Now, the commission, judicial staff, and the sheriff meet monthly instead of quarterly to

CHARELSTON, W.Va. –Assistant State Attorney General Lauren Plymale recently traveled to Washington, D.C., to provide input to the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud on combating fraud across government programs.
Assistant State Attorney General Lauren Plymale (Photo: Linkedin Profile)
The meeting, held May 26, brought together attorney generals from across the U.S. for a roundtable led by Vice President JD Vance at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The White House task force was

VAN. W.Va. — One person died in a house fire in Boone County early Saturday morning.
The blaze was reported at shortly after 5 a.m. at a two-story house near Van High School.
A victim was found near the front door.
The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
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CHELYAN, W.Va. — A West Virginia Turnpike worker was injured Saturday after falling out of a tollbooth that was hit by a truck.
State police said it happened Saturday morning at about 9:16 when a truck carrying steel I beams, driven by Cameron Huntington, 28, of Colorado hit a southbound tollbooth near Chelyan.
John Terry, 61, of Gallagher, was working the tollbooth and fell out the window after contact from an I beam caused the booth to rock.
The tollbooth fell to the right striking a vehicle

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — An Inwood man learned his fate after pleading no contest in the shooting death of a man last year.
Michael Allen Taylor (WVRJA)
Michael Allen Taylor, 40, entered the plea last Tuesday to the felony offenses of second degree murder and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to an aggregate 50 years in prison.
Taylor shot and killed for the shooting death of John Offenstein, who had offered Taylor a place to stay when he became homeless.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — State Treasurer Larry Pack came to Morgantown Friday to recognize the National SMART529 Sweepstakes winner.
Larry Pack on WAJR’s Talk of the Town
Pack presented the check to Ellie Ryba at Fat Angelo’s Pizza, where she works for her parents. The money contributed to the SMART529 account earns tax-free interest that can be used for a degree at a traditional university, community college, technical college, or certification program, as well as graduate and doctoral programs.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Those who knew the 17-year-old boy shot and killed earlier this week on Charleston’s West Side are scheduled to gather for candlelight vigil Saturday night.
It is scheduled for 8 p.m. near the Family Dollar on West Washington Street. That’s close to where the shooting occurred early Tuesday morning.
Charleston police have charged a 15-year-old boy with murder but he hasn’t yet been taken into custody.
Police have said the victim and the shooter knew one another and the crime