Wednesday - November 27, 2024
Federal Tipoffs Involving West Virginia Newsletter for Friday August 09, 2024 ( 2 items )  

EPA Awards $2.4M to Mid-Atlantic States to Support Wetlands Programs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Grants fund projects that target water pollution * * * PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 8, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $2.4 million to projects that will help protect, manage, and restore wetlands in the mid-Atlantic region. Recipients in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia were chosen for a Wetland Program Development Grant (WPDG) tha  more

W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Former West Virginia Corrections Officers Plead Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charges in Connection With Death of Inmate
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Aug. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2024: Two former corrections officers from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today for their respective roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate, identified by the initials Q.B., on March 1, 2022. Ashley Toney and Jacob Boothe each pleaded guilty to violating inmate Q.B.'s civil rights by  more