MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A suit filed last week in Berkeley County is the latest in West Virginia to challenge vaccination requirements that are being enforced by the state Board of Education. It is now among a handful of other lawsuits filed around the state. On August 28th, five parents filed a suit against the West…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A major law enforcement operation in the Eastern Panhandle spanned a month and netted 34 arrests. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Mountain State Fugitive Task Force led a month-long warrant roundup in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia from July 14 to Aug. 15 called Operation Monarch, to support the president’s initiative…
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A crash Sunday morning in Morgan County claimed the life of a motorcyclist. Morgan County Sheriff Johnnie Walter tells The Panhandle News Network Christopher Vincent Leone, 39 of Hedgesville was riding a 2025 Harley Davidson westbound on Winchester Grade Road behind another rider. Leone reportedly lost control and left the right…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — How will Berkeley County Proposed Impact Fees Impact the City of Martinsburg? The Berkeley County Council recently adopted a plan to institute impact fees on new development. The fee would tack on $5,500 on each new single family home developed in the county, with smaller amounts assessed to new multi-family or mobile…
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Division of Highways is reviewing feedback collected during a public workshop held Tuesday, August 5, 2025, on the proposed West Washington Street improvement project in Charles Town, Jefferson County. The meeting, hosted at the Betty J. Roper Auditorium at Wright Denny Intermediate School, drew residents, business owners and…
LOUISA COUNTY, VA — We are learning more about the arrest of a now former Paw Paw Schools teacher who has been charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor and other charges after a Louisa County Virginia Deputy spotted him kissing an underaged girl in a parking lot. Benjamin Samuel Hopkins, age 41, faces…
BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A man charged with shooting at Morgan County sheriff’s deputies late last month after allegedly breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home waived his right to preliminary hearings Tuesday in Morgan County Magistrate Court. Melvin Gallion, 40, is charged with one count of malicious assault and two counts of attempted murder after the…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Motorists driving along West King Street near the interstate or Viking Way near the ROCS convenience store just after noon Friday may have seen as many as a dozen Martinsburg Police and Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department cruisers. Our Luke Wiggs said there appeared to be some suspects in custody and officers on…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — It was a busy week here at the Panhandle News Network, and it started the previous Friday when we got a chance for an exclusive sit-down interview with Governor Patrick Morrisey. On Saturday, the news broke that a deputy had been injured in a shootout in Morgan County with a domestic violence…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Morgan County man has been sentenced in federal court on charges of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia says Joel Galen Patton, 40, of Berkeley Springs, was sentenced this week to 150 months in federal prison. Patton was talking…