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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
Mineral County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland metropolitan area , together with Cumberland, Maryland . As of the 2020 census , the population was 26,938. [ 1 ]
Jul. 12—CUMBERLAND — A city man was jailed without bond Tuesday after he was arrested on a warrant from Mineral County, West Virginia, where he is wanted on burglary, forgery and firearms ...
Mineral County, West Virginia, in the American Civil War (3 P) B. Buildings and structures in Mineral County, West Virginia (5 C, 17 P) E. Education in Mineral County ...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Mellinger for Sheriff Facebook/West Virginia Regional JailIt was 2019, and a contentious, mudslinging election for Jackson County ...
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Mineral County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Keyser, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was built in 1868 and expanded or remodeled in 1894 and 1938–1941. The original section of the courthouse is a 2 1/2 story, brick building. The 1894 modifications are in the Romanesque Revival style. It is a three-story section constructed ...
Staggers served as sheriff of Mineral County from 1937 to 1941. He served as a navigator in the U.S. Naval Air Corps during World War II. In 1948, Staggers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. He was reelected to another 15 terms in the congress, serving until his retirement ...