A TV news reporter was accosted while filming Saint Patrick’s Day parties on North High Street’s frat row. The reporter was streaming live when a white man wearing a backwards […]
Cops and Courts
SUNSHINE WEEK: Morgantown pays police chiefs about national average
This is one in a series of articles to mark Sunshine Week, which is a national initiative to educate the public about the importance of open government. In his last […]
State supreme court overrules local judge
The state’s highest court overturned a decision by a Monongalia County Circuit Court judge to suppress the use of a DNA sample in a sexual assault case. In Tuesday’s decision, […]
Sandwich shop owner to stay in jail through weekend
A detention hearing for George Tanios, a Morgantown business owner recently charged for taking part in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, has been delayed. Tanios is being held […]
Morgantown man accused of abusing girl
A 28-year-old Morgantown man is accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. Thomas Duane Rodenish is charged with first-degree sexual abuse and sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian, or […]
Sandwich University owner arrested, charged with assault of officer during Capitol riot
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown business owner George Pierre Tanios is one of two men charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick and two others with bear spray during […]
Switched at birth lawsuit continues
A lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston by two 78-year-old men who say they were switched at birth is progressing. John W. Carr III, Jackie L. Spencer and other […]
Drunk driver allegedly led deputy on short chase
A Wadestown man is charged with fleeing from law enforcement in a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Robert K. Wardell ignored a Monongalia County Sheriff’s deputy’s attempts to […]
U.S. Marshals ask for help finding suspect
MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Marshals Service is asking for the public’s help finding James Tyrone Pugh. Pugh, aka “Tyke” or “Fam,” is a 46-year-old Black man about 5 feet 8 […]
Police arrest man for stabbing near Health Right
MORGANTOWN — A 26-year-old man is in jail after police arrested him for stabbing someone in a fight. Joshua Ryan Watson, 26, of Wadestown, is charged with malicious wounding by […]
