A Westover police officer who broke a man’s jaw and knocked out three of his teeth during a New Year’s Day arrest — caught on another officer’s bodycam — was […]
Cops and Courts
Preston man gets 3 to 30 years in prison for threatening deputy and officer’s family
KINGWOOD – A Preston County Man was sentenced to three to 30 years in prison Friday for threatening a police officer and the officer’s family. Steven Calvin Barrett, of Rowlesburg, […]
Preston woman who threatened police ordered to seek alcohol, mental health treatment
KINGWOOD – A Tunnelton woman received probation Friday for making threats against police and ordered to seek treatment for mental health and alcohol abuse. Pamela Renee Rhodes was sentenced to […]
Morgantown responds to firefighter lawsuit
MORGANTOWN — The City of Morgantown responded to the lawsuit filed by its firefighters, who said holiday pay was withheld for years. In the same case, the assigned judge recused […]
Albright seeks removal of home from flood plain
KINGWOOD — The Town of Albright is seeking an injunction against a resident who it says placed a home in violation of town and county flood plain regulations. The town […]
Philidelphia man sentenced to almost 20 years for drugs
A Philadelphia man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for taking part in a meth operation. Terry W. Trapp, 49, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy […]
State police warn of email scam
West Virginia State Police are warning residents about an email scam where the scammer pretends to be with the agency’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations Division and offers to stop an […]
Man pleads guilty to two shootings
A Detroit man will spend at least eight years in prison for two December 2018 shootings, one of which sent a man to the hospital. Imani Zachary Cody, 21, pleaded […]
December shooting suspect convicted
MONDAY — A Fairmont man accused of a man in the chest last year pleaded guilty to the crime on Monday. Judge Susan Tucker accepted 29-year-old Carlos Pagan’s plea to […]
Bransfield accused of sex assault in civil suit in Wheeling court
MORGANTOWN — A former seminarian alleges that former Bishop Michael Bransfield sexually assaulted him, and that Bransfield regularly drank himself drunk and then engaged in “grossly inappropriate” sexual behavior with […]
