A burglar and a man who sexually abused a young girl were sentenced in Monongalia County Circuit Court this week. Judge Phillip Gaujot sentenced Michael Ammons, 64, of Fairview, to […]
Cops and Courts
Small fire at MTEC
The Morgantown Fire Department responded to a smoke-filled Monongalia County Technical Education Center on Friday morning. A training gas-powered HVAC unit, capable of both heating and cooling, caught fire in […]
U.S. Marshals makes arrest in Morgantown; man wanted on multiple charges in Pa.
A man who was wanted for multiple charges in Pennsylvania was arrested in Morgantown Tuesday. Guerau Bernat Cabrera, 41, was arrested noon outside a home on Park Street. Cabrera was […]
Tunnelton man pleas guilty to unlawful assault
KINGWOOD — A Tunnelton man indicted on a charge of strangulation pleaded guilty to an information Monday charging him with unlawful assault. Richard F. Schamberger Jr., 37, told Preston Circuit […]
Volk newest judge on bench in Southern District
Judge Frank W. Volk doesn’t need a court stenographer’s transcript to help him recall his testimony. He can tell you where he was and what he was doing when he […]
Three people charged after drugs, guns, swords found in car
KINGWOOD — Three people were charged Friday after police found drugs, guns, knives and swords in a car with a man wanted for violating parole. Christopher Lee Lyons, 36, of […]
Chinn receives life sentence without mercy
The woman who murdered 67-year-old Timothy Pahl in his house after he caught her burglarizing it will spend the rest of her life in prison. On Friday, a jury decided […]
Attorneys argue over admissible evidence in man’s murder trial
KINGWOOD — Attorneys argued Friday over whether some evidence will be allowed into the trial of Joseph Harrison. Harrison’s trial in the May 8, 2018, stabbing death of his wife, […]
MPD remembers K-9 Officer Apollo
A traditional and formal police funeral escort led Morgantown Police Department K-9 Officer Apollo Von Den Alten Bergen to the High Meadow Pet Crematory on Friday. Apollo was a seven-year […]
Chinn found guilty on all charges
A 34-year-old Ohio woman who killed Timothy Pahl, 67, in his home on Stewartstown Road was convicted of the five charges she faced. On Thursday, after about an hour of […]
