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With Roe v. Wade overturned, what’s next for West Virginia abortion law?

MORGANTOWN — The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, returning authority on abortion law to the states. President Biden is calling on Congress to again federalize abortion law, but unless and until that happens, the question for West Virginia ...

Arrest made in May murder, second suspect still sought

Monongalia County Sheriff’s deputies have one suspect in custody for the May 7 murder of Matthew D. Moore in Mon County.  An arrest warrant has been issued for a second suspect. Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr., AKA “Ghost,” 48, of Harper Woods, Mich., was arraigned in Monongalia ...

Suspect arrested for May Jimmy John’s armed robbery

The Morgantown Police arrested George Kyle Hess, 20, of Morgantown, for allegedly robbing the Jimmy John’s on High Street in Morgantown on May 31. Detectives were called to the scene at approximately 1:30 a.m. that day, after an employee at Jimmy John’s reported that a white male ...

Morgantown man charged with arson, child neglect for apartment fire

A Morgantown man is being held at North Central Regional Jail after allegedly setting multiple fires to an apartment with small children inside during a domestic dispute on Monday. Deputies from the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to a Goshen Road apartment for a ...

Sheriff: Suspect was shooting randomly at people after stopping in the middle of I-79

WESTON — The chief deputy of the Upshur County Sheriff’s Department is recovering from a gunshot wound and a suspect who shot him is dead after a chaotic scene on I-79 at the Weston exit Thursday morning. The incident started just before 11 a.m. when a man in an SUV stopped his vehicle in the middle of the northbound lanes, got out, and pulled out a scoped rifle and a handgun. Passing motorists indicated he was attempting to flag them down, but none would stop. He started randomly shooting. The assistant director of Upshur County’s Office of Emergency Services happened to be ...