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Customer who found a screw in Primanti’s sandwich files lawsuit

Primanti Brothers Restaurant and Bar has been named as the defendant in a lawsuit filed in Monongalia County Circuit, which claims a man bit through a screw that was inside a sandwich he had ordered from the establishment. According to the complaint, on August 5, 2020, Ghassan Ghorayeb, ...

Additional charges filed against Ohio man charged with assaulting an officer

Additional charges have been filed against Joseph P. Elias, 40, of Wintersville, Ohio, after Monongalia County sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant on the vehicle in which he was found. Elias was initially arrested Jan. 20, after deputies found him asleep in the driver’s seat ...

Live streaming program gives responders preview of emergencies

MORGANTOWN -- They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  In the age of social media, it seems nearly every event, incident, or altercation is being captured by a bystander cell phone videographer.  A new program being used in Monongalia County will now allow 9-1-1 callers to use those ...

Morgantown man arrested after selling drugs to police informants

MORGANTOWN — Agents from the Mon Metro Drug Task Force arrested a Morgantown man during a search warrant executed after the man allegedly sold drugs to confidential informants on more than one occasion. Robert Dal Allen Jr., 30, was taken into custody after members of the Task Force ...

Sheriff’s deputies charge Washington man with breaking and entering

Monongalia County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Washington man now living at an area homeless shelter Wednesday. According to a press release from Sheriff Perry Palmer, deputies responded to Tractor Supply, on Vista Del Rio Drive, about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday for an alarm. There, the did a patrol of the area and cleared the alarm. Deputies then drove to the West Virginia Gymnastics Center, also on Vista Del Rio Drive, where they noticed a broken glass door. Outside the broken door there was a butt stock to a gun and inside the broken door was the barrel. The building was cleared ...