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Police chase suspect on Fairmont, River roads

A Morgantown man is accused of leading police on a case on Fairmont Road and the surrounding area after hitting two police cruisers to escape after getting caught shoplifting at University Town Centre. Olekisy Anatoliyovych Titov, 25, is charged with fleeing from an officer with reckless indifference by the Granville Police Department. Chief Craig Corkrean said no one was injured the chase -- although the department is down one cruiser which ran into an embankment as Titov was pulling into a driveway. He then ran away and was arrested by the West Virginia State Police. The ...

UPDATE: Domino’s shooting suspect turns himself in

MORGANTOWN — The man accused of shooting another man in the shoulder following a dispute in the Domino's Pleasant Street parking lot April 8 is in jail. Justin Christopher Lamar, 19, of Bruceton Mills, is charged with malicious wounding by the Morgantown Police Department. Lamar ...

Rally for Daunte Wright

The chants heard in downtown Morgantown Thursday evening were exactly the same as those that echoed through the same streets last summer.  Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police. There was one notable difference.  When leaders chanted “Say his ...

Fire civil service commission to hold hearing on pay dispute

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown's firefighters are earning about $2,000 less a year after the city changed their pay. Morgantown said it's just applying the shift differential pay rules correctly after discovering an error. Firefighters say it's retaliation over their refusal to take the city's ...

D.C. shooting suspect arrested in Parsons

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  CLARKSBURG — A Washington, D.C., man who was wanted for assault with a dangerous weapon was arrested Tuesday in Parsons. Romair McKnight, 30, was taken into custody without incident at about noon near Overlook Drive. McKnight was wanted by the ...