The state's highest court overturned a decision by a Monongalia County Circuit Court judge to suppress the use of a DNA sample in a sexual assault case. In Tuesday's decision, Justice Elizabeth Walker wrote for the majority that Judge Phillip Gaujot's ruling was a "clear legal ...
A detention hearing for George Tanios, a Morgantown business owner recently charged for taking part in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, has been delayed. Tanios is being held in Central Regional Jail in Flatwoods. He has been there since he was arrested at his home Sunday. On Monday, Tanios ...
A 28-year-old Morgantown man is accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. Thomas Duane Rodenish is charged with first-degree sexual abuse and sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in a position of trust, by the West Virginia State Police. On March 4 the victim's ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown business owner George Pierre Tanios is one of two men charged with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick and two others with bear spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Tanios, 39, owns Sandwich University, on Beechurst Avenue, and was wearing a ...
A lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston by two 78-year-old men who say they were switched at birth is progressing. John W. Carr III, Jackie L. Spencer and other members of their families sued the Diocese in June 2020, claiming that on August 29, 1942, Carr and Spencer ...
A Wadestown man is charged with fleeing from law enforcement in a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Robert K. Wardell ignored a Monongalia County Sheriff's deputy's attempts to pull him over for about 1.5 miles before pulling over and surrendering, according to a criminal ...
