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 ...
MORGANTOWN -- The U.S. Marshals Service is asking for the public's help finding James Tyrone Pugh. Pugh, aka "Tyke" or "Fam," is a 46-year-old Black man about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 195 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He is wanted by the FBI/Mon Metro Drug Task Force for ...
MORGANTOWN -- A 26-year-old man is in jail after police arrested him for stabbing someone in a fight. Joshua Ryan Watson, 26, of Wadestown, is charged with malicious wounding by the Morgantown Police Department. Officers were sent to the reported stabbing in the area of Wall Street near ...
