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Reporter gets taste of crime firsthand

On Monday morning a wallet was stolen from a vehicle in a parking lot on Garrison Avenue. No one has been arrested; no  criminal complaint to explain the details. Just my own experience. Yeah, the wallet was mine. I didn’t realized it was gone until my phone rang at 9:44 a.m. ...

Drug task force: Fentanyl, cocaine found in apartment

A Pennsylvania man was arrested Thursday following a search of a Brookhaven apartment by the Mon Metro Drug Task Force. Ryan J. Michaux, 22, is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession with intent to deliver fentanyl. The drug task force and the West ...

Second WVU student injured in rock slide sues

One of those injured in last February's rock slide on Monongahela Boulevard has sued the West Virginia University Board of Governors. Maceon Wheeler was a passenger on the PRT when a rock slide that originated on WVU property rolled down the hillside and "violently crashed into and through ...

Police: Tuesday power outage caused by drunk driver

MORGANTOWN -- A Tuesday evening power outage in Sabraton was caused when an allegedly drunk driver crashed into a light pole support wire. About 1,500 Mon Power customers lost power from 6:55-7:55 p.m., spokesman Will Boye said. Boye said the light pole support wire that was struck made ...

W.Va. hospital to pay more than $300K for Medicare fraud

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  CLARKSBURG — U.S. Attorney Bill Powell has announced that Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg has agreed to pay $320,175.71 for false medical claims. According the settlement, Grant Memorial Hospital filed false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA, and Railroad Retirement programs from September 2014 to March 2016. The claims were for outpatient and inpatient services and items using the National Provider Identifier number and name of a credentialed physician, when, in fact, the services and items were actually provided by a ...

Vehicle crash takes out bus stop shelter

The shelter over the bus stop in front of Morgantown Unity Manor on Willey Street was destroyed in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning. Around 3:50 a.m., a traffic crash involving one vehicle that failed to make the turn on Willey Street and struck the Mountain Line bus shelter was ...