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Woman charged for DUI with child, 3, in car

10-month- old twins were left unattended in unsecured house KINGWOOD — State Police charged a woman for leaving her 10-month-old twins at home while she took her 3-year-old in the car and was arrested for drunk driving. Shala Richelle Sapp, 36, of Morgantown, was freed on $5,000 bond. ...

Ex-professor sentenced for fraud

Newsroom@DominionPost.com  Dr. Qingyun Sun, of Morgantown, was sentenced Friday to three years of probation, with the first four months on home confinement, after defrauding West Virginia University and filing a false tax return, both offenses arising out of his official travel to ...

Mon County law enforcement to attend slain officer’s funeral

Monongalia County’s law enforcement community will attend Charleston Police Officer Cassie Johnson’s funeral today. Johnson was shot while responding to a parking complaint call Dec. 1 and died two days later. The suspect, Joshua Phillips, is expected to be charged with first-degree ...

Woman charged for Brookhaven area fire

The West Virginia State Fire Marshal’s Office charged a Morgantown woman with arson, saying she set a fire in early November in the Brookhaven area. Amber McKinney, 23, is charged with first-degree arson. About 11:15 a.m. Nov. 2, there was a fire on Nuce Lane at the property of ...

Private school lawsuit dismissed

Academy accused Preston BOE of targeting it with lies KINGWOOD — A lawsuit filed by a private school against the Preston County Board of Education has been dismissed.  Kristine Ayers-Cline, the director of the Academy,  and Laurel Academy LLC filed the suit in February in ...

Counter filed in property dispute

Wings Ole owner takes next step against city’s claim The city of Morgantown is using the eminent domain process to retroactively make the illegal legal.  That, in short, is the essence of counterclaim filed Friday in Monongalia County Circuit Court on behalf of Dan Nagowski, the ...