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Employee allegedly uses woman’s stolen credit card

Resident saw nurse looking in cabinet where  purse was kept A nurse at Stonerise Morgantown — formerly Mapleshire — is accused of using a resident’s credit card to buy $158.89 worth of goods. Amanda Dawn Holcomb, 39, of Morgantown, is charged with two counts of access device ...

State Police charge Morgantown man with sex assault

57-year-old also accused of burglary and solicitation A 57-year-old man is charged with sexually assaulting a teen relative’s 15-year-old best friend about 20 times between October and December. The charges were brought by the West Virginia State Police. Gerald Thomas McCarthy, of ...

New phone scam reported

A new phone scam has been reported in Monongalia County. It involves the caller claiming to be from Comcast and offers the potential victim a lower rate on service if they send a check made out to “CABLE TV” for $249 to an address in New York, the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office ...

Lawsuit filed over deadly farm stand crash

The long-time domestic partner of Pamela Ciuni, who was killed in a vehicle on pedestrian collision at Duda’s Farm stand on Fairmont Road in Westover this summer, filed a lawsuit over her death. Ciuni, her minor grandson and her partner — Albert Claudio Jr. — were at the farm stand ...