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Prank leads to criminal charge in false fire

A prank gone seriously wrong. That’s how Brett Brown, 28, described the incident that led to him being charged with obstructing a fire marshal and reporting a false alarm of fire in Morgantown Municipal Court during an interview with Morgantown fire marshal Capt. Ken Tennant. Just ...

Man with murder charge denied bond

A man charged with first-degree murder will stay in jail until his case is resolved after a judge rejected a motion to set bond Tuesday. Michael Corney, 33, is accused of killing Chadwick Malone by shooting him twice  Sept. 23, on Pennsylvania Avenue at the intersection with Pietro ...

Supreme Court ends A.G.’s suit against diocese

MORGANTOWN -- The state Supreme Court has effectively ended Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's suit against the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and former Bishop Michael Bransfield, saying the diocese did not violate the state Consumer Credit and Protection Act in advertising its education ...

Albright man charged with murder

KINGWOOD — An Albright man is charged with second-degree murder after allegedly killing his girlfriend’s cousin. Andrew Woods Prudnick, 28, is in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail in lieu of bond. According to the criminal complaint by West Virginia State Police Trooper B.A. Rose, ...

Maryland man charged with attempted armed robbery of Kingwood Hardee’s

KINGWOOD — A Maryland man is charged with the attempted armed robbery of the Kingwood Hardee’s restaurant. Bradley Scott Savage, 43, of Mountain Lake Park, Md., was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Monday in lieu of $500,000 bond. According to a criminal complaint by Kingwood ...

Former students settle abuse claims at closed boarding school for record $51.9M

Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — More than two dozen former students at the Miracle Meadows School in Salem, who were child victims of  sexual and physical abuse, settled their claims for a total of $51.9 million  following years of litigation against the school.   The  settlement  is believed to be a record for such cases in the state and was reached with the various defendants and finalized Oct. 27. The 29 victims were alleged to have suffered mental, sexual and physical abuse by the adults who ran the Christian boarding school in Harrison County over a ...