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Gun fired at Copper Beech

Deputies charged man with wanton endangerment A 21-year-old was arrested after he allegedly fired a gun outside an apartment at Copper Beech Town Homes. Markus O. Guy is charged with wanton endangerment by the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded to the call ...

Court rules in favor of Calvary Baptist

After a four-year fight, a half-acre parcel on Burroughs Street will be rezoned by order of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.  The court this week ruled unanimously in favor of Calvary Baptist Church, which has wracked up an estimated $100,000 in legal fees to be paid by ...

Judge denies request to lower bond in murder case

A judge declined to reduce bond for a man accused of shooting his fiancee in the head during an argument.  The September 2020 Monongalia County grand jury indicted Travis Anderson, 34, of Core, on first-degree murder. He is charged in the June 3  shooting of his fiancée, ...

Man who posted intimate pictures of ex pleads guilty

A man who posted explicit pictures of his ex-girlfriend on the internet without her consent pleaded guilty to the crime in Monongalia County Magistrate Court on Wednesday. Magistrate Sandy Holepit accepted the guilty plea to nonconsensual disclosure of private intimate images by Jonathan ...

Attorneys debate if switched at birth case should continue

Attorneys spent more than an hour of arguing their respective causes during a motion hearing to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by 78-year-old men who were switched at birth. Judge Phillip Gaujot complimented both Charles Crook, who is representing the plaintiffs, John William Carr II and ...