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We have to get this right: Committee discusses FOP review board concerns

Police oversight and review board ordinance in the works MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Councilor Zack Cruze said pushback from the Fraternal Order of Police and others over the city’s efforts to create a community policing advisory and review board is premature and ...

Mon grand jury returns 107 indictments

A 73-year-old man accused of shooting and killing his stepdaughter is among the 107 indictments returned by the September term of the Monongalia County grand jury. The grand jury also indicted a former Morgantown City Council candidate on two election fraud charges and a man accused of ...

Police: man wanted for stabbing arrested after vehicle chase

A man accused of stabbing someone in June was arrested on Friday after allegedly leading deputies on a vehicle chase in Morgantown. Timothy I. Brooks Jr., 30, of Morgantown, is charged with malicious wounding and fleeing from an officer in a vehicle with reckless indifference. Deputies ...

Judge denies new trial for Preston County man convicted in 1990 murder

KINGWOOD — A convicted Preston County murderer’s appeal has been denied by Senior Status Judge Larry Starcher. Richard Knotts was convicted in 1990 of murdering Robert Barlow Jr. The jury's verdict of first-degree murder without mercy carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison ...

Detroit man charged with drug possession

Allegedly found on I-68 with cocaine, cash A Detroit man was arrested after a state trooper reportedly found cocaine during a traffic stop. Stewart Jenkins, 47, is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent by the West Virginia State Police. While on a road patrol ...

Kingwood woman faces child neglect charges

KINGWOOD — Police say a mother charged with child neglect after drugs and paraphernalia were found by her child said she had relapsed into drug use. Bond was set at $100,000 for Nicole Dawn Cosco, 20, of Kingwood. She was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Wednesday. In a criminal ...