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Gun auction brings in over $18,000 for the Sheriff’s Department

KINGWOOD — The Preston County Sheriff’s Department received a $18,822 check this week for guns recently sold by the West Virginia State Treasurers Office. The check was the biggest in the state. The event raised $98,636 to benefit the 19 participating law enforcement agencies that ...

Man sentenced for 2022 Grafton Road death

The man found responsible for the 2022 death of Grafton Road resident Michael E. Mobley, 29, was sentenced in Monongalia County Magistrate Court Friday morning.  Mobley identified and was known in the community as Kimmy Rose but had not legally changed her name. William Bailey, 25, ...

Federal appeals court says W.Va. law can’t keep transgender girl off the track team

Federal appeals court judges have ruled that West Virginia’s law forbidding the participation of transgender athletes on school sports teams violates the rights of a middle school track and cross-country runner, upending an earlier district court ruling. The case was decided Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers the area that includes West Virginia. In the majority were U.S. appeals judges Pamela Harris and Toby Heytens. Dissenting was their colleague, Steven Agee, who said the ruling went too far. “The question before us is ...

MPD oversight board considers funding request for community survey

BY MIKE NOLTING The Morgantown Civilian Police Review and Advisory Board plans to move forward with a community survey to better understand the perceptions of policing in the community, which could cost about $10,000 or less. Vice Chair Rachel Fetty said they want to have a clear ...

Police and Peers to help with drug problem

KINGWOOD — Kingwood City Council members are giving the Police and Peers program a try. Tonya Helmick, a member of the program who was at the Tuesday evening meeting, will work alongside the Kingwood Police Department to help with drug and homeless problems. According to the West Virginia Office of Drug Control Policy, Police and Peers (PNP) is a grant-funded program aimed at sharing the workload placed on law enforcement when responding to a nonviolent, non-law enforcement-specific incident. The concept of PNP is to pair an embedded or corresponding Peer Recovery Support ...

Arrest made on attempted carjacking near Mon Health

An attempted carjacking near Mon Health on J.D. Anderson Drive resulted in felony robbery charges for Anthony Michael Shuttlesworth, 30, of Morgantown.  Monongalia County deputies were dispatched to the area of the hospital Wednesday evening for a man — later identified as ...