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2nd suspect charged in Fairmont attempted murder

BY MIKE NOLTING FAIRMONT — Recently released details from an April shooting in Fairmont reveal the incident involved the kidnapping of an unidentified Morgantown man. On April 27, Kenyatta Ephraim, 29, of Elyria, Ohio, allegedly fired five times from inside a car on Maple Avenue at the victim, who was standing near a vehicle. Three rounds hit the car, and another hit the rear window and rifled into a home nearby occupied by two adults and two children. Police said Ephraim, Tyreese Taylor, 29, of Lorain, Ohio, and a third suspect kidnapped a man from a home in Morgantown and ...

Morgantown police arrest one after seeing drug deal in progress

BY MIKE NOLTING Police made one arrest on High Street this week after witnessing a drug deal in progress. “We are probably going to be stepping up our efforts in the next several weeks in respect to placing officers into positions where they can make more of those types of arrests,” Morgantown Police Chief Eric Powell said. “We’re going to concentrate more heavily on those street-level type deals in downtown and anywhere else they might be occurring.” Officers patrolling High Street Wednesday allege they witnessed Dusty Doman, 35, of Morgantown, hand another person a ...

Hazelton corrections officers protest staffing issues and unsafe conditions

Corrections officers and staff members of the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Hazelton and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 420 union, came out from behind the bars and barbed wire on Friday in an effort to make the public aware of staffing issues at the ...

Police seek suspect, person of interest in Water Street shooting

Morgantown Police Department is looking for a suspect and a person of interest thought to be involved in an alleged shooting at 1993 Water St. in Morgantown on Wednesday evening. MPD officers responded to the shots fired call at about 7:25 p.m. and once on scene found a male victim with ...

Morgantown Police investigate shooting on Water Street

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Police are investigating a shooting that happened just before 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Officers responded to a shots-fired call at 1993 Water Street, to find a man with gunshot wounds to his hand and back. According to a release sent out by the department, officers ...

Search continues for inmate who walked off West Virginia work release

CHARLESTON — Authorities are continuing the search for an inmate who ran off from a work release detail at the Mountain State Forest Festival office in Randolph County. “We’re just following leads at this point,” Randolph County Sheriff Robert Elbon Jr. said in a Monday telephone interview. “We’re basically following leads, and if we get them we go to the area and check it out.” The inmate still on the loose has been identified as 30-year-old Denver Bennett, who, at the time, was wearing tan pants and a white T-shirt. He’s listed as 6 feet tall and 210 ...