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Fairmont Police looking for man involved in shooting

FAIRMONT — The Fairmont Police Department is looking for a maninvolved in a shooting that occurred early Monday. The suspect is Antonio Marquise Evans, a 29-year-old Black male. He’s 6’2” tall,190 pounds. Police said Evans had an exchange of gunfire with another man on Spence ...

UPDATE: I-68 to partially open

A tractor-trailer accident closed I-68 in both directions Friday. West Virginia Division of Highways confirmed that one lane in either direction will open at about 3 p.m. The rig wrecked shortly before 6 a.m. near the 18.5 mile marker. Emergency crews confirmed that an unknown chemical, ...

Driver, 44, dies in Morgantown crash

DPNews@DominionPost.com A Morgantown woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident Tuesday. Marlena Dawn Sloan, 44, was driving a sedan northbound at about 4:25 p.m. when she crossed the center line near 235 Smithtown Road, Morgantown, and struck a southbound box truck, according to West ...

Killer sentenced to life without parole in 2024 attack

CRoark@DominionPost.com After four days of testimony that narrated a brutal killing, chilling obsession and the grief of a family, jurors in Monongalia County Circuit Court delivered their final decision Friday in the case of Jonathan Ramirez.At 10:54 a.m. on Friday, Judge Perri Jo ...

Prosecution continues in murder trial

MORGANTOWN — Six witnesses for the prosecution took the stand Wednesday as the state continued building its case against Jonathan Ramirez, the Texas man accused of brutally killing Jacob Patrick Lough in January 2024.The detective, who oversaw the investigation, was the first called to ...

Man found guilty for fatal I-79 crash

MORGANTOWN — A Monongalia County jury has found a Pennsylvania man guilty on all charges in connection with a January 2024 crash on Interstate 79 that killed two Morgantown residents. Thomas H. Horner III, 39, of Bobtown, was convicted Wednesday of two counts of negligent homicide and ...