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 ...
A Morgantown man being held on attempted kidnapping charges had his bond reduced from $500,000 to $50,000 on Tuesday. Felix Nahun Reyes Galeas, 31, was scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday afternoon. While that hearing was waived, Magistrate Sandy Holepit did allow the bond ...
Two men accused of killing a West Virginia University student and a Masontown man accused of shooting another man in the face are among the 79 indictments returned by the June 2020 Monongalia County grand jury. The county traditionally holds three terms of the grand jury a year in January, ...
Sentencing on local charges was postponed Tuesday for a former Morgantown pharmacist who is already serving time in federal prison on drug charges. As previously reported, Scott Tingler, 41, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised ...
Chief Judge Debra Scudiere and Judge Susan Tucker will resume in-person hearings once their already set dockets are clear.Scudiere said her docket is already set for the next few weeks with most being handled by telephone or video conference.After that, there's no set time or big opening ...