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Addressing crime can’t ignore need for more police

Misguided calls from the left to “defund” the police threaten to put Democrats in the position of the Nixon era, when they were successfully painted as soft on crime. The party should respond with a national crime bill that lays out in detail a pragmatic approach that is both ...

Postcast 83 – August 6, 2021

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The ‘war on drugs’ was always about race

by LZ Granderson Democrats talk about a “failed war on drugs” because they lack the fortitude to speak on this uncomfortable truth: It didn’t fail. As Kathleen Frydl eloquently points out in her book “The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973,” the country’s gradual move from ...

Detroit man charged in overdose death

MORGANTOWN -- A Detroit man has been charged with giving a person who died by overdose the drugs that killed them. Tremayne I. Johnson was arrested by the Detroit Police Department July 14 and extradited back to West Virginia, said P.J. Scott, deputy chief of the Morgantown Police ...

Bond reduced for man accused of attempted kidnapping, more

A magistrate reduced the bond of a man accused of multiple crimes, including trying to kidnap his ex. Shelton K. Coates, 37, of Morgantown, had hoped for an even lower bond. Coates is charged with attempted kidnapping, burglary, receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle, and possession ...

Five Westover police cruisers, city hall damaged

Most of the Westover Police Department’s cruisers and two doors at the city municipal building were damaged on Monday morning and the man accused of doing it was released on a personal recognizance bond. Michael Cotterall Jr., 29, of Westover, is charged with felony destruction of ...