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Allegations of credit card fraud can bring down conman Santos

After managing to wriggle out of consequences for his litany of lies, perhaps Con(gress)man George Santos may finally be running out of luck. Former associate Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha has sent federal authorities a sworn declaration attesting to the fact that Santos, R-N.Y., was in fact the ...

Biden knew full well to resist D.C.’s softer criminal code

Yes, Joe Biden believes that the District of Columbia should rule itself.  Yes, Biden believes that D.C.’s new softer-on-crime law was a bad thing and needed to be stopped.  But no, there isn’t a disconnect between the first belief and the second. It’s true that some of ...

The folly of the criminal mind

by Gene Lyons People who focus upon the motives of alleged killers like Bryan Kohberger, the Ph.D. candidate arrested for slaughtering four college students in Moscow, Idaho, are missing the point. Defective specimens like him don’t have motives that any sane person would recognize. ...

Murder suspect arrested on 79

BY MIKE NOLTING A man wanted in the murder of his estranged wife in a Pittsburgh suburb was arrested on I-79 near Morgantown Monday morning. Members of the U.S. Marshals Mountain State Task Force, the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department, the West Virginia State Police, the Westover ...

Suspect in PA cop shooting was former Morgantown High student

BY DAVE WILSON The man accused of killing a police chief and injuring another officer in a shooting near Pittsburgh was formerly a student at Morgantown High School, where he was arrested and charged with threatening a teacher nearly a decade ago. Aaron Lamont Swan, Jr, 28, was the ...

W.Va. senator to sponsor eugenics bill

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. Unless, of course, they don’t think history’s “mistakes” are actually mistakes. At a meeting with Mineral County residents in early December, Sen. Randy Smith (R-Tucker) announced that he will be the lead ...