FAIRMONT – Gabby Petito was distraught and crying that August afternoon in 2021 in Moab, Utah, when and where police had just pulled her van over for speeding. Officers observed tenseness between Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie. The couple confessed that they had been in an ...
MORGANTOWN -- In 2024, West Virginia University’s Morgantown Campus saw a 33% jump in reported instances of domestic violence over 2023. Reports of stalking jumped 75% in that same period. The numbers were released Tuesday as part of the university’s 2025 Annual Security and Fire ...
A former Westover City Council member faces domestic assault and battery charges following an incident on Sunday. According to the criminal complaint filed by Westover police, a woman walked into the Westover Police Station at around 6:50 p.m. Sunday to press charges against her husband, ...
A Monongalia County man is in custody after he allegedly threatened and fought with law enforcement officers while being arrested for a domestic violence incident on Collins Ferry Road. West Virginia State Trooper H.D. Casteel responded to a domestic violence call at Timberline ...
by Megan Walsh and David Lamb “273.D.” The dispatch code for domestic violence sends chills down the spines of law enforcement officers, who know these calls to be among the most dangerous. Early on the morning of Feb. 18, police and first responders in Burnsville, Minn., saw just ...
by Noah Feldman The good news is that the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that said police can’t confiscate guns from domestic abusers. The bad news is that the high court’s 2022 Bruen decision, which guided the lower court’s ruling, remains ...