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Pending appeal, Suncrest Primary property under city control

MORGANTOWN – Pending appeal, the title to approximately one acre of land that was once the Junior Avenue home of Suncrest Primary School has been transferred to the city of Morgantown to be used as a public park. That was the ruling of Monongalia County Circuit Court Judge Cindy Scott on ...

Jury returns conviction in child sexual abuse case

Wednesday evening in Monongalia County Circuit Court, Steven Ray Desantis, 41, was found guilty of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in position of trust to a child and sexual abuse in the first-degree during a trial at the Monongalia County Justice Center on High ...

Mon county man convicted of 2021 burglary, sexual assault

A Morgantown man faces decades in prison after he was found guilty of burglary, second-degree sexual assault, strangulation, domestic battery and harassment during a two-day trial in Monongalia County Circuit Court this week before Judge Cindy S. Scott. Court records show on March 17, ...

Brookhaven students have their day in court

If you were even thinking of acting up in Bentley Booth’s courtroom Friday morning, you would have been strongly advised to, well, think again. “Settle down, people,” the judge-for-the-morning said, wielding the gavel. “Or I’ll have the bailiff clear the court.” To be ...