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Canton Township man jailed in sex assault case

State police arrested a Canton Township man last week after he was accused of sexually abusing a child. Edward Gibbon Snider, 35, faces charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault of a child and corruption of minors. According to the criminal ...

WVU Medicine expanding to Southpointe

WVU Medicine is coming to The Fountainhead building in Southpointe. Known formally as West Virginia University Health System, the Morgantown-based health-care provider has signed a lease for all four stories of the structure. The Fountainhead sits at the entrance to the mixed-use park, at 555 ...

A Lake Lynn man was charged with impeding an investigation into the death of his toddler son. According to state police, Brett Bissett, 25, initially agreed to surreptitiously record his girlfriend Brianna Bloyer, who is accused of brutally assaulting 2-year-old Bentlee Myers. Instead, ...

Amber Abruzzi has lived near the railroad tracks in Cecil Township for 27 years, and has grown accustomed to box trucks and 18-wheelers getting stuck at the Georgetown Road underpass every once in a while. However, recently these incidents have become all too common occurrences. “It has ...

Duda’s Farm scaling back operations

Duda’s Farm, a family farm in Brownsville known for its roadside produce stands in Fayette and Washington counties and West Virginia, announced last week its plans to scale back operations. The farm, which has operated for five decades and filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2023, has ...

When Patrick Radden Keefe was in high school in the early 1990s, he had a singular ambition – to write for The New Yorker. When he revealed to an English teacher that he wanted to join the staff of what could very well be America’s most prestigious magazine, it was met with a little bit of ...