| HARDEES SLAYINGS BRUTAL - The slayings of two Hardees restaurant workers in Clarksburg appear to be brutal "crimes of violence," not robbery.
The Harrison County Sheriff's Department said that more than one weapon may have been used in the murders of Heather Jean Conner and Michael Dennis Mueller.
Officials have been tight-lipped about the slayings, not speculating on the motive.
The slayings happened when the restaurant was open late Sunday night.
Conner, 24, of Bridgeport and Mueller, 46, of Clarksburg were found early Monday in the employee area of the restaurant. Conner was a manager who had worked for the restaurant about three years, while Mueller had worked there about five months.
ST. ALBANS WOMAN KILLED LAST NIGHT - A Kanawha County woman was killed in St. Albans Wednesday night, police said. Investigators are treating the unidentified woman's death as a homicide, said Sgt. J.S. Elkins of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department. Police have two people in custody.
The woman was in a mobile home where people were arguing. Police then received a report of a shooting around the mobile home.
FUGITIVE ARRESTED IN PISTOL WHIPPING AND SHOOTING -
A Charleston man suspected of pistol-whipping and kidnapping his girlfriend last year, then shooting a man who tried to break up a fight, was arrested Wednesday by Kanawha County deputies and United States Marshals.
Raymond Andrew Richardson, 26, was arrested at a Charleston gas station. Richardson has a long rap sheet. He was arrested on similar charges in 1999 after kidnapping and torturing a different girlfriend.
He was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2001, but was let out of jail last year after the state Supreme Court reduced his sentence.
DUNBAR MAN ARRESTED IN STABBING -
A Dunbar man was in jail yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a Charleston man during a fight at a East End apartment.
John Sturgis, 39, was charged with malicious wounding and was being held at South Central Regional Jail,
Police said Sturgis and William Woodson were drinking inside Woodson's Carroll Terrace apartment about noon Tuesday when the two began fighting.
Sturgis allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the 47-year-old Woodson several times in the hand.
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