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Stay informed on local issues on the Morning Spiel, brought
to you by Royal Water on WKMZ. Welcome back in everybody.
This is the Morning Spill presented by Royal Water Treatment
on one O three to three WKMZ. Alex Reweederspiel here
with you. Good morning. Let's check in with your news
and sports headlines for the day. A jury has found
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one of the suspects in the murder of Dallian Lewis guilty.
Dennis High was the first person arrested in the murder case.
The sale of Native was found guilty of first degree
murder with mercy meaning Hill be parole eligible. He was
also found guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Investigators arrested
High after he and another suspect were accused of luring
Lewis into a van, ultimately kicking off the string of
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events leading to Lewis's death. The dispute is believed to
have been over one hundred dollars. Sentencing is set for
next month. The West Virginia Division of Highways says construction
on the three mile stretch of I seventy nine year
Fairmont is complete. Traffic control devices and traffic cones have
officially been removed between mile marker and thirty two and
one thirty five, completing the three lane widening project that
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began four years ago. A jury says guilty in the
case of a Pennsylvania man accused of causing a fatal
accident in a purported road rage incident in January of
twenty twenty four. Thomas Horner, the Third is guilty on
two counts of vehicular homicide resulting in the deaths of
twenty one year old Zekwon Georgia nineteen year old Maggie Erdie.
He was also found guilty of one count of reckless
driving with serious bodily injury. Horner could face around three
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years in prison when sentenced. It's finally here. The forty
sixth annual Italian Heritage Festival returns to Clarksburg today, Festivities
kicking off with the crowning of a new Regina Maria,
live music, great food, and much more. The festival will
conclude this weekend. We caught up with one of the
festival founders on a recent edition of The Mornings Bill.
You can check it out at your preferred podcasting platform
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if you missed it. The public funeral service for State
Supreme Court Justice and former House Speaker Tim Armstead will
be set for Tuesday in Charleston. Armstead died earlier this
week from cancer at just the age of sixty years old.
The service begins at six pm. A Moningelia County grand
jury took only thirty minutes to convict twenty four year
old Jonathan Ramirez. The Texans stood accused in the brutal
homicide of twenty six year old Jacob Luff. Prosecutors said
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Ramirez stabbed him more than two hundred times, stole his
clothes and car before finding himself on the WU campus,
where he was ultimately taken into custody. The jury convicted
him on crimes the first degree, murder, burglary, and grand larceny.
A Morgantown man is charged in connection to a fatal
hit and run in Fayette County. Pennsylvania's seventy four year
old Stephen Lemro is accused of hitting seventy year old
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Paula Sylvis at the intersection of West Church and Morgantown
in Fair Chance on Wednesday. Lemro is further accused of
fleeing the seen Silverstein at a local hospital. Lemro is
charged with involuntary manslaughter, accident involving death, fleeing, and reckless driving.
The word notwithstanding is doing quite a bit of heavy
lifting in the ongoing public debate over West Virginia's Religious
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Freedom Act and whether or not it applies to school
vaccination laws. The latest on the dispute today at wv
Metro news dot com. West Virginia University can ter scientists
have developed AI models that can potentially identify signs of
heart failure in patients from Apalachia. The model is in
its infancy, but being trained to diagnose the disease using
data from patients in urban and suburban areas. Currently. It
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was a slower start in the first half for Robert C. Byrd,
who fell behind nineteen fourteen to Lewis County in a
meeting between two teams who both made the playoffs last season,
but a late surge in the second half for RCB
twenty seven unanswered points leads them to a forty one
nineteen win and a one and oh start to the season.
Lewis County falls two oh and one on the year.
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Multiple games today for locals. Bridgeport is hosting Buchanan Upsher
one O three to three wkm Z Lincoln is hosting
Triple A Elkins on ninety three five. The fby South
Harrison will host Braxton County on a game that can
be heard exclusively on Sky one oh six five dot com.
Check out the rest of the schedule today at WV
Metronews dot com. WV women's soccer picks up eight three
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nil wind even their record at two and two on
the season, as Matty Levy scored twice, including goals in
the first half and the second half. Taylor White assisted
on all three as the Mountaineers outshot to Cane twenty
to five in the blowout win. Saint Louis dropped the
Pirates four to one on Thursday, as Pittsburgh falls now
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to seventeen games under five hundred. The Bats went silent
once again for the Pirates, who have deeply struggled on
the road. They will travel to Boston next first pitch
seven to ten. Tonight, Fairmont State held off a late
push by Seaton Hill, ultimately winning twenty four to twenty
one in the season opener. They got a big day
from Leonard Farrow, who ran twice from sixty two yards
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out to pay Dirt to pace the Falcons. Pharaoh finished
with two hundred and seventy four yards and two touchdowns
on twenty five carries for the Falcons. Let's take a
look now at your weather. A sunny and pleasant Friday
to open up the high school football season high seventy
four or temperature's cool towards kickoff low tonight, gets down
to forty eight sunny on Saturday for the start of
Mountaineer football high seventy five and warm for fans in
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the stands. Saturday night, clear and mild, low fifty. Sunday sunny,
high seventy eight, Monday's Labor Day sunny and warm, high
seventy nine. Tuesday sonny and warm, high eighty. All right,
that'll do it for your news and sports headlines. I'm
Alex Wweeerspield. We're gonna step inside. Mike Costi joining us
here in just a moment, as we are going to
go into all things Mountaineers. We're back after this