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BUCKHANNON — A Buckhannon woman who hit a man on the head with a King Kong statue last weekend has been arrested for hitting a different man in the head with a porcelain figurine. Deon Jones, 44, now faces a second count of domestic battery third offense, a felony, days after being charged with domestic battery third offense, a felony, and resisting an officer, a misdemeanor. In the latest case, Sgt. Tom Posey with the Buckhannon Police Department responded to 187 Camden Ave. for a domestic incident on Sept. 2, according to the criminal complaint in the Upshur County...

A Dallas woman told police she shot and killed her husband because he was beating the family cat, according to investigators. Neighbors said they were shocked to hear Mary Harrison, 47, had been charged with murder in the slaying of her 49–year-old husband Dexter Harrison Saturday morning. “A man got shot over a cat? It’s kind of crazy,” neighbor Carl Phillips told KTVT. “It’s unbelievable. A man loses his life over a cat. I mean, people love their pets, but it ain’t that serious… to die for a cat.” Dallas police were dispatched to the Harrison home in response to...