DPNews@DominionPost.com West Virginia State Police Kingwood Detachment has activated a Silver Alert for an attempt to locate an 84-year-old man. Willard A. Dewitt is 6 feet tall, 240 pounds, with […]
Cops and Courts
Man sentenced to 25 years for 2002 murder
DPNews@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Circuit Court has sentenced Chance Williams, 26, of Morgantown, to 25 years in state custody following his conviction for the 2022 murder of Jamey Corbin. […]
Ex-Point Marion official accused in parks commission theft
By Mike Jones For the Dominion Post The former vice president of Point Marion’s parks committee – who was co-winner of a $30.6 million Powerball jackpot nearly 25 years ago […]
Truck driver in Cheat Lake fatal crash now in ICE custody
JBissett@DominionPost.comLegal ramifications continue for Sukhjinder Singh, the longhaul trucker who pleaded guilty in a fatal crash in January that sent a car plummeting off the Cheat Lake Bridge.Singh earlier this […]
Lawsuit filed against Preston County Board of Education, former teacher
KINGWOOD – A civil case is pending against the Preston County Board of Education and the former Central Preston Middle School teacher who duct-taped a student’s mouth and wrists on […]
Driver charged in I-68 fatal crash pleads guilty
JBissett@DominionPost.com The longhaul trucker police say was responsible for a crash in January that sent a car plummeting off the Cheat Lake Bridge is now awaiting his sentence – after […]
West Virginia Coal Association supports coal company in mine subsidence lawsuit before state Supreme Court
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia Coal Association has taken the side of a mining company being sued by an Ohio County couple for damages caused by long wall mining […]
Man sentenced 40 years for 2024 murder
DPNews@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A man turned himself in to the police after a Monongalia County murder in 2024 was sentenced last week.Arnold Johnson III, 21, of Montgomery Village, Md. was […]
Killer sentenced to life without parole in 2024 attack
CRoark@DominionPost.com After four days of testimony that narrated a brutal killing, chilling obsession and the grief of a family, jurors in Monongalia County Circuit Court delivered their final decision Friday […]
Texas man guilty of murder
MORGANTOWN — A Monongalia County jury convicted Jonathan Ramirez, 24, of Watauga, Texas, on Thursday of first-degree murder, burglary and grand larceny in the stabbing death of 26-year-old Jacob Patrick […]
