DPNews@DominionPost.com Monongalia County, WV — The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office has concluded a search and recovery operation at Coopers Rock State Forest on Thursday afternoon. The incident began at approximately 12:45 p.m., […]
Cops and Courts
Fentanyl package intercepted in Morgantown leads to conviction of North Carolina man
DPNews@DominionPost.com CLARKSBURG – Jaquan Marquis Brock, 29, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney […]
Morgantown night club owner convicted of drug conspiracy
CLARKSBURG – U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey has announced that Mike Sheriff Scott, 47, Rachelle Gaston, 41, and Phineas Chaplin, 42, were convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances by […]
Nevera: Jury says life, with no mercy
MORGANTOWN – Rose Osborne was sitting at her kitchen table that day in November 2024 when she heard the knocking at her door. The woman who waited seven months for […]
GUILTY: Jury returns verdict in Nevera murder trial
MORGANTOWN – Joe Nevera has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2024 slaying of Kim Osborne, his one-time girlfriend and domestic partner. A jury of five women and […]
Prosecution rests in Nevera trial
MORGANTOWN – Kim Osborne had fresh bruises on her neck the night she told police Joe Nevera strangled her. That was on Jan. 21, 2022, when Sgt. John Cunningham of […]
UPDATED: Mon County Sheriff’s Office investigates reports of threats involving Cheat Lake Elementary School
DPNews@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN – Following the information released on Friday regarding a report of a student threatening harm to others at Cheat Lake Elementary School, the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office has concluded […]
Nevera Trial Day 4: Of domestic abuse, soiled boots and the deal that didn’t happen
MORGANTOWN – The motivations of Joe Nevera’s one-time best friend John Claburn were key to both the prosecution and defense Friday, in the fourth day of Nevera’s trial for murder […]
Nevera murder trial: Second day focuses on fights, drug-dealing and the initial mystery of it all
MORGANTOWN – Michael Kief took a long, methodical look inside the Chevrolet truck Kim Osborne had been driving on Mother’s Day 2024, when she was last seen alive. It was […]
Fairmont woman, others admit to drug trafficking
DPNews@DominionPost.com ELKINS – Four people have pled guilty in federal court this week for fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey. Michelle Denise Gallo, 57, […]
