WHEELING -- After more than five hours of deliberation Monday afternoon, the jury tasked with deciding the fate of Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Kuretza went home without coming to a unanimous decision on his guilt or innocence. The jury will reconvene Tuesday morning to ...
BY MIKE NOLTING A Fairmont State University professor was charged this week with 28 sex crimes, some involving juveniles in Marion County. Professor John O’Connor was taken into custody Wednesday by state police and charged with 14 counts of sexual abuse by a parent or guardian and 14 counts of first-degree sexual assault. O’Connor is being held at North Central Regional Jail on a $1 million bond. The Fairmont State University website lists O’Connor as the chair of the Department of Humanities and a senior level professor of communication arts. The university ...
On Thursday, jurors heard the final four witnesses in the criminal trial of Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Kuretza, who is accused of depriving Quintin Graziano of his rights by using unnecessary force during a 2018 arrest at a Morgantown hotel and falsifying his report of the ...
CHARLESTON — The Mountain Valley Pipeline, which appeared to be on its way to completion after federal action, has been halted again by the court system. Three judges with the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals entered a short order late Monday to stay construction in the Jefferson National Forest while a court challenge continues. A second stay entered Tuesday morning halts construction on the pipeline even more broadly. The stays were entered in two separate but related cases by appeals judges Roger Gregory, Stephanie Thacker and James Wynn. The pipeline’s ...
Perception was the word of the day during the ongoing trial for Monongalia County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Kuretza who is accused of allegedly violating the constitutional rights of Quintin Graciano by using excessive force during a January 2018 arrest at a Morgantown hotel and falsifying ...
WHEELING -- Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department 1st Sgt. Kurt Thomas spent nearly five hours on the stand Tuesday explaining use-of-force training deputies receive. He also answered questions from attorneys about when, where, how and what type of force is appropriate for law ...
