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 a federal jury Wednesday following a 7-day trial. Scott and Gaston were convicted of ...
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 her daughter Kim Osborne to come home, saw the silhouette of the officer through the window. In that wrenching ...
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 seven men deliberated three hours or so Tuesday afternoon before delivering the verdict in Monongalia County ...
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 the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department responded to the River Road house she shared with Nevera after she called ...
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 a thorough investigation.In collaboration with school ...
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 in Monongalia County Circuit Court. Nevera, 52, of River Road, was charged with that act in the first ...
