MORGANTOWN – Christian Areford, a former North Elementary teacher’s aide facing charges for allegedly mistreating two disabled children, is suing the Monongalia County Board of Education. The lawsuit filed April […]
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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 […]
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 to friend: ‘I killed her’
MORGANTOWN – John Claburn went clammy with shock when he regarded Joe Nevera’s passenger on the evening of May 12, 2024. It was the lifeless body of Kim Osborne, he […]
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 […]
‘Honey, he’s going to hurt you some day’: Testimony in Nevera murder trial begins
MORGANTOWN – Joseph Nevera sat expressionless in a Monongalia County courtroom Monday afternoon while convenience store video surveillance of the woman he is accused of murdering was projected onto a […]
Westover Council receives updates on civil cases, pump station project
WESTOVER – Attorney Tim Stranko, representing the city of Westover, said he’s confident that a recent Monongalia County Circuit Court ruling bodes well for the city regarding a separate, but […]
DOH: Green Bag roundabout schedule ‘at the mercy of the court’
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia Division of Highways District 4 Manager Earl Gaskins said it remains unclear when construction will begin on the long-discussed, and debated, roundabouts at two Green Bag […]
