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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 multiple occasions inside the classroom in October 2023.A lawsuit against the board and Cassandra Diann ...

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 his plea of guilty to a charge of vehicular homicide.  Sukhjinder Singh, 37, of New York, ...

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 sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of Rashad Malik Alton of Morgantown in July ...

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 in the case of Jonathan Ramirez.At 10:54 a.m. on Friday, Judge Perri Jo ...

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 Lough.  The verdict, returned after two days of testimony, pushed the trial into ...