Greene man charged with homicide in 2025 death
A Nemacolin man is charged with homicide after he was accused of severely assaulting a woman he lived with in May 2025. Several witnesses told investigators that Jerome Rafail, 51, had a history of assaulting 31-year-old Shayla Black before the assaults that led to her death in May, according to court documents. Charges against Rafail were filed Tuesday with District Judge Lee Watson. Police said Black had numerous visible injuries, a broken jaw and significant wounds on both shins when they responded to the report of a woman who had stopped breathing at 258 Grant St. in Nemacolin during the early morning hours of May 19. An autopsy on Black conducted by Dr. Jennifer Hammers ...
A Westmoreland County man is accused of assaulting his ex-boyfriend after a verbal argument in Bullskin Township Saturday morning. Robert Shawley, 38, of Donegal, is charged with aggravated assault and simple assault. Joseph Bowersox told police Shawley got into an argument with him around 2 ...
The last of the three missing passengers from a boat that collided with a barge in the Monongahela River Sunday night has been recovered, a state Fish and Boat Commission spokesman said Wednesday. The Greene County coroner's office identified the victims Wednesday morning as Eric Rockwell, ...
Charges were filed Monday against a Brownsville man accused of kidnapping and assaulting his ex-girlfriend and her grandmother. Tylar Greenough, 30, is charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping to inflict injury/terror, burglary, unlawful restraint causing serious injury and terroristic threats. Elisa Tressler and Diane Tressler reported Greenough to Uniontown police after Greenough left for work on the morning of Aug. 31, three days after he is accused of breaking into Elisa Tressler鈥檚 home on Lincoln Street. After entering the home, Greenough began beating both women, saying he was angered by Elisa Tressler鈥檚 relationship with another man, according to the ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� The emotions and state of mind of Pirates fans was hard to gauge as they slowly streamed out of PNC Park on Tuesday night. What they had just witnessed was hard to put into words. It was a rollercoaster of a game against the lowly San Francisco Giants that finally ended with ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 鈥� The college football season is officially underway. West Virginia football鈥檚 2026 season is still a few days from starting when it opens against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 5, and so are the rest of the FBS schools, but there were games last weekend in Week 0. A couple of ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) 鈥� Joey Porter Jr.'s balky back felt good enough to return to practice for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday. At the moment, his health appears to be the least of his concerns. The fourth-year cornerback didn't commit to playing in Pittsburgh's season opener against ...
The Civil War brought tremendous suffering. The death of Robert J. Brownfield is illustrative. Cpl. Brownfield of Fayette County was shot in the arm near Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Forgotten or simply overlooked, he went unattended for a full day. Taken first to Fredericksburg, ...
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