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West Virginia State Police schedule Wood County sobriety checkpoint

PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Detachment of the West Virginia State Police and the Commission on Drunk Driving Prevention will conduct a sobriety checkpoint from 6 p.m.-midnight Wednesday, Jan. 8, on W.Va. 47 in Parkersburg, near the state police detachment. The purpose of the checkpoint is ...

Accident closes westbound Juliana Street Bridge lanes temporarily

PARKERSBURG – The Juliana Street Bridge was shut down early this afternoon following a vehicle accident involving a fatality. At 12:45 p.m., a supervisor at the Wood County 911 Center said there was an accident that Parkersburg Police and the Wood County Sheriff’s Department were ...

Two dead, two wounded in Grantsville shooting

GRANTSVILLE — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Saturday for the shooting murders of two people and wounding two others in an incident Saturday morning in Grantsville, West Virginia State Police said. Troopers C.A. Lane and L.E. Whitt were notified by the Calhoun County Emergency Operations ...