GRANTSVILLE — A Calhoun County commissioner and teacher was arrested Friday and charged with sexual abuse. According to a criminal complaint filed in Calhoun County Magistrate Court, Jacob Daniel McCumbers, 39, of Arnoldsburg, was charged with sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey laid out his argument to the U.S. Supreme Court defending the state’s law meant to keep transgender girls and women from competing with biological girls and women in public school and college athletics. The Attorney General’s ...
WELLSBURG — A Wellsburg man has been sentenced to life in prison, without chance of parole, after pleading guilty to the murder of his father, a death that had been called a suicide 37 years ago. The sentence for James Edward Adams Sr., 63, of Wellsburg, was complicated initially by ...
PALESTINE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State Police are investigating a human skull and other remains found over the weekend in Wirt County. Troopers were notified Sunday afternoon that a squirrel hunter discovered a skull off Courtney Ridge Road in Palestine, according to a statement ...
PARKERSBURG — A release from Wood County Schools said the district responded to a potential threat at Parkersburg High School Sunday. The release said on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 13, Wood County Schools received information regarding a potential threat directed at Parkersburg High ...
ATHENS COUNTY — One person is dead following a head-on collision in Athens County Sunday morning, the Athens Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Monica Leigh Perani, 27, of Corning, Ohio, in Perry County, was traveling northwest on State Route 682 in a 2024 Nissan Sentra when her ...
