CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate. Mark Holdren, 41, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and Johnathan Walters, 33, was sentenced to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child's birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken ...
CHARLESTON — A circuit court judge in Kanawha County sided with the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday, granting an injunction for West Virginia taxpayer funds going to an Ohio-based Catholic-affiliated trade school program. After a hearing Wednesday morning in Charleston, Eighth ...
CHARLESTON — A lawsuit brought by several inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system raising issues about conditions under the previous administration of former governor Jim Justice was dismissed by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit published an ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of a man found July 4 in the Ohio River. In a Facebook post, officials reported the body of a man found on July 4 in the Ohio River has been identified as Thomas Vernon Basim, 45, of Belpre. Basim’s family was ...
PARKERSBURG — Two men were arrested Tuesday on drug charges following a traffic stop. The Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force reported that it conducted a traffic stop Tuesday on a vehicle on Interstate 77, near the W.Va. 2 exit. The driver was identified as Austin Gabritch, 30, of Vienna, ...
