PARKERSBURG — Officials are closing down both the southbound and northbound traffic on Grand Central Ave. after a transformer pole caught on fire. The incident happened at the Speedway station at 1604 Grand Central Ave. Emergency crews on the scene reported the pole was completely ...
PARKERSBURG — Foods and desserts of different varieties were sampled at the Parkersburg News and Sentinel’s 66th Annual Cookbook Contest tasting party Wednesday at Rockport Church of Christ. Although the setup was a little different than previous years, the tradition was kept alive with ...
CHARLESTON — In what is likely the first and only time the two candidates will meet face-to-face before next week’s Nov. 3 election, Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Democratic challenger Sam Brown Petsonk sat down to debate. Morrisey and Petsonk traveled to Morgantown on ...
CHARLESTON — The COVID-19 death toll in West Virginia has risen by four. In its daily update Wednesday, the state Department of Health and Human Resources announced the confirmation of the deaths of a 77-year-old Upshur County man, a 73-year-old Mercer County man, an 85-year-old Cabell ...
PARKERSBURG — On Wednesday evening, Wood County Schools officials were asking students at Parkersburg South High School to operate remotely today in light of an individual testing positive for COVID-19, according to a press release from the Wood County Board of Education. Staff will report ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — In honor of the 19th anniversary of those lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the “Garden of Freedom” was unveiled at Williamstown Middle/High School on Wednesday afternoon. The garden is a joint project between Lori Daugherty’s sixth-grade science enrichment class ...
PARKERSBURG — The latest offering from the Actors Guild of Parkersburg will stream live this weekend, just in time for Election Day. A seven-member cast will present “The Outsider,” a comedy about an unlikely lieutenant governor thrust into his state’s highest office, on Saturday ...
MARIETTA — Washington State Community College has consolidated its student services to one area of campus in an effort to take the stress out of enrollment and ultimately strengthen student success. The new centralized space, called the Student OneStop, houses admissions, College Credit ...
CHARLESTON — A multi-agency law enforcement effort in West Virginia and Ohio resulted in the recovery of 45 missing children, three of them found in Jackson County. According to a release from the U.S. Marshals Service, marshals in the Southern Districts of West Virginia and Ohio conducted ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Board of Education announced that parents will have three options in sending their children to school in a unanimous decision during the board’s meeting Tuesday at Jefferson Elementary Center. The process will start on Nov. 9 for elementary schools and the ...
PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force was recognized Tuesday as the Drug and Violent Crime Task Force of the Year for West Virginia’s Southern District. Mike Stuart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, presented the award during Tuesday’s Parkersburg ...
CHARLESTON — A federal challenge to Gov. Jim Justice’s authority during the COVID-19 state of emergency was thrown out Tuesday, following three state-level challenges to Justice’s executive orders. U.S. District Judge John Bailey issued an order Tuesday denying a motion for injunctive ...
From staff reports CHARLESTON — Eight COVID-19-related deaths were reported by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources on Tuesday, bringing the statewide total during the pandemic to 432. In its daily update on the novel coronavirus, DHHR announced the deaths of an ...
POMEROY — A large amount of marijuana was found Sunday by local law-enforcement in Long Bottom, the Meigs County Sheriff’s Department reported. Meigs County Sheriff Keith Wood reports deputies with his office executed a search warrant at 36608 and 36612 School House Road in Long Bottom ...
HARRISVILLE — Two new elementary schools have the potential to break ground if Ritchie County residents vote for the bond that would help provide the funding for the projects. On Nov. 3, Ritchie County voters will decide whether or not to approve the school construction bond. ...
HARRISVILLE — Ritchie County Schools is continuing its efforts to keep the school community safe and kids in school during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Superintendent Jim Brown, for the first five weeks of the school year, no positive cases were reported within the school system. ...
BELPRE — Belpre City Schools held its third virtual town hall meeting Tuesday to provide an update on the community and the school year thus far. “I am so grateful for everybody and what we are doing at a local level,” Superintendent Jeffrey Greenley said. “The good news for Belpre ...
PARKERSBURG — Trial has been set for the man accused of the September 2019 murder of Parkersburg resident Karen Yeager. Dominick McClung, 18, in custody at the Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center in Boone County, is scheduled to go to trial April 6 before Judge Jason Wharton following a hearing ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s two U.S. senators were on opposite sides of the vote for federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett for justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Republican and Democratic candidates weighed in with Barrett hearing arguments on the Affordable Care Act next month. The U.S. ...
CHARLESTON — With less than a week until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3, voters wishing to vote by absentee ballot need to get their applications into the hands of county clerks today. West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner gave the first of several daily election briefings Tuesday ...