MARIETTA — After a two-week trial, a Waterford man was found guilty this week of four counts of aggravated murder and two counts of murder in the killing of a mother and her young son 30 years ago. Scott Hickman, 53, was found guilty on all counts against him in the 1995 murders of ...
CHARLESTON — Even as soldiers with the West Virginia National Guard begin arriving in Washington, D.C., to meet President Donald Trump’s call to help quell crime in the nation’s capital, a lawsuit could undo that deployment. The West Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union ...
MARIETTA — A Washington County Grand Jury indicted 11 defendants Thursday morning at the Washington County Courthouse. Those indicted included: * Joseph Lee Kellison, no age listed, Belpre, was indicted on a count of domestic violence, a fourth-degree felony, from July 2. * Timothy Wayne ...
CHARLESTON — The U.S. District Court in Charleston recently sentenced two Parkersburg men to prison in separate cases. Michael David Enoch, 33, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 10: * Tyler James Francis, 1026 Ball School Road, Parkersburg. had charges of driving on a suspended license, operating a vehicle without an inspection certificate and having no insurance dismissed with ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after serving decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989. A panel of California commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out President Donald Trump's massive financial penalty while narrowly upholding a judge's finding that he engaged in fraud by exaggerating his wealth for decades. The ruling spares Trump from a potential half-billion-dollar fine but ...
MARIETTA — Scott Hickman, 53, was found guilty on four counts of aggravated murder and two counts of murder for the 1995 deaths of Kimberly Fulton, 28, and her 17-month-old son Daniel Fulton on Wednesday. The verdict was delivered after two weeks of trial before Washington County Common ...
CHARLESTON — With two lawsuits pending in two different counties involving whether Gov. Patrick Morrisey can use an executive order to allow for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law, state officials are seeking to consolidate the cases now that one of them has ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein 's sex trafficking case, joining two other judges who declined to release similar records from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education took the next step to appeal a lower court ruling that kept in place a religious exemption to the state’s compulsory immunization law for the children of three Raleigh County parents. Attorneys for the state Board of Education filed an ...
PARKERSBURG — The mother of a 22-year-old woman killed in a February off-road vehicle crash has filed a civil lawsuit in Wood County Circuit Court, alleging negligence against a former Parkersburg police officer, his mother and the estate of another individual who died in the wreck. The ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 9: * Loren Russell Cullum, 940 Pleasant Home Road, Belleville, was arraigned on a charge of failure to yield and released on a $500 personal recognizance bond. * Martin Gale Collins II, 1312 21st St., ...
CHARLESTON – Alleging that it was the true “architect” of West Virginia’s substance use disorder crisis first fueled by prescription opioids, Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a lawsuit against the owners of Express Scripts. In a press conference Monday morning, McCuskey ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on Aug. 18: Aug. 13 * Jennifer L. Gwynn, 51, of Parkersburg, was cited for expired registration. * Shawn R. Britton, 36, of Marietta, was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on the charge of possession ...
MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) — A shooting in southern West Virginia on Monday left two people dead including a suspected gunman, along with three others wounded, police said. Fayette County Sheriff Jess McMullen said the shooting happened in Mount Carbon. Police found the suspected gunman dead ...
CHARLESTON — Opponents of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law for school-age children were dealt a blow last month when their case was dismissed for technical reasons. But they are filing their second ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District's police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement ...
MARIETTA — A juvenile in a work release program faces new charges after allegedly stealing a Washington County vehicle this week. Sheriff Mark Warden said that on Tuesday afternoon, a juvenile in the work release program left the work area, gained access to a Washington County juvenile court ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 6-8: * Taylor Alexis Lamp, 1833 Kesterson Ridge Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to speeding and fined $181.48. * Jacob Russell Modesitt, 383 O’Dell Lane, Parkersburg, had a preliminary hearing waived ...