PARKERSBURG — The following cases were heard in Wood Magistrate Court on July 31: * Diana Lynn Corbin, 2007 16th St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to driving under suspension and assessed $276.48. Corbin pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance without a valid prescription and ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education is asking the state’s highest court whether lawmakers have any legal authority to approve or reject rules approved by the state board. The state Board of Education filed a lawsuit Friday against Secretary of State Kris Warner seeking a writ ...
GALLIPOLIS — One person was killed in a traffic accident Monday morning near Gallipolis, according to the Gallipolis Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Les Clark, 62, of Gallipolis. was driving a 1995 GMC truck south on State Route 7 where he went left of center and struck a northbound ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were heard in Wood County Magistrate Court on July 25: * Larry Robert Koehler, 703 Locust St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to trespassing in a condemned structure, sentenced to 60 days jail suspended for six months unsupervised probation and assessed ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois leaders went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to Chicago, escalating a clash between Democratic-led states and the Republican administration during an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the nation's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump's robust assertion of executive power. Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over bans ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports July 24: * Colton Dale Poole, 701 33rd St., Parkersburg, waived a preliminary hearing on a third-offense shoplifting charge and the case was transferred to Wood County Circuit Court. A charge of fleeing was ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports Oct. 3: Sept. 22 * Wayne A. Rhodes, 36, of Belpre, was cited for no operator license and arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on a warrant for failure to appear on a seat belt charge through Marietta ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey and West Virginia law enforcement officials on Thursday announced additional operations with federal immigration authorities, as well as a separate action that netted a large amount of narcotics. In a press conference Thursday morning in the Governor’s ...
ELKINS — The pastor of the Summit Church in Elkins was arrested Wednesday and faces a felony charge after allegedly soliciting a minor. Kevin Curtis Jones, 33, is charged with one count of soliciting a minor via computer, a felony, and was being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports July 22: * Charles Dyvanne Estes, Waverly, pleaded guilty to domestic battery, sentenced to 30 days jail and assessed $176.48. He also pleaded guilty to obstruction and assessed $226.48. * Kayla Nicole Hemingway, 2305 ...
MARIETTA — Three Washington County residents were arrested and charged during a week-long, statewide human trafficking operation conducted by more than 100 law enforcement agencies. Corey Noel, 27, of Marietta, was arrested on a charge of falsification and pandering obscenities involving a ...
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizens who protested the war in Gaza was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston agreed with several university associations that the policy they described as ...
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — At least four people were killed and eight injured when a gunman in a pickup truck smashed through the doors of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan during a Sunday service attended by hundreds, opened fire and set the building ...
CHARLESTON — A Kanawha County judge ruled Thursday that the West Virginia Water Development Authority’s $5 million grant to an Ohio-based Catholic trade school for program expansion into the state is constitutional after it was able to show the funding was not going to religious ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports July 17: * Jason Bradley Walker, 825 Seventh St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and trespassing. He was sentenced to jail for 24 hours and assessed $402.96. A charge of obstructing an officer with ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city. On Friday, residents finally learned more about that plan, and it looks to be very different from the ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following cases July 15: * Joshua H. Kerns, 1 Camelot Dr. Apt. 22, Parkersburg, pleaded no contest to having a controlled substance on an access site and fined $196.48. A charge of fishing without a license was dismissed after proof was ...
CHARLESTON — Does the 2023 Equal Protection for Religion Act give Gov. Patrick Morrisey the authority to use an executive order to allow for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s nearly 90-year-old compulsory vaccine law for school-age children? Attorneys for the state want to know. The ...
DALLAS (AP) — A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing one detainee and wounding two others in a transport van before taking his own life, authorities said. The suspect was identified by a ...