PARKERSBURG – A judge has denied a petition for an injunction preventing Parkersburg officials from moving forward with potential contracts for sanitation and recycling services. The order issued by Wood County Circuit Court Judge J.D. Beane this morning says property owner Carole Hanlon’s ...
PARKERSBURG — As City Council prepares to hold two public meetings today dealing with contracts to potentially have private companies take over Parkersburg’s sanitation and recycling services, a property owner is asking a judge to intervene. Carole Hanlon, who lives outside the city but ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports Oct. 27: * Joshua Adam Devere, 425 Juliana St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of transferring/receiving a stolen vehicle and bond was set at $10,000. * Blaine Maxon Mackey III, Waverly, was arraigned on a ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on Dec. 29: Dec. 15 * Sarah V. Lent, 42, of Parkersburg, was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on a felony warrant out of Washington County Common Pleas Court for the charges of failure to appear and ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal accident which occurred Wednesday evening. In a post on its Facebook page Thursday, the Sheriff’s Office reported that about 7:35 p.m. Wednesday, the department, East Wood Volunteer Fire Department and Camden Clark ...
PARKERSBURG — The West Virginia State Police in conjunction with the Commission on Drunk Driving Prevention will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Wednesday, Jan. 7, in Wood County on West Virginia 47 in Parkersburg, near the State Police Detachment. The sobriety checkpoint may move to ...
MARIETTA — Two people have been arrested on felony drug charges by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Mark Warden reported Tuesday that a traffic stop was conducted Monday evening near the intersection of State Route 821 and the Interstate I77 SB off-ramp in Muskingum ...
PARKERSBURG — Law enforcement officials in West Virginia and Ohio are reminding people not to drink and drive this New Year’s Eve as they plan on being more visible throughout that evening. Local law enforcement is planning to make the necessary preparations to patrol and ensure public ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has been charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges in connection with the ambush on November 26 that fatally wounded one of the West Virginia National Guard members and seriously injured the ...
RIPLEY – A Ripley man was arrested after a gunshot incident Saturday, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported on its Facebook page. Phillip Goodwin, 24, is charged with malicious wounding and was incarcerated in the South Central Regional Jail following a close-range shooting in ...
CHARLESTON - West Virginia’s new law banning certain food dyes and additives in food sold in the state doesn’t go into effect until 2028. But a federal judge issued a halt on the law while the case moves through the court system. In a memorandum opinion and order issued Tuesday evening, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said ...
SLATYFORK, W.Va. (AP) — The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash. Timothy Loehmann was ...
Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors acting as violent assailants. The four-on-one drill is a rite of passage for those training to be game wardens, sworn officers who enforce state conservation laws. ...
PARKERSBURG - Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports Oct. 24: * Steven Wayne Brogle, 107 Charleston Drive, Ripley, was arraigned on two counts of second-offense shoplifting. Bond was set at $2,000. * April L. Dennis, 200 Ash St., Williamstown, was arraigned on charges of ...
An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when his body was found, New Hampshire's attorney general's office said Friday Authorities ...
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Professional Charter School Board gave attorneys for two Monongalia County residents a present Thursday: an appeal to the state Supreme Court of Appeals of a lower court ruling pausing the approval of new charter schools and putting current charter schools at ...
PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports Oct. 23: * Zacary Tyler Winans, 500 13th St., Apt. 35, Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of possession of a controlled substance and released on $1,000 bond. * Harold Eugene Burdette II, 218 Chesterville Road, ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was ...