PARKERSBURG – A Walker man will accept the punishment for the murders of a Walker couple from May 2024. Bradley Cantwell, 43, appeared, along with his attorney Joe Munoz, in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane on Monday, to enter into an agreement where he would plead, via an ...
A New Matamoras woman was killed Monday morning in a car accident with a dump truck in Washington County, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Hailey Ball, 25, was killed when her 2005 Ford Focus collided with a 2023 Mack dump truck on Ohio 7 at Archers Fork Road (Washington County 14) in ...
GRANTSVILLE – Two Parkersburg residents were charged last week following an investigation into multiple burglaries in Calhoun County, the West Virginia State Police Grantsville Detachment said. Caleb Wayne Hart, 36, and Julie Shay Spry, 34, were identified as suspects and were arrested after ...
RIO GRANDE – A horse pulling an Amish buggy was killed in an auto accident Friday night in Gallia County, the Gallipolis Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The accident occurred on Ohio 325 near Wolf Road where the Amish buggy was traveling north and was being followed by an orange ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy ...
Vermont’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change was tested Monday in a federal courtroom, where the state argued that two lawsuits challenging its groundbreaking 2024 law should be thrown out. Vermont became the first state to enact a climate superfund ...
PARKERSBURG — Two individuals were taken by ambulance to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash at Ohio and Emerson avenues around 6 p.m. Sunday, according to a dispatcher with the Wood County 911 Center. The call for the accident was made at 6:14 p.m. with the Parkersburg Police, a Wood ...
CHARLESTON – Months after West Virginia’s highest court stayed a ruling by a Raleigh County circuit judge allowing for religious exemptions to the state’s compulsory vaccination law for school-age children, parties in the case are making their case for the lower court ruling to be ...
PARKERSBURG — A jury on Friday found a Belmont woman guilty of second-degree murder in the March 2025 shooting death of a Williamstown man with whom she had been in a relationship. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated about four hours Friday afternoon before returning the ...
PARKERSBURG – A jury today found a Belmont woman guilty of second-degree murder in the March 2025 shooting death of a 37-year-old Williamstown man with whom she had been in a relationship. The jury deliberated about four hours this afternoon before returning the verdict. The defendant, ...
PARKERSBURG — A potential referendum has prevented Waste Management from signing a nearly $15 million sanitation service contract, Parkersburg’s city attorney said during a hearing over the ongoing petition effort Thursday. The process will last a little longer after Wood County Circuit ...
PARKERSBURG – A Parkersburg man was taken into custody today after reportedly barricading himself in a closet. At approximately 10:40 a.m., officers with the Parkersburg Police Department responded to a residence in the 700 block of 30th Street in an effort to serve two felony arrest ...
PARKERSBURG — Barbara Cupp was either a woman scorned who fatally shot Matthew Bills for cheating on her or a woman in a life-and-death struggle that ended with Bills’ death, attorneys argued at the start of her murder trial Tuesday. A six-man, eight-woman jury was seated in the courtroom ...
PARKERSBURG — A Belmont woman is preparing to go to trial this week for the killing of a Williamstown man in March 2025. Jury selection took place Monday in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge Robert Waters. Barbara Cupp, 33, was charged last fall with murder and being a person ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. A ruling, likely to come by late June, that bars counting ballots arriving after ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were released by Wood County Magistrate Court on Dec. 3: * Payton A. Wilson,1503 Michaelis Road, Marietta, was arraigned on charges of an insufficient flotation devices violation and having an unregistered/expired boat registration and released on a $500 ...
BELPRE - The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on March 16: March 5 * David L. Abbott, 86, of Washington, W.Va., was cited for assured clear distance ahead and expired registration. March 9 * Bradley M. Gill, 26, of Waterford was cited for driving under suspension and ...
MARIETTA — A Little Hocking man has been indicted by the Washington County Grand Jury on charges related to the death of a 19-month-old child. Dalton Corey Drummond, 33, 103 Pine Drive, Little Hocking, was charged with endangering children, aggravated possession of drugs and reckless ...
RIPLEY — A man authorities say shot his father in the face with a crossbow was arraigned late Thursday afternoon in Jackson County Magistrate Court. Chase Fleming, 35, 79 Aspen Ridge, Apt. 1, Gay, was arraigned Thursday on a charge of malicious assault before Magistrate Timra Milhoan. He is ...
PARKERSBURG — The following divorce petitions were filed in January with the Wood County Circuit Clerk’s Office: * Tresa Marie Cremeans and Michael Joe Cremeans * Shannon Lynn Kimes and Christopher Douglas Kimes * Blenda Glada Lalone and Corey Stephen Racine * Tori Renee Depue and ...