PARKERSBURG – A Wood County sheriff’s deputy has been cleared in a May shooting that left an armed suspect dead. Evidence related to the incident was presented to the Wood County Grand Jury during a recent special session, according to a statement from the jury’s foreperson released ...
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is joining a consortium of states filing separate lawsuits against the parent company of ChatGPT over concerns that the artificial intelligence company’s technology poses risks for children. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Mason County Circuit Court against California-based OpenAI Global LLC and seven affiliated corporate entities. The complaint alleges that OpenAI violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and other state laws through deceptive marketing, unsafe ...
CHARLESTON - A conflict between a circuit judge's efforts to raise awareness about systemic child welfare staffing issues and the regulatory boundaries established by the West Virginia Code of Judicial Conduct made its way to the state's highest court Wednesday. The West Virginia Supreme ...
PARKERSBURG – A Parkersburg woman is being held without bond after being arrested last week for first-degree murder in a shooting last week in Parkersburg. Samantha Deem, 33, of Parkersburg appeared in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge Jason Wharton this week where the judge ordered ...
MARIETTA – A Marietta man was indicted on murder and other charges relating to a recent home invasion in which two people were shot, one of whom later died as a result of his injuries. Baxter L. Grimes, 50, was one of 20 defendants listed in indictments handed down by the Washington County Grand Jury on Thursday. Grimes faces 20 counts related to the crime: aggravated murder and murder, both unclassified felonies with firearm specifications; two first-degree felony counts of aggravated burglary and one each of attempted aggravated murder with firearm specifications, attempted murder ...
MARIETTA - A bond hearing for Baxter Grimes was initially moved from Marietta Municipal Court to the Washington County Common Pleas Court. Grimes was initially arrested as a suspect in a home invasion in which two elderly residents were shot. Both victims were taken to a local hospital, ...
