PARKERSBURG — The man charged in the 2014 murder of Cindy Ball will remain in jail after a Wood County judge denied a motion for bond on Monday. Gregory Alan Casto, 56, of Walker, has been held in the North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge County following his arrest on Oct. 21 after a ...

MARIETTA - The Supreme Court of Ohio will hear oral arguments on eight cases Nov. 18–19, including a dispute over hydraulic-fracturing waste in Southeast Ohio and the proposed approval of a major solar facility in Logan County, according to Court News Ohio, a service of the Supreme Court of ...

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports Sept. 23: * Joshua David Chichester, 1444 Jesterville Road, Vienna, was arraigned on charges of registration violation, no insurance, no registration and driving under suspension and released on $1,000 bond. * ...

CHARLESTON – A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child neglect and abuse cases. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of ...

PARKERSBURG – The man arrested in October for a 2014 murder will remain in jail without bond, a judge ruled this morning. Gregory Alan Casto, 56, of Walker, was indicted by a grand jury last month on charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a deceased human body in the killing of ...

PARKERSBURG – The West Virginia Supreme Court reversed a decision by a Wood County Circuit Court judge to deny a motion to suppress and had a suspect’s drug convictions vacated. In an order dated Nov. 12, the court reversed a decision by Wood County Court Judge J.D. Beane in the June 2022 ...