Drug Court celebrates graduations

May 5, 2026

PARKERSBURG - The Wood County Juvenile Drug Court will graduate its 99th, 100th and 101st graduates at 4 p.m. Wednesday, the second court in West Virginia to reach the milestone. The local Juvenile Drug Court accepted its first participant in November 2010 and is the second longest continuously operating Juvenile Drug Court in West Virginia. The drug court generally meets weekly in the courtroom of the presiding judge, Family Court Judge Darren Tallman. The case coordinator is Larry Whitehair of the Wood County Juvenile Probation office. The program has 15 participants at any one time ...

More filings in Greenbrier Resort case

May 4, 2026

CHARLESTON - Attorneys for a Texas-based hotel company filed new documents in federal court over the weekend amending their requests for a judge to place U.S. Sen. Jim Justice's Greenbrier Resort into receivership and block any interference by the Justice family in the historic hotel's ...

Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State makes case for dismissing DOJ voter registration lawsuit

May 1, 2026

CHARLESTON – Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner asked a federal judge this week to dismiss an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize unredacted voter registration information. In a legal memorandum filed Wednesday evening with the U.S. District Court ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appoints Washington County Prosecutor Nicole Coil to Common Pleas Court seat

May 1, 2026

Washington County Prosecutor Nicole Coil has been appointed to serve as a judge on the Washington County Court of Common Pleas, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mark Kerenyi. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the appointment Thursday. Coil will assume office May 26 in the ...

Attorneys for Justice-owned Greenbrier file amended complaint against owners of Omni Hotels

April 30, 2026

CHARLESTON - Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family updated a lawsuit filed against a national hotel chain to accuse the company of attempting to replace employees of the historic Greenbrier Resort with workers from a nearby hotel and eliminate competition. The Justice family, the ...

Washington County Grand Jury indicts 21

April 24, 2026

MARIETTA - The Washington County Grand Jury this week announced the indictments of 21 individuals, mostly on drug-related charges. The defendants include: * Michael Jay Bond, 39, 3306 Central Ave., Parkersburg; two third-degree felony counts of having weapons while under disability, each with a specification for forfeiture of a weapon, and a fifth-degree felony count of aggravated possession of drugs, methamphetamine from August. * Co-defendants Casey Steven Taylor Jr., 34, 4060 Sugar Run Road, Marietta; Zachary Ryan Taylor, 26, 2300 Sand Hill Road, Marietta; and Kaylan Renea Wallace, ...