UPDATE: On Friday evening, the West Virginia Department of Health announced it had issued a cease-and-desist order on cleanup efforts at the site of the Peoples Cartage warehouse fire on Camden Avenue just outside of Parkersburg due to the potential presence of asbestos. According to a ...
CHARLESTON – The federal judge presiding over a class action lawsuit challenging conditions in West Virginia's foster care system denied a request by state officials to pause the case while seeking clarification from the U.S. Supreme Court, setting a future trial date. U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin issued an order Thursday denying a motion by attorneys representing Gov. Patrick Morrisey and the state Department of Human Services seeking a stay of the lawsuit brought on behalf of children in the state foster care system in 2019. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office and ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia child welfare officials are seeking a stay of proceedings in a long-running lawsuit concerning the state's foster care system following an appeals court decision that reversed a previous dismissal of the case. The West Virginia Attorney General's Office, representing Gov. Patrick Morrisey and officials in the Department of Human Services, filed a motion June 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia seeking a stay on proceedings in R. vs. Morrisey while the state files a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking rulings in ...
WHEELING – An Ohio man who transported methamphetamine to Wetzel County was sentenced this week to 10 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia Matthew L. Harvey announced. Kyle Thomas Bryan, 33, of Warren, was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in prison on a charge of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. According to a release from Harvey’s office, in January 2025, the Marshall County Drug Task Force acted on information from a confidential informant regarding Bryan, who was reportedly traveling from ...
PARKERSBURG - Walker man Bradley Cantwell, 43, was sentenced to a total of 80 years in prison for the murders of a Walker couple from May 2024. “I just want to apologize to the victims' families,” Cantwell said. Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane gave Cantwell the maximum 40 years ...
PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court recently released the following reports on May 14: * Nathaniel David Randolph, 3516 Burke St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty in multiple cases to public intoxication, trespassing, possession of a controlled substance, refusal to submit to fingerprinting or required information, was assessed $905.92 and sentenced to 98 days in jail (eight days already served). As part of multiple plea agreements, charges for trespassing on property other than structure or conveyance, failure to process, two counts of obstruction with threats of harm, misuse of ...
