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CHARLESTON – A former teacher and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to grooming and sexual activity with a minor. Elliott Pritt, 36, of Oak Hill, is charged with sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a child, and tampering with a witness, victim or informant, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Moore Capito. Pritt was arrested July 22 on the enticement charge and resigned from the House less than a week later. He was elected in ...

Attempted murder, kidnapping among Washington County Grand Jury indictments

MARIETTA – A Marietta man was indicted on a charge of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing another man on Sunday. Ernesto Antonio Gomez, 60, 123 Sunset Drive, was one of 19 people indicted this week by the Washington County Grand Jury. Gomez was charged with first-degree felony ...

All three Tucker County Commissioners plead not guilty at hearing

PARSONS – All three Tucker County Commissioners entered not guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges in circuit court Tuesday morning. Tucker County Commission President Michael William Rosenau, Commissioner Frederick J. Davis Jr., and Commissioner Timothy Paul Knotts are each charged with one ...

Memorial awarded $5M in lawsuit against Camden Clark

PARKERSBURG – A federal jury found Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corp. liable for one count each of civil conspiracy and vicarious liability and awarded Memorial Health System $5 million in compensatory damages. The verdict was reached Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in Wheeling following a trial that began Aug. 5. “Memorial Health System is pleased that after a decade of investigation and appeal a jury has found Camden Clark Medical Center guilty of conspiracy and vicarious liability against Marietta Memorial Hospital,” the health ...

Lawsuits in fatal fire combined, Gold dismissed as defendant

PARKERSBURG – A judge granted a motion to consolidate two lawsuits arising from the same fatal 2023 fire and dismissed an individual defendant. Wood County Circuit Court Judge Jason Wharton heard a number of motions Monday regarding a civil case resulting from a 2023 fatal fire that claimed ...