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Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports Sept. 24: * Nathaniel Patrick Woicinski II, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to harassment, assessed $176.48 and sentenced to six months home confinement. Two counts of harassing by computer or phone were dismissed, as was ...

Reedsville man charged with attempted murder

WILLIAMSTOWN — A Reedsville man was charged with attempted murder after an incident early Sunday morning in the parking lot at Go Mart on Highland Avenue, the Williamstown Police Department said. Christopher William Browning, 36, was accused of attempting to kill two employees at the Go ...

Parkersburg man sentenced to prison for sexual abuse of minors

PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg man was sentenced this week to 20-100 years imprisonment on four counts of sexual abuse in the first degree. Patrick Vaughn Frazier, 70, North Central Regional Jail, appeared Monday before Wood County Circuit Judge Robert Waters for sentencing after reaching a ...

Judge denies suspect bond in Ball murder case

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 ...

Ohio Supreme Court to hear cases on injection wells, solar farm proposal

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 ...