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Records – Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports May 6: * Tonya Venise Moore, 981 Collins Road, Little Hocking Ohio, pleaded guilty to speeding in a school zone and was assessed $276.48. * Joshua Lane Hurley, 817 West Virginia Ave., Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of domestic battery and released on a $10,000 surety bond. * Christina Ann Atkinson, 1806 14th Ave. Apt. 6, Vienna, was arraigned on charges of domestic battery and released on a $3,000 surety bond. * Jacklyn Marie Forester, no address given, was arraigned on a charge of being a fugitive ...

Records – Wood Magistrate

Wood Magistrate Court May 7 PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court recently released the following reports on May 7: * Kevin Phillip Ramey, 4102 9th Ave. Apt. 3, Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of burglary and held on a $50,000 surety bond. In another case, he was arraigned on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent of transporting into jail and was held on a $35,000 surety bail. * Charles Roger Conkle Jr, was arraigned on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in Washington County Ohio, for domestic violence, and held without bond in Wood ...

Sen. Justice’s attorneys respond in state case over Greenbrier’s future

CHARLESTON – Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family continue to argue that a Texas-based hotel chain and Virginia bank colluded to transfer the family’s loan debt on the historic Greenbrier Resort in order to take it away. Attorneys for the Justice family filed a consolidated reply on June 5 in response to previous filings by attorneys for TRT Holdings and Carter Bank and Trust in a case filed by the Justices in Greenbrier County Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the two companies. The state case was filed in April by the Justice family following a ...

New Martinsville man sentenced to prison

WHEELING – A New Martinsville man has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for soliciting child sexual abuse material, U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey of the Northern District of West Virginia said in a news release Tuesday. The investigation began after a social media platform submitted a cyber tip to law enforcement reporting it had identified known child sexual abuse material, Harvey said. Investigators determined that Jon Talkington, 37, New Martinsville, had uploaded images and videos of the material to the platform in an effort to obtain additional files from other ...

W.Va. foster care lawsuit still alive after federal appeals court decision

CHARLESTON - A federal class action lawsuit filed during the administration of former governor Jim Justice challenging the condition of West Virginia's foster care system is alive again following a ruling Thursday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2025 judgment issued by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin dismissing a class-action lawsuit brought in 2019 on behalf of thousands of foster children in West Virginia. "Because federal courts not only have the authority, but also a duty, to remedy systemic constitutional rights violations, we ...

Pierce extradited, booked in Wood County in connection to Fleming case

PARKERSBURG - Preston Pierce, who has been charged in Wood County in connection with the murder of Gretchen Fleming, was extradited back to Parkersburg to face charges returned by a Wood County Grand Jury in May. Pierce has been held in custody in Buncombe County, N.C., since his arrest on ...