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Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following cases July 15: * Joshua H. Kerns, 1 Camelot Dr. Apt. 22, Parkersburg, pleaded no contest to having a controlled substance on an access site and fined $196.48. A charge of fishing without a license was dismissed after proof ...

ACLU-WV seeks summary judgment in vaccine religious exemption case

CHARLESTON — While focus remains on a lawsuit filed by Raleigh County parents seeking a permanent injunction against local and state education officials requiring them to accept their granted religious exemptions to the compulsory vaccine law, motions were filed in the Kanawha County case ...

Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG - Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports July 9: * Rafael Russell Delgado, Parkersburg, had a charge of possession of a controlled substance without a valid prescription dismissed since the case was incorrectly charged, per a plea agreement. * Jordan Ray ...

Parkersburg man gets 5 years for federal drug crime

CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man was sentenced Monday to five years in prison on a federal charge of distributing methamphetamine. Aaron Lee Mitter, 39, must also serve five years of supervised release, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District ...

Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports July 2: * Jeffrey Richard Cox, Mineral Wells, had a domestic battery charge dismissed due to the alleged victim not wanting to pursue charges. * Michael Randy Showalter, 130 Cross Creek Lane, Mineral Wells, had ...