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Wood County Grand Jury issues indictments

PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg man accused of multiple sexual assault and abuse charges was one of 56 people indicted Wednesday by the Wood County Grand Jury. Jesse Aaron Stephens, 44, of Parkersburg was charged with 11 counts of first-degree sexual assault; 15 counts of sexual abuse by a ...

Parkersburg man gets probation, fined $75K for immigration crime

CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man was sentenced this week to three years of federal probation and ordered to pay $75,000 to a foreign national who lived and worked without pay at his business for 10 years. Frederick Sayre Anderson, 65, of Parkersburg, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District ...

Federal judge orders NIOSH kept open

MORGANTOWN — A federal judge issued an injunction Tuesday to bring a halt to the reduction-in-force notices issued to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health employees in Morgantown. Meanwhile, one of West Virginia’s congressional representatives received direct answers on ...