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Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 19: * Candace Mowery, 1305 Lost Pavement Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to issuing worthless checks and fined $340.48. He had a charge of obtaining property in return for a worthless check on a ...

Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 18: * Wayne Sherman Bair III, 467 Gates Ridge Road, Rockport, had a preliminary hearing waived on two counts of sex offender registration violation. The case was sent to Wood County Circuit Court. * ...

Lawsuit filed over drowning of foster child in Wood County

PARKERSBURG — The mother of a 3-year-old boy who left his foster parents’ house and drowned in the Little Kanawha River last summer has filed a wrongful death suit against the foster parents and the West Virginia Department of Human Services. The suit was filed Thursday in Wood County ...

Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 14-17: * Levi William Barker, C/O 3506 Camden Ave., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to second offense shoplifting, fined $176.48 and sentenced to six months in jail with a credit of nine days for time served. ...

Washington County Grand Jury issues 21 indictments

MARIETTA — Twenty-one people were indicted by the Washington County Grand Jury this week, including James Wiley Miller. Miller, 41, 1201 38th St., Parkersburg, was indicted on charges of safecracking (fourth-degree felony), theft from a person in a protected class (fifth-degree felony), ...

Wood Magistrate

PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 13: * Lesley Deanne Hall, 1202 Lockwood St. Apt B, Belpre, had a charge of possession of a controlled substance dismissed after a successful deferred sentence agreement. * Charles William Clark, 26 Wills ...