PARKERSBURG — A pedestrian is placed in a Camden Clark Medical Center ambulance after being struck around 12:45 p.m. Tuesday by a vehicle in front of Community Bank on Juliana Street. Parkersburg police and fire also responded. (Photo by Douglass Huxley)
CHARLESTON — For the first time, West Virginia voters will get to select the first elected member of the state Intermediate Court of Appeals. Charleston-based attorney Mychal Schulz announced Tuesday he will run for the first seat up for election on the new appeals court. Speaking by phone ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tearing up as he testified, Donald Trump's former corporate controller said he "gave up" on his longtime job because he was worn out by the company's legal woes. Jeffrey McConney was on the witness stand for a fourth day in six weeks at the ex-president's civil fraud trial ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office released the following reports on Nov. 17. * From Nov. 8-15, deputies answered or responded to 456 calls: 103 traffic stops; 59 speak-to-complainant by phone and in person; 15 domestic calls and domestic protective orders served; 25 traffic ...
Editor's note: The lede of this story has been updated to clarify that the emails in question were not deleted by West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources attorneys. CHARLESTON — Attorneys for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources admitted that a state ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 16: * Robert Cole Wilson, 1041 Meldahl Road, Washington, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana, less than 15 grams, and fined $176.48. * Brandy Nicole Maynard, 22 Cross St., Mineral Wells, pleaded ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County property transfers from Sept. 11 - 15: * Andrew Woofter III PLLCC Sub Trustee and Dennis Shahan II (indirect) to Peoples Bank, all interest Lots 37 and 38 Neal and Smith’s Subdivision, Parkersburg City District, $35,000. * Robin Hannah (indirect), Julie White ...
PARKERSBURG — A man Monday was charged with drug crimes after the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force and Parkersburg Police S.W.A.T. team conducted a search of a south Parkersburg residence, the task force said. Police and agents served the warrant at 1600 Camden Ave., Apt. 2, Parkersburg, ...
MARIETTA — Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Mitch Reynolds has been selected as the Marietta Post’s Trooper of the Year, the post said. Reynolds was chosen for his leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic work attitude and cooperation with ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision that contradicts decades of precedent and could further erode protections ...
RAVENSWOOD — A former high school teacher in Jackson County is in a regional jail after his arrest on Friday on charges of having sexual relations with a student, according to authorities. Brent Michael Jones, 33, was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a student at Ravenswood ...
ATHENS — A Vinton County man died Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in Hocking County. According to a release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Joseph V. Deirfield, 29, of McArthur, was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Corvette south on Middlefork Road near Ohio 180 around 5:32 p.m. Saturday ...
WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Police say a woman is facing a child endangerment charge after her toddler found a gun in her purse and accidentally fired it in a southern Ohio Walmart store last week. The Waverly Police Department said the woman told officers who responded shortly after 11 a.m. ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — For a year, a special New York law has cleared the way for a wave of headline-grabbing lawsuits against famous men accused of sexual misconduct, including former President Donald Trump, hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and the comedian and actor Russell Brand. But when ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 15: * Salnave Blanc Jr., 4400 Grand Central Ave. Apt. 10, Vienna, had a charge of domestic battery dismissed. * A preliminary hearing was waived against Samantha Renae Miller, 1411 Andrew Street Apt. A, ...
MARIETTA — A Marietta man Thursday evening was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter by a judge in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Oscar Hernandez Diaz, 42, pleaded guilty and was sentenced from three to four and a half years in prison for killing Abraham Olvera. Hernandez ...
MARIETTA — A warrant was issued for a woman’s arrest after she did not appear for sentencing on a charge of vehicular homicide Friday morning in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Amy Andermanis, 43, of 1110 Moody Ridge Road, Vincent, was indicted in December 2021 on one count of ...
LOGAN, Ohio — A Hocking County man was charged in an indictment with 21 felonies including attempted aggravated murder for shooting a deputy sheriff deputy and a police dog during a standoff in July, Ohio authorities announced on Friday. Steven Hardbarger, 45, of Logan barricaded himself ...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state's primary ballot because it's unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump 's civil fraud case denied his bid for a mistrial Friday, rejecting claims from the former president's lawyers that the proceedings are poisoned by political bias. Trump's lawyers had argued that Judge Arthur Engoron irreparably harmed Trump's ...