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PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court recently released the following reports: * Josie Elizabeth Grogg, 1917 Gihon Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to welfare fraud, $500 or less, and was sentenced to jail for one year, suspended for two years of unsupervised probation. She was assessed $176.48 and ordered to pay $5,231 restitution to the West Virginia Department of Human Services. * Shawn Richie Jones, 2033 Riser Ridge Road, Walker, pleaded guilty to driving while license is suspended or revoked and possession of a controlled substance and was assessed $562.96. As part of a ...

West Virginia Supreme Court rules in favor of firefighters in lawsuit against Parkersburg

PARKERSBURG – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled this week that the City of Parkersburg was wrong to reduce firefighters’ pay without notice in a 2017 move municipal officials said corrected a six-year-old error. The court issued its ruling in the lawsuit, originally filed in 2018, on Wednesday, with a 4-1 majority ordering reversal of an Intermediate Court of Appeals decision siding with the city. Chief Justice Hailey Bunn dissented, saying the matter should have been decided by a jury. “It’s just very, I guess, frustrating to me that the city has chosen to take ...

1 dead, 1 injured in ATV crash

BARLOW TWP. – One man is dead and a woman was hospitalized after an ATV crash on Memorial Day. Carl B. Hall II, 47, of Cutler was pronounced dead at the scene after a 2020 Yamaha YFZ450 four-wheeler he was operating traveled off the left side of Barlow Township 268 and struck a tree on Monday, according to a release issued Wednesday evening by the Marietta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Passenger Joyel D. Grady, 34, of Cutler, was taken to Marietta Memorial Hospital with life-threatening injuries, the release said. A Memorial Health System representative said Thursday she ...

Magistrate Court records

PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports May 4: * Jason Curtis Harkness, 921 Moyer Ave., Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of strangulation and held on a $50,000 surety bond. * Mitchell Edward Bailey, 246 Tanner Lane, Walker, was arraigned on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender and held on a $150,000 surety bond. * Allyson Marie Tidwell, 3625 Packard St., Apt. 1, Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of domestic battery and released on a $3,000 surety bond. * Stacie Lynne Amick, 627 29th St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on two ...

Magistrate Court records

PARKERSBURG – The following reports were released by the Wood County Magistrate Court on May 3: * Morgan Baldwin, 221 Meadow Lane, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to operation without a certificate or failure to produce a certificate and was assessed $181.48. A charge of expired registration was dismissed. * James Paul Rush, 610 Wilbur St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to first-offense shoplifting. He was assessed $201.48 and a civil penalty of $427.09 paid to Rural King. * Jeffrey Alan Eddy, 928 Newbanks Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to speeding, 52 mph in a 35 mph zone, and was ...

Jackson County Sheriff looking for burglary suspect

RIPLEY – The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a female suspect who was allegedly part of a massive theft from a residence near Evans. The department is involved in an extensive burglary investigation that resulted in two warrants for Samantha Jo Carte and Emily Beth Archer, according to a post on the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department’s Facebook page. “The two individuals entered the home when the owner was away and stole approximately $55,000 worth of numerous guns, large volumes of rare silver coins, and other valuable collectibles,” the post said. ...