PARKERSBURG – The West Virginia State Police have released the names of the man killed Saturday evening after reportedly exchanging gunfire with Parkersburg and Wood County law enforcement, and the woman whose body was found in the residence. The incident happened after Parkersburg Police ...
PARKERSBURG - One person was killed in an officer-involved shooting during an exchange of gunfire with Parkersburg Police and Wood County Sheriff's deputies Saturday night, and another body was found at the scene. The second individual is believed to have been dead prior to officers' initial ...
PARKERSBURG – A Parkersburg man was indicted for murder and related charges on Friday by the Wood County Grand Jury. Butch Wayne Knight, 19, currently in the North Central Regional Jail, was accused of the Dec. 8 shooting of Bradi Florence in an incident on Belmont Road in South ...
CHARLESTON - The U.S. Department of Justice said in a legal filing Thursday that it has the right to access unredacted voter registration files held by the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office. Attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a memorandum Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in response to a motion filed at the end of April by attorneys for Secretary of State Kris Warner, which sought to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the DOJ seeking unredacted voter registration files. Harmeet K. Dhillon, a U.S. assistant attorney ...
PARKERSBURG – The Wood County Sheriff’s Department is continuing its investigation into a fatal two-vehicle collision that occurred Wednesday at the intersection of Robert C. Byrd Highway and Progress Ridge Road, according to a post to the Wood County Sheriff’s Department’s Facebook ...
DEERWALK – One person was killed Wednesday and two others injured in an accident involving a trailer carrying lumber and a pickup truck. The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. on U.S. 50 near Progress Ridge Road. The Wood County Sheriff’s Office had not issued a release or report on the ...
