CHARLESTON - Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family updated a lawsuit filed against a national hotel chain to accuse the company of attempting to replace employees of the historic Greenbrier Resort with workers from a nearby hotel and eliminate competition. The Justice family, the ...
PARKERSBURG - State and local authorities over the weekend warned residents of a scam about owing traffic and parking fines. At least one Wood County resident reported she received the official-looking text message that said she owed a fine in the Kanawha County Municipal Court and the ...
PARKERSBURG – A Waverly man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of wanton endangerment after allegedly firing a gun at a man with whom he was in a dispute. Christen Hall, 24, was in custody Friday afternoon at the Wood County Holding Facility on a $520,000 bond following his arrest Thursday evening, according to a release from Parkersburg Police Chief Matthew Board. At approximately 5:26 p.m. Thursday, Parkersburg Police officers responded to the 900 block of Lynn Street in reference to a report of a person with a firearm, the release said. Upon arrival in less than two ...
MARIETTA - The Washington County Grand Jury this week announced the indictments of 21 individuals, mostly on drug-related charges. The defendants include: * Michael Jay Bond, 39, 3306 Central Ave., Parkersburg; two third-degree felony counts of having weapons while under disability, each with a specification for forfeiture of a weapon, and a fifth-degree felony count of aggravated possession of drugs, methamphetamine from August. * Co-defendants Casey Steven Taylor Jr., 34, 4060 Sugar Run Road, Marietta; Zachary Ryan Taylor, 26, 2300 Sand Hill Road, Marietta; and Kaylan Renea Wallace, ...
BELPRE - The Belpre Police Department released the folowing reports on April 20: April 13: Teresa L. Suck, 70, Ravenswood, was cited for expired registration. April 14: Michalle R. Perkins, 40, of Parkersburg was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on the charges of domestic violence and disrupting public service. April 16: Christopher M. Rhodes, 40, Vienna, was cited for assured clear distance ahead. Travis J. Barber, 37, of Reedsville was served a theft warrant out of Belpre Mayor’s Court. Caiden M. Cooley, 19, of Bloomingdale, Ohio, was cited for ...
PARKERSBURG – The plaintiff in a lawsuit over Parkersburg’s suspension of curbside recycling is asking a judge to prohibit the city from entering into a contract for a subscription-based program with Rumpke and order the reinstatement of curbside recycling. Parkersburg resident Walt Auvil filed the lawsuit in July after the city suspended its curbside recycling service in May, citing manpower issues. In an amended complaint filed 10 days later and a motion filed March 27, Auvil, an attorney, says the city has violated state code requiring cities with a population of 10,000 or more ...
