WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation's capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington's "emergency police commissioner" with all the powers of the police chief — a significant move that ...
PARKERSBURG — State law enforcement and corrections officials will be working with federal officials to address the issue of illegal immigrants throughout West Virginia. Gov. Patrick Morrisey was at the Parkersburg Correctional Center on Wednesday to announce an agreement between the U.S. ...
CHARLESTON — With high school football beginning, the West Virginia Board of Education is also prepared to suit up to take on an injunction over the state compulsory immunization law for school-age children at conflict with an executive order by Gov. Patrick Morrisey allowing for religious ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wary Washington waited, the White House promised a ramp-up of National Guard troops and federal officers on the streets of the nation's capital around the clock this week after President Donald Trump's unprecedented announcement that his administration would take ...
PARKERSBURG — Three individuals took a big step Monday in regaining control over their lives and building stronger family ties with their loved ones. The Wood County Family Treatment Court held a graduation ceremony Monday for three people who completed its program, which was also attended ...
ELIZABETH — A plane crash was reported Friday in a remote area of Wirt County, according to a release from the Elizabeth-Wirt Volunteer Fire Department on Monday. The four-seat passenger airplane was flying from Arkansas and found by members of the fire department around 6 p.m. Friday off ...
PARKERSBURG — A Walker man was killed Friday afternoon by a bulldozer, the Wood County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday. Killed was Ronnie Paul Fleming, 82, Walker, the sheriff’s office said. At about 12:30 p.m., the sheriff’s department, Camden Clark EMS and the Eastwood Volunteer ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with bullets piercing "blast-resistant" windows and spattering glass shards into numerous rooms, according to information circulated internally ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Outside the Bronx mosque where a New York City police officer was eulogized last week, a group of officers in their formal navy blue uniforms solemnly hung a banner bearing the young officer's photograph and the name of his fraternity, the Bangladeshi American Police ...
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, a law enforcement ...
CHICAGO (AP) — One called abortion a "barbaric practice." Another referred to himself as a "zealot" for the anti-abortion movement. Several have played prominent roles in defending their state's abortion restrictions in court and in cases that have had national impact, including on access to ...
MARIETTA — Waterford resident Scott Hickman is currently on trial in connection with a Washington County double homicide that occurred in 1995 involving the death of Kimberly Fulton, 28, and her 17-month-old child Daniel. The courtroom was packed during the fourth day of the trial Friday ...
CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man is paying restitution and fines for immigration crime. John Robert Coe, 66, of Parkersburg, paid $54,740 in restitution and a $500 fine for continuing to employ a known illegal alien. According to court documents and statements made in court, from early 2011 ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia shot and killed a knife-wielding man in a hospital emergency room after he attacked an employee early Friday, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. at Charleston Area Medical Center's General Hospital in Charleston, Police ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal organization challenging President Donald Trump's administration on multiple fronts filed a new lawsuit on Friday seeking the release of records detailing the handling of the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The group Democracy Forward sued the ...
MARIETTA — The Washington County Grand Jury indicted 23 people this week, including two residents from Malta. Tony Ray Fischer, 63, 2031 Rabbit Goins Lane, Malta, and Kelly Scott Goins, 45, 1917 Rabbit Goins Lane, Malta, were indicted on one third-degree felony count each of burglary, grand ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 3: * Heather Dawn Lucas, 907 Pike St. Lot A, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to violation of a protective order, fined $426.48 and sentenced to 30 days in jail which was suspended and she was placed on six ...
A 61-year-old man shot and killed his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania Thursday and then ambushed first responders, wounding two state troopers and causing an EMT to crash a vehicle while firing dozens of rounds from a semiautomatic weapon, police said. The attacker was later killed by ...
A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company's Washington Works plant in West Virginia. "Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life, and human ...
MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary halt to construction at an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — as attorneys argue whether it violates environmental laws. The facility can continue to ...