MARIETTA — The Washington County Sheriff Republican primary race will be decided by provisional and absentee ballots.
On Tuesday night the unofficial election results from the Washington County Board of Elections showed 10,879 votes were cast, with Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark ...
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A dizzying volley of courtroom maneuvers over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally sowed confusion at the nation's border with Mexico on Wednesday as sheriffs, police chiefs and migrants waited for ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican lawmakers across the country were already jockeying to push their states deeper into immigration enforcement when the Supreme Court, if only briefly, let Texas enforce a new law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border ...
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market.
Travis John Branson pleaded ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on March 13:
* Andrea Leigh McDonough, 72 Oak Drive, Parkersburg, pleaded no contest to speeding and fined $181.48.
* Ernest F. White, 1104 Thomas St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to having no seat belt and fined ...
VIENNA — The Vienna Police Department released the following reports March 18:
March 8
* Brian S. Lent of Vienna was arrested on charges of driving on a suspended license and speeding.
March 13
* Joshua E. Skinner of Washington was arrested on a charge of maintaining a vehicle for the ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission Monday approved the reinstatement of a former Wood County deputy sheriff as part of a settlement in a lawsuit against the county and a former sheriff.
The commission agreed to sign-off on the reinstatement of Sgt. Della Matheny to the Sheriff’s ...
CHARLESTON — A lower court erred in taking the word of the state Tax Division that it didn’t have to comply with a public documents request, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Monday morning.
The Supreme Court issued an opinion reversing and returning a lawsuit to Kanawha ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office Monday investigated a drive-by shooting in Mineral Wells, the office reported.
The incident was reported shortly before 5 p.m. when Wood County E911 received a call of a drive-by shooting in the area of Post Mill Way in Mineral Wells, the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court asked West Virginia's highest court Monday whether opioid distributions can cause a public nuisance as it reviews a landmark lawsuit against three major U.S. drug distributors accused of causing a health crisis in one of the state's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday continued to block, for now, a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out.
A one-page order signed by Justice ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Kristel Candelario, 32, had pleaded guilty last month to aggravated ...
An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions ...
PARKERSBURG — The reinstatement of a former Wood County sheriff’s deputy who recently settled a lawsuit with the county is on the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the Wood County Commission.
The item listed on the agenda for Monday, March 18 is at 9:30 a.m. the commission will “Consider ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It's been nearly four decades since liberal-leaning justices held a majority on Ohio's supreme court.
Democrats hope this is the year that changes, in a campaign that will begin to take shape with Tuesday's primary. They'll be choosing a candidate to compete for an ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on March 11:
* Justin Alan Hofmeister, 34 Valley Drive, Vienna, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a protective order, fined $176.48 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, which was suspended for six months ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal trial was delayed Friday until at least mid-April as the judge seeks answers about a last-minute evidence dump that the former president's lawyers said has hampered their ability to prepare their defense.
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement should have seized a man's guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine's deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.
An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to Army reservist Robert Card killing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the court, ...
PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg South High School teacher was arrested Thursday on charges of sexual abuse related to his work as a middle school basketball coach.
Dwain Sponseller, 40, of Parkersburg, turned himself in to Parkersburg Police Thursday and was charged with seven counts of sexual ...