Drug Court celebrates graduations

May 5, 2026

PARKERSBURG - The Wood County Juvenile Drug Court will graduate its 99th, 100th and 101st graduates at 4 p.m. Wednesday, the second court in West Virginia to reach the milestone. The local Juvenile Drug Court accepted its first participant in November 2010 and is the second longest continuously operating Juvenile Drug Court in West Virginia. The drug court generally meets weekly in the courtroom of the presiding judge, Family Court Judge Darren Tallman. The case coordinator is Larry Whitehair of the Wood County Juvenile Probation office. The program has 15 participants at any one time ...

More filings in Greenbrier Resort case

May 4, 2026

CHARLESTON - Attorneys for a Texas-based hotel company filed new documents in federal court over the weekend amending their requests for a judge to place U.S. Sen. Jim Justice's Greenbrier Resort into receivership and block any interference by the Justice family in the historic hotel's ...

Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State makes case for dismissing DOJ voter registration lawsuit

May 1, 2026

CHARLESTON – Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner asked a federal judge this week to dismiss an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize unredacted voter registration information. In a legal memorandum filed Wednesday evening with the U.S. District Court ...

Truck rollover closes portion of US 50 outside Parkersburg

May 1, 2026

PARKERSBURG - A tractor-trailer rig overturned Thursday morning around mile marker 6 in the eastbound lane of U.S. 50, not far from the Division Street exit. It spilled its load of non-hazardous material and led to a temporary closure of the main roadway. Driver Ryan Patrick Wole of ...

Attorneys for Justice-owned Greenbrier file amended complaint against owners of Omni Hotels

April 30, 2026

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 ...

Scam warned by state and local authorities

April 27, 2026

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 ...