NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein 's sex trafficking case, joining two other judges who declined to release similar records from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Board of Education took the next step to appeal a lower court ruling that kept in place a religious exemption to the state’s compulsory immunization law for the children of three Raleigh County parents. Attorneys for the state Board of Education filed an ...
PARKERSBURG — The mother of a 22-year-old woman killed in a February off-road vehicle crash has filed a civil lawsuit in Wood County Circuit Court, alleging negligence against a former Parkersburg police officer, his mother and the estate of another individual who died in the wreck. The ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 9: * Loren Russell Cullum, 940 Pleasant Home Road, Belleville, was arraigned on a charge of failure to yield and released on a $500 personal recognizance bond. * Martin Gale Collins II, 1312 21st St., ...
CHARLESTON – Alleging that it was the true “architect” of West Virginia’s substance use disorder crisis first fueled by prescription opioids, Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a lawsuit against the owners of Express Scripts. In a press conference Monday morning, McCuskey ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on Aug. 18: Aug. 13 * Jennifer L. Gwynn, 51, of Parkersburg, was cited for expired registration. * Shawn R. Britton, 36, of Marietta, was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on the charge of possession ...
MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) — A shooting in southern West Virginia on Monday left two people dead including a suspected gunman, along with three others wounded, police said. Fayette County Sheriff Jess McMullen said the shooting happened in Mount Carbon. Police found the suspected gunman dead ...
CHARLESTON — Opponents of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law for school-age children were dealt a blow last month when their case was dismissed for technical reasons. But they are filing their second ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District's police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement ...
MARIETTA — A juvenile in a work release program faces new charges after allegedly stealing a Washington County vehicle this week. Sheriff Mark Warden said that on Tuesday afternoon, a juvenile in the work release program left the work area, gained access to a Washington County juvenile court ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on June 6-8: * Taylor Alexis Lamp, 1833 Kesterson Ridge Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to speeding and fined $181.48. * Jacob Russell Modesitt, 383 O’Dell Lane, Parkersburg, had a preliminary hearing waived ...
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 ...