CHARLESTON — Making good on campaign promises to challenge federal overreach, new Attorney General J.B. McCuskey joined his first multi-state lawsuit since being sworn in last week as the state’s top attorney.
The Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday that it was joining with 22 ...
MARIETTA — The Washington County Grand Jury indicted 21 people Wednesday, including a former representative from the Washington County Veterans Service Commission.
Ronald Ellis Hudson, 69, 1097 Colegate Drive, Marietta, was indicted on a charge of theft, a fourth-degree felony.
Hudson’s ...
CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of continuing to employ an immigrant living in the country illegally.
According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, John Robert Coe, 66, of ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in a shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, nearly two years after another deadly school shooting in the city that ignited an emotional debate about gun control in Tennessee.
The ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office released the following reports:
* From Jan. 9-15, deputies responded/answered 280 calls, including: 24 traffic stops; 32 speak with complainant by phone or in person; 15 domestic calls/domestic violence protective orders served; 18 traffic ...
CHARLESTON (AP) — A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard farm labor denied confining two of the children to a shed despite police finding them in the structure behind a locked door, news outlets reported.
Jeanne Kay Whitefeather took the stand ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Jan. 9:
* Christopher Wayne Hutson. 1010 Johnson Road, Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, obstruction and fleeing from an officer and held on $4,500 ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on Jan. 13:
Dec. 27
* Zayne A. James, 24, Parkersburg, was cited for expired registration.
Dec. 29
* David L. Rowe, 48, Belpre, was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on a warrant for drug abuse ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform's users even as national security questions persist.
TikTok's China-based parent ByteDance was supposed to find a U.S. buyer or be banned on Jan. 19. Trump's ...
WHEELING — The United States attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia stepped down on Monday.
William Ihlenfeld announced his resignation from the Department of Justice, effective at noon.
“Serving as United States Attorney has been an honor and a privilege,” Ihlenfeld said. ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Jan. 8:
* Oleh Vashchyshyn, 2014 Baintree Court, Brunswick. Ohio, pleaded guilty to speeding (10 mph or less in excess on highway) and fined $181.48.
* Amanda Jane Sams, 825 7th St., Parkersburg, to ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals set a deadline Friday for Gov. Patrick Morrisey and House Speaker Roger Hanshaw to respond to a writ of mandamus filed earlier this week by the state Democratic Party requesting that a Democrat be appointed to the House of Delegates seat ...
PARKERSBURG — The man who was arrested for the deaths of a Walker couple in late May was indicted this week by the Wood County Grand Jury.
The Wood County Prosecutor’s Office released the indictments Friday for 91 defendants.
Bradley Joseph Cantwell, of Walker, was indicted on two counts ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — TikTok said it will have to "go dark" this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won't enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning the app unless it's sold by its ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case denounced efforts to rewrite the history of the U.S. Capitol attack Friday as she handed down what she acknowledged may be one of the final punishments for the Jan. 6 riot before the Republican ...
A former CEO and one of his top executives with an Ohio energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme have been indicted on racketeering charges, federal prosecutors announced Friday.
The former FirstEnergy Corp. executives — ex-CEO Chuck Jones and Senior Vice President ...
The Texas judge who previously halted approval of the nation's most common method of abortion ruled Thursday that three states can move ahead with another attempt to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug mifepristone.
Idaho, Kansas ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani reached a deal Thursday that lets the cash-strapped ex-New York City mayor keep his homes and belongings, including prized World Series rings, in exchange for unspecified compensation and a promise to never again speak ill of two former Georgia elections workers ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Jan. 3–Jan. 7:
* Tina Louise McElfresh, 178 Bently Road, Walker, pleaded guilty to driving on a suspended license and fined $276.48.
* James Russell Dawkins, 200 Mossy Lane, Walker, pleaded no contest to ...
CHARLESTON — A legal fight is brewing over whether to appoint a Republican or a Democrat to the West Virginia House of Delegates seat previously held by Joseph de Soto after the former delegate-elect switched parties prior to facing felony charges for threatening fellow lawmakers.
The ...