CHARLESTON — A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a firearm in U.S. District Court. According to court documents and statements made in court, on Dec. 15, 2024, Michael David Enoch, 33, possessed a Taurus model PT111 G2 9mm semiautomatic pistol in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported. The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco ...
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was "unlawful." U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is the first judge to rule that the ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 9: * Gary Wayne Johnson, 910 Dr Judy Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to expired registration and fined $181.48. * Taylor Dawn Rust, 603 Buckeye St. Apt 101, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to expired ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma. Roberts was the only justice whose vote seemed in doubt after the court heard more than two hours of ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 4-6: * John Dennis Philpott, 1409 St Marys Ave, Parkersburg, had a preliminary hearing waived for a charge of receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle. The case was sent to Wood County Circuit Court. * ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — As members of the Le family headed out the door to enjoy music, food and camaraderie at the annual Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver over the weekend, their 16-year-old son decided to instead stay home to finish homework. Then news began arriving ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Murder charges were filed Sunday against a suspect in a weekend car ramming attack that killed 11 people between the ages of 5 and 65 at a Filipino heritage festival in the city of Vancouver, a tragedy that shook Canada on the eve of a federal ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 3: * Rhonda Renee Patterson, 2600 27th Ave., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to possessing a controlled substance without a valid prescription after an unsuccessful LEADS program sentence, fined $176.48 and ...
PARKERSBURG — A gathering in Parkersburg wanted to bring awareness to child abuse and prevention measures during Children’s Memorial Flag Day on Friday. Over 100 people gathered around the fountain outside the Holmes Shaver Judicial Annex to commemorate Children’s Memorial Flag Day as ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The FBI on Friday arrested a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and local authorities over the Republican president's sweeping immigration crackdown. Milwaukee County Circuit Court ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that a labor union says would cancel collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that a key ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Nineteen states that refused to comply with a Trump administration directive aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools went a step further Friday, filing a federal lawsuit challenging what they consider an illegal threat to cut ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty Friday to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty, and the judge warned Justice Department officials to refrain from making public ...
PARKERSBURG — A Vienna man has pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend in July 2024. Hearl Thomas Collins, 32, pleaded guilty this week before Wood County Circuit Judge Jason Wharton to charges of first-degree murder and child neglect creating a substantial risk of ...
The Trump administration was handed a rapid-fire series of court losses Wednesday night and Thursday in lawsuits filed over its policies on immigration, elections and its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools. But the legal disputes playing out across the country are ...
PARKERSBURG — Officials with a non-profit organization dealing with mental health are hoping Wood County will join in getting first-responders training on how to better respond to calls where someone is in a mental health crisis. A meeting was held Wednesday at the Wood County Resiliency ...
The company that owned the railcar that caused the devastating East Palestine train derailment in 2023 won't have to help pay for the $600 million settlement Norfolk Southern agreed to with residents. An Ohio jury decided Wednesday that GATX isn't liable for the settlement even though the ...
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Survivors recounted the horror a gunman caused when he fired dozens of bullets at a 2022 Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, detailing during a sentencing hearing for the man on Wednesday how they fled, hid inside businesses or treated the wounded packed into ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A dozen states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy. The lawsuit said the policy put in place by President Donald Trump ...