WATERFORD – Waterford High School physical education teacher Matthew Ryan Warden was charged with two counts of assault to a student and arrested May 7 just after 5 p.m., according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office jail roster and Marietta Municipal Court documents. According to ...
CHARLESTON – Gov. Patrick Morrisey said his executive order creating a pathway for religious exemptions to West Virginia's compulsory vaccine law for school-age children is protected by existing religious freedom laws. In an amicus brief filed Monday with the West Virginia Supreme Court of ...
ELIZABETH — On Sunday, at approximately 2:50 p.m., Trooper T. C. Winters responded to a single vehicle crash, on Little Kanawha Parkway near Chestnut Run Road in Elizabeth. Upon arrival, Winters learned that a vehicle driven by Steve Boggs, 59, of Grantsville, was traveling west on Little ...
MARIETTA - The Washington County Grand Jury this week announced the indictments of 11 individuals, mostly on drug-related charges. The defendants include: * Tiffany Kenzie Dawn Boso, 21, 1005 State Route 555, Little Hocking; a fifth-degree felony count of obstructing official business ...
PARKERSBURG – As guests gathered at the Wood County Resiliency Center this week to celebrate the 100th graduation from the county’s Juvenile Drug Court program, Family Court Judge Darren Tallman didn’t just tell them how the program works. He showed them. Before honoring the 99th, 100th ...
MARIETTA - Washington County Sheriff Mark Warden, alongside sheriffs from Morgan, Athens, Meigs, Monroe, and Noble counties, announced access to congressionally directed spending funds totaling $454,000 for southeast Ohio. Warden said with help from the county commissioners and various ...
An Akron man was arrested this week and charged with possession of fentanyl and methamphetamine, the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force announced. At approximately 9:40 p.m. Wednesday, agents with the task force initiated a traffic stop on a 2018 Chevrolet Cruze on Camden Avenue, near the East ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 for ...
Washington County Prosecutor Nicole Coil has been appointed to serve as a judge on the Washington County Court of Common Pleas, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mark Kerenyi. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the appointment Thursday. Coil will assume office May 26 in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 message ...
PARKERSBURG – A Waverly man has been charged with more than a dozen counts of wanton endangerment after allegedly firing a gun at a man with whom he was in a dispute. Christen Hall, 24, was in custody Friday afternoon at the Wood County Holding Facility on a $520,000 bond following his ...
MARIETTA - The Washington County Grand Jury this week announced the indictments of 21 individuals, mostly on drug-related charges. The defendants include: * Michael Jay Bond, 39, 3306 Central Ave., Parkersburg; two third-degree felony counts of having weapons while under disability, each with ...
BELPRE - The Belpre Police Department released the folowing reports on April 20: April 13: Teresa L. Suck, 70, Ravenswood, was cited for expired registration. April 14: Michalle R. Perkins, 40, of Parkersburg was arrested and transported to the Washington County Jail on the charges of ...
PARKERSBURG – The plaintiff in a lawsuit over Parkersburg’s suspension of curbside recycling is asking a judge to prohibit the city from entering into a contract for a subscription-based program with Rumpke and order the reinstatement of curbside recycling. Parkersburg resident Walt Auvil ...
MARIETTA – A man walking on Ohio 821 in Salem Township late Friday night was struck by a car and killed, the Marietta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Joseph Harriman, 27, of Lower Salem was walking north on Ohio 821 near milepost 7 where he was struck by a 2010 Ford Edge driven ...
WHEELING — Two people were sentenced Friday to prison terms of up to five years for concealing the remains of a man whose body went undiscovered for nearly two years, authorities said. Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney Shawn R. Turak said Christopher Riley and Sara Riley were sentenced Friday ...