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 ...
CHARLESTON – The state Democratic Party is now calling for the chief justice of the West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals to recuse himself from cases involving data centers represented by House Speaker Roger Hanshaw. Hanshaw represents Fundamental Data LLC, the developers of a data ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were released by Wood County Magistrate Court on April 2: * Jade Alicia Bokulich, Belpre, was arraigned on a charge of domestic battery and released on a $2,000 surety bond. * Michael David Thomas, 1807 23rd St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of ...
Wood Magistrate PARKERSBURG — The following cases were released by Wood County Magistrate Court on April 1: * Tyler Edward Mackey, 11 Shepard St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of destruction of property and released on a $500 surety/cash bond. * Rebbecca L. Payton, 119 Dempsey ...
MARIETTA - Local water systems will receive millions of dollars from a $65 million settlement with DuPont over the release of "forever chemicals" into the Ohio River. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and state Environmental Protection Agency Director John Logue announced the $65 million funding ...
The Belpre Police Department released the following reports on April 13: April 6: Caitlyn B. Knotts, 27, of Belpre was cited for expired registration. April 7: Brett D. Davis, 54, of Parkersburg was cited for driving under suspension and fictitious registration. April 8: Alayna D. ...
CHARLESTON - While an appeal remains pending before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals over efforts to insert a religious exemption to the state's school-age vaccine requirements, a three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled in favor of the state's vaccine law in a separate case. A ...
PARKERSBURG – A Walker man will accept the punishment for the murders of a Walker couple from May 2024. Bradley Cantwell, 43, appeared, along with his attorney Joe Munoz, in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane on Monday, to enter into an agreement where he would plead, via an ...
A New Matamoras woman was killed Monday morning in a car accident with a dump truck in Washington County, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Hailey Ball, 25, was killed when her 2005 Ford Focus collided with a 2023 Mack dump truck on Ohio 7 at Archers Fork Road (Washington County 14) in ...
GRANTSVILLE – Two Parkersburg residents were charged last week following an investigation into multiple burglaries in Calhoun County, the West Virginia State Police Grantsville Detachment said. Caleb Wayne Hart, 36, and Julie Shay Spry, 34, were identified as suspects and were arrested after ...
RIO GRANDE – A horse pulling an Amish buggy was killed in an auto accident Friday night in Gallia County, the Gallipolis Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The accident occurred on Ohio 325 near Wolf Road where the Amish buggy was traveling north and was being followed by an orange ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law banning talk therapy ...
Vermont’s effort to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage caused by climate change was tested Monday in a federal courtroom, where the state argued that two lawsuits challenging its groundbreaking 2024 law should be thrown out. Vermont became the first state to enact a climate superfund ...
PARKERSBURG — Two individuals were taken by ambulance to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash at Ohio and Emerson avenues around 6 p.m. Sunday, according to a dispatcher with the Wood County 911 Center. The call for the accident was made at 6:14 p.m. with the Parkersburg Police, a Wood ...
CHARLESTON – Months after West Virginia’s highest court stayed a ruling by a Raleigh County circuit judge allowing for religious exemptions to the state’s compulsory vaccination law for school-age children, parties in the case are making their case for the lower court ruling to be ...
PARKERSBURG — A jury on Friday found a Belmont woman guilty of second-degree murder in the March 2025 shooting death of a Williamstown man with whom she had been in a relationship. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated about four hours Friday afternoon before returning the ...
PARKERSBURG – A jury today found a Belmont woman guilty of second-degree murder in the March 2025 shooting death of a 37-year-old Williamstown man with whom she had been in a relationship. The jury deliberated about four hours this afternoon before returning the verdict. The defendant, ...