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Records – Wood Magistrate, May 29

PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court recently released the following reports May 29: * Joseph Dominic Schott, 15720 Waterford Road, Waterford, pleaded guilty to speeding (74/65) and was assessed $181.48. * Barbara Jean Edgar, 200 Emerald St., Belmont, pleaded guilty to speeding (70/55) and was assessed $181.48. * Dennis E Shahan II, 1609 Spring St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to receiving or transferring stolen goods and was assessed $211.48. He was sentenced to jail for one year, suspended for one year of unsupervised probation and reporting to the Day Report Center. * ...

Wood County Grand Jury indicts 96 people

PARKERSBURG – The Wood County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday the indictments of 96 individuals by the grand jury. Information on three suspects – Claudia Torres, 20, charged with murder and wanton endangerment involving a firearm; Brian Ray Donze, 52, 10 counts of first-degree sexual assault, 18 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in a position of trust, eight counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of distribution and exhibition of material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct; and Thomas Edward Carpenter, 54, five ...

Picture This: Deputies respond to altercation at Shaver Annex Monday morning

Wood County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the Shaver Judicial Annex Monday morning in response to an incident in a courtroom. Sheriff Rick Woodyard said a juvenile defendant was not complying with instructions and started a physical altercation with court officers. They radioed for ...

Man killed in accident in Washington County

MARIETTA - One man was killed Saturday in a motorcycle accident on State Route 550 in Washington County, according to the Marietta Post of the Ohio state Highway Patrol. Andrew P. Harris, 55, of Hebron, Ohio, was driving a 2021 Harley Davidson Street Glide west on Route 550 at milepost 5 in Fairfield Township where he went off the left side of the road and struck a guardrail, the patrol said. He was thrown off the motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene, the patrol said. The accident happened around 12:15 p.m. The crash remains under investigation, the patrol said. Responding ...

Lawsuit seeks injunction to re-open Harman School

HARMAN – A community nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Randolph County Board of Education illegally sold and closed the former Harman K-12 School, and seeks an injunction to re-open the school. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday afternoon in Randolph County Circuit Court by Hometown Hope, which documents describe as a “domestic non-profit corporation.” The suit states the group “is comprised of taxpayers and parents of students of Randolph County Public Schools,” and lists a Harman address for the group. The Randolph County Board of Education and current ...

Murder suspect among 96 indicted by Wood County Grand Jury

Complete list of indictments PARKERSBURG – A woman who told 911 dispatchers she shot a man three times after he attempted to touch her inappropriately was indicted on charges of murder and wanton endangerment by the Wood County Grand Jury. Claudia Torres, 20, in custody without bond at the ...