WELLSBURG — A Wellsburg man has been sentenced to life in prison, without chance of parole, after pleading guilty to the murder of his father, a death that had been called a suicide 37 years ago. The sentence for James Edward Adams Sr., 63, of Wellsburg, was complicated initially by ...
PALESTINE, W.Va. – The West Virginia State Police are investigating a human skull and other remains found over the weekend in Wirt County. Troopers were notified Sunday afternoon that a squirrel hunter discovered a skull off Courtney Ridge Road in Palestine, according to a statement ...
PARKERSBURG — A release from Wood County Schools said the district responded to a potential threat at Parkersburg High School Sunday. The release said on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 13, Wood County Schools received information regarding a potential threat directed at Parkersburg High ...
ATHENS COUNTY — One person is dead following a head-on collision in Athens County Sunday morning, the Athens Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. Monica Leigh Perani, 27, of Corning, Ohio, in Perry County, was traveling northwest on State Route 682 in a 2024 Nissan Sentra when her ...
BECKLEY — A ruling on a permanent injunction to block local and state education officials from rejecting religious vaccine exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory vaccine law as mandated by Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s January executive order is likely still weeks away. Thursday marked the ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Grand Jury on Thursday returned indictments against 91 people, including one charged with murder and two charged with attempted murder. Barbara Cupp, 33, 717 Riverview Drive, Apt. 408, Belmont, was indicted on charges of murder and persons prohibited from ...
