MARIETTA — Authorities have released more information about the body that was discovered on the west bank of the Muskingum River in Harmar on Tuesday evening. According to Marietta Police Captain Ryan Huffman the body was discovered by a coach. “A coach for the Marietta College crew team ...
CHARLESTON — A Virginia-based bank that loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice has successfully moved a lawsuit by the governor to stop the collection from West Virginia to Virginia. U.S. District Judge Frank W. Volk issued a memorandum opinion and ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police began peacefully arresting student protesters at the University of Southern California Wednesday evening, hours after police at a Texas university violently took dozens of demonstrators into custody in the latest clashes between law enforcement and those ...
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports: April 8 * Everett Swiger, 43, of Parkersburg, was arrested and transported to Washington County Jail on fail to appear warrants for the charges of driving under OVI suspension and expired registration. April 9 * Kelly ...
PARKERSBURG – The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 15: * Christina Joy Martin, 30 Iron stone Ct. Apt. F, Annapolis, Md., pleaded guilty to shoplifting and fined $201.48. She was ordered to pay a $139.66 civil penalty to the Walmart store in Vienna. * ...
PARKERSBURG — The following property transfers were recorded in Wood County between March 11-15: * Jordan Thornhill to Isaac C. Colgrove, part tract lot 13 Camden Farms addition number two and lot 0.20 acres Stella Street less right of way, Parkersburg City District, $70,000. * Elmer LLC ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at the start of the former president's historic hush money trial. "This was a planned, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can punish people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking. It's the most significant case before the high court in decades on the ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 12-14: * Robert Joseph Brown, Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of domestic battery and held on $1,000 bond. * Joshua Arthur Goodwin, 39 Triana Lane, Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of driving ...
PARKERSBURG — Investigation of a shooting Saturday resulted in the arrests of four people, including the victim. Parkersburg Police officers were dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to an apartment in the 1600 block of Tygart Street for a report of a shooting with injuries, a release from the ...
PARKERSBURG — The following property transfers were recorded in Wood County between March 11-15: * Clifford R. Lynch (also known as Clifford Lynch), Iva Marie Lynch (also known as Marie Lynch), Corda E. Thompson (indirect) and Leslie E. Thompson (indirect) to Virginia Rose Morrison, lot ...
CHICAGO (AP) — As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch. The Republican National Committee, newly reconstituted under Trump, has filed election-related lawsuits in nearly ...
MARIETTA — One person was arrested Friday night during an OVI checkpoint on Ohio 7 near Washington County 9 by the Ohio State Highway Patrol Marietta Post with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and the Marietta Police Department, the patrol reported. The checkpoint, funded by a ...
PARKERSBURG — The following property transfers were recorded in Wood County from March 4-8: * Melrose Family Trust, Mark A. Melrose (trustee) and J. J. Melrose (indirect) to Jeffrey Payne and Melody Melrose, all interest tract 70.82 acres and tract seven acres and tract 65 3/10 acres, ...
PARKERSBURG — A Washington County man died Thursday after a wrong-way collision outside Parkersburg. Ishmael Smith, 84, of Little Hocking, was found dead at the scene of the crash around 2:47 p.m. Thursday at mile marker 6 in the eastbound lanes of Robert C. Byrd Highway, according to a post ...
PARKERSBURG — A man who fled from police Thursday evening was apprehended early Friday morning. Brandon Cody Burton, 24, of Parkersburg, was charged with fleeing from an officer on foot and fleeing from an officer in a vehicle after being taken into custody, according to a release from the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and an appellate judge rejected the former president's latest bid to halt the case as a hectic day in court set the stage for opening statements to begin Monday. The panel of New Yorkers who will decide ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on April 11: * Michael David Enoch, 607 33rd St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to driving on a suspended license and fined $276.48. A charge of improper registration was dismissed. * Corey John Phelps-Apostolec, ...
PARKERSBURG — The following property transfers were recorded in Wood County from March 4-8: * G. Russell Rollyson Jr. Deputy Commissioner of Delinquent and Non Entered Lands of Wood County West Virginia and Ross Family Investments LLC (indirect) to Appcom LLC, part tract block F. A. C. ...