CHARLESTON — A lower court erred in taking the word of the state Tax Division that it didn’t have to comply with a public documents request, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled Monday morning. The Supreme Court issued an opinion reversing and returning a lawsuit to Kanawha ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office Monday investigated a drive-by shooting in Mineral Wells, the office reported. The incident was reported shortly before 5 p.m. when Wood County E911 received a call of a drive-by shooting in the area of Post Mill Way in Mineral Wells, the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court asked West Virginia's highest court Monday whether opioid distributions can cause a public nuisance as it reviews a landmark lawsuit against three major U.S. drug distributors accused of causing a health crisis in one of the state's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday continued to block, for now, a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out. A one-page order signed by Justice ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio mother whose 16-month-old daughter died after being left home alone in a playpen for 10 days last summer while she went on vacation was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole. Kristel Candelario, 32, had pleaded guilty last month to aggravated ...
An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions ...
VIENNA — The Vienna Police Department released the following reports March 18: March 8 * Brian S. Lent of Vienna was arrested on charges of driving on a suspended license and speeding. March 13 * Joshua E. Skinner of Washington was arrested on a charge of maintaining a vehicle for the ...
PARKERSBURG — The reinstatement of a former Wood County sheriff’s deputy who recently settled a lawsuit with the county is on the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the Wood County Commission. The item listed on the agenda for Monday, March 18 is at 9:30 a.m. the commission will “Consider ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It's been nearly four decades since liberal-leaning justices held a majority on Ohio's supreme court. Democrats hope this is the year that changes, in a campaign that will begin to take shape with Tuesday's primary. They'll be choosing a candidate to compete for an ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on March 11: * Justin Alan Hofmeister, 34 Valley Drive, Vienna, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of a protective order, fined $176.48 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, which was suspended for six months ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's New York hush-money criminal trial was delayed Friday until at least mid-April as the judge seeks answers about a last-minute evidence dump that the former president's lawyers said has hampered their ability to prepare their defense. Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Law enforcement should have seized a man's guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine's deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday. An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to Army reservist Robert Card killing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the court, ...
PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg South High School teacher was arrested Thursday on charges of sexual abuse related to his work as a middle school basketball coach. Dwain Sponseller, 40, of Parkersburg, turned himself in to Parkersburg Police Thursday and was charged with seven counts of sexual ...
PARKERSBURG — The following property transfers were recorded in Wood County from Feb. 26 to March 1. * Mark S. Carpenter and Cynthia L. Carpenter to Mark S. Carpenter (co-trustee), Cynthia L. CArpenter (co-trustee) and Mark and Cynthia Living Trust, all interest in lot 86 Woodhurst Heights ...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The father of a Michigan school shooter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, a second conviction against the teen's parents who were accused of failing to secure a gun at home and doing nothing to address acute signs of his mental turmoil. The jury ...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected one bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors said Thursday they are open to delaying the start of Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial by a month "in an abundance of caution" to give the former president's lawyers time to review evidence they only recently obtained from a previous federal ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court March 7: * Karen Marie Reynolds, 2106 17th St., Parkersburg, had a preliminary hearing waived on charges of manufacture or possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (Schedule I or II narcotic or ...
GRANTSVILLE - New charges have been filed against a Calhoun County bus driver who was involved in a crash that injured several students. Jeffrey Brannon, 54, of Arnoldsburg, was originally arraigned in Calhoun County Magistrate Court with three counts of DUI causing bodily injury and three ...