WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay. Prosecutors were responding to a Trump team request from earlier in the week asking for a ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Police Department released the following reports Feb. 14: Feb. 4 * Kennith A. Bay, 35, of Belpre, was arrested and taken to the Washington County Jail on the charge of fugitive from justice out of Wood County. * Matthew L. Griffin, 35, of Belpre, was arrested and taken ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 5: * Johnny Lee Bell, 344 Rosedale Court, Detroit, Mich., pleaded guilty to having no operators license and fined $181.48. * Jody Alan Bartram, 114 Market St., Pennsboro, was arraigned on a charge of ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Feb. 2-4: * Michael David Sams, Lot 60 Meadowbrook Acres, Parkersburg, was arraigned on charges of third-offense shoplifting, battery of a government representative or healthcare personnel (three counts) and ...
PARKERSBURG — Justin Keel was found guilty Monday of felony murder in the May 2022 shooting death of Terrence (T.J.) Mills Jr. The six-man, six-woman jury delivered their verdict in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge Jason Wharton just after 3 p.m. Monday following three days of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in his election interference trial, saying he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss. His lawyers filed an emergency appeal with the court on Monday, ...
HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter at a Texas megachurch on Sunday had a history of mental illness and brought their young son to the attack that was carried out using an AR-style rifle and ended in an exchange of gunfire with two off-duty officers, authorities said Monday. Houston police ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge extended a block on enforcement Monday of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps as a legal challenge proceeds. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley's decision to grant a preliminary ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives were indicted Monday in the long-running investigation into a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker. Former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and former ...
HOUSTON (AP) — A woman in a trenchcoat opened fire with a long gun Sunday inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Texas, sending worshippers rushing to find safety while two off-duty officers confronted and killed the shooter. Two other people were shot and injured, including a ...
PARKERSBURG — The case of the man accused of murdering another man over a backpack of marijuana is in the hands of the jury. Both the state and defense rested their cases Friday in the trial of Justin Keel, also known as George Smith, who is charged with the May 17, 2022, shooting death of ...
An Ohio city has dropped criminal charges against a pastor over his around-the-clock ministry to the homeless and others in need of help while the two sides work to end the dispute that has landed in federal court. A municipal prosecutor this week moved to dismiss code violation charges ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio city agreed this week to a settlement with a former K-9 officer and a truck driver involved in an attack last year, video of which garnered national attention and raised questions about the use of dogs to apprehend suspects. Records shared with The ...
RIPLEY — A Ripley man is being charged with the death of an infant, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department announced in a press conference Thursday. John Michael Tames, of Ripley, was arraigned Monday on a count of death of a child by parent, guardian or custodian after 3-month-old ...
PARKERSBURG — Ammunition found in the Parkersburg apartment of a man charged with the May 2022 murder of Terrance (T.J.) Mills Jr. is the same kind of bullets as spent shell casings found at the scene of where the shooting took place, a Parkersburg Police detective testified ...
MARIETTA — Two candidates spoke in front of Washington County residents at the Washington County Sheriff’s Debate Wednesday night at Washington State College of Ohio. Current Chief Deputy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Mark Warden and former Washington County Jail ...
BELPRE — A Belpre man was arrested Wednesday and charged with rape after reports of sexual assault of an adult female, according to a press release from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Rodney Duane James, 56, had allegedly been sexually assaulting the victim since she was a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Joe Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen, including about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, but concluded that criminal charges ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to reject attempts to kick former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, with conservative and liberal justices in apparent agreement in a case that puts them at the heart of a presidential election. A definitive ruling for Trump, the ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice are seeking to block a Virginia bank from plans to auction off land at the governor's posh resort to recover more than $300 million on defaulted business loans. A complaint seeking an injunction was filed ...