MARIETTA — Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Mitch Reynolds has been selected as the Marietta Post’s Trooper of the Year, the post said. Reynolds was chosen for his leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic work attitude and cooperation with ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision that contradicts decades of precedent and could further erode protections ...
RAVENSWOOD — A former high school teacher in Jackson County is in a regional jail after his arrest on Friday on charges of having sexual relations with a student, according to authorities. Brent Michael Jones, 33, was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a student at Ravenswood ...
ATHENS — A Vinton County man died Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in Hocking County. According to a release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Joseph V. Deirfield, 29, of McArthur, was driving a 2002 Chevrolet Corvette south on Middlefork Road near Ohio 180 around 5:32 p.m. Saturday ...
WAVERLY, Ohio (AP) — Police say a woman is facing a child endangerment charge after her toddler found a gun in her purse and accidentally fired it in a southern Ohio Walmart store last week. The Waverly Police Department said the woman told officers who responded shortly after 11 a.m. ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — For a year, a special New York law has cleared the way for a wave of headline-grabbing lawsuits against famous men accused of sexual misconduct, including former President Donald Trump, hip hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs and the comedian and actor Russell Brand. But when ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 15: * Salnave Blanc Jr., 4400 Grand Central Ave. Apt. 10, Vienna, had a charge of domestic battery dismissed. * A preliminary hearing was waived against Samantha Renae Miller, 1411 Andrew Street Apt. A, ...
MARIETTA — A Marietta man Thursday evening was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter by a judge in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Oscar Hernandez Diaz, 42, pleaded guilty and was sentenced from three to four and a half years in prison for killing Abraham Olvera. Hernandez ...
MARIETTA — A warrant was issued for a woman’s arrest after she did not appear for sentencing on a charge of vehicular homicide Friday morning in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Amy Andermanis, 43, of 1110 Moody Ridge Road, Vincent, was indicted in December 2021 on one count of ...
LOGAN, Ohio — A Hocking County man was charged in an indictment with 21 felonies including attempted aggravated murder for shooting a deputy sheriff deputy and a police dog during a standoff in July, Ohio authorities announced on Friday. Steven Hardbarger, 45, of Logan barricaded himself ...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado judge on Friday found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state's primary ballot because it's unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump 's civil fraud case denied his bid for a mistrial Friday, rejecting claims from the former president's lawyers that the proceedings are poisoned by political bias. Trump's lawyers had argued that Judge Arthur Engoron irreparably harmed Trump's ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 14: * Marion R. Beull, 121 Joy St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to false pretenses, fined $176.48 and sentenced to 90 days in jail which was suspended and Buell was placed on one year of unsupervised ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges Thursday in the trial of a former Louisville police officer charged in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial. Brett Hankison was charged with ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home last year of federal charges for seeking to hold her hostage and attacking her husband with a hammer. Jurors deliberated for about eight hours before finding ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 9 and 13: * Kathy Sue Logston, 2509 36th St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to a cell phone violation, having no seatbelt and fined $125. * Timothy Rhyne Chambers, 584 Ulysses Road, St. Albans, pleaded ...
MARIETTA — A Parkersburg man was indicted for involuntary manslaughter, corrupting another with drugs, and aggravated trafficking of drugs while a Marietta woman was charged with assault and child endangerment by a Washington County Grand Jury Wednesday. Eric Hampton Stevens, 41, 716 30th ...
CHARLESTON — Attorneys representing inmates in West Virginia’s correctional system pushed back Tuesday on a motion to dismiss a federal class action lawsuit seeking state funding to address major issues by attorneys for the state. Meanwhile, there is bipartisan frustration by members of ...
VIENNA — The Vienna Police Department is investigating a vehicle theft and ATM break-in at Community Bank early Tuesday morning, the department said in a press release Wednesday. Officers were dispatched shortly before 5:30 a.m. to 2400 Grand Central Ave., where a red 2006 Ford F-350 truck ...
PARKERSBURG — The following cases were handled in Wood County Magistrate Court on Nov. 9-12: * Dusty Lee Wineman, 1111 24th St., Parkersburg, had a preliminary hearing waived on a charge of grand larceny. The case was sent to Wood County Circuit Court. * Shanah Jade Burks, 703 20th St. Apt. ...