PARKERSBURG – The West Virginia State Police said Monday that the man who died over the weekend after reportedly exchanging gunfire with Parkersburg and Wood County law enforcement is suspected of killing the woman whose body was found in their shared residence. Miguel Angel Gallegos, 49, of ...
PARKERSBURG – A unit from the West Virginia State Police will begin the probe into a fatal shooting Saturday night in Parkersburg involving police officers and deputies from the Wood County Sheriff's Office, an official said. A crime scene team was headed to Parkersburg on Sunday to begin ...
MARIETTA - Area law enforcement marked the close of National Police Week Friday by laying wreaths on the Peace Officers Memorial outside the Washington County Sheriff's Office at Third and Putnam streets. The sheriff's office website listed local law enforcement officers killed in the line of ...
PARKERSBURG - One person was killed in an officer-involved shooting during an exchange of gunfire with Parkersburg Police and Wood County Sheriff's deputies Saturday night, and another body was found at the scene. The second individual is believed to have been dead prior to officers' initial ...
PARKERSBURG – A Parkersburg man was indicted for murder and related charges on Friday by the Wood County Grand Jury. Butch Wayne Knight, 19, currently in the North Central Regional Jail, was accused of the Dec. 8 shooting of Bradi Florence in an incident on Belmont Road in South ...
PARKERSBURG – The Wood County Sheriff’s Department is continuing its investigation into a fatal two-vehicle collision that occurred Wednesday at the intersection of Robert C. Byrd Highway and Progress Ridge Road, according to a post to the Wood County Sheriff’s Department’s Facebook ...