CHARLESTON 鈥� Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner asked a federal judge this week to dismiss an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize unredacted voter registration information. In a legal memorandum filed Wednesday evening with the U.S. District Court ...
Washington County Prosecutor Nicole Coil has been appointed to serve as a judge on the Washington County Court of Common Pleas, filling a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mark Kerenyi. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the appointment Thursday. Coil will assume office May 26 in the ...
CHARLESTON - Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family updated a lawsuit filed against a national hotel chain to accuse the company of attempting to replace employees of the historic Greenbrier Resort with workers from a nearby hotel and eliminate competition. The Justice family, the ...
MARIETTA - The Washington County Grand Jury this week announced the indictments of 21 individuals, mostly on drug-related charges. The defendants include: * Michael Jay Bond, 39, 3306 Central Ave., Parkersburg; two third-degree felony counts of having weapons while under disability, each with a specification for forfeiture of a weapon, and a fifth-degree felony count of aggravated possession of drugs, methamphetamine from August. * Co-defendants Casey Steven Taylor Jr., 34, 4060 Sugar Run Road, Marietta; Zachary Ryan Taylor, 26, 2300 Sand Hill Road, Marietta; and Kaylan Renea Wallace, ...
PARKERSBURG 鈥� The plaintiff in a lawsuit over Parkersburg鈥檚 suspension of curbside recycling is asking a judge to prohibit the city from entering into a contract for a subscription-based program with Rumpke and order the reinstatement of curbside recycling. Parkersburg resident Walt Auvil filed the lawsuit in July after the city suspended its curbside recycling service in May, citing manpower issues. In an amended complaint filed 10 days later and a motion filed March 27, Auvil, an attorney, says the city has violated state code requiring cities with a population of 10,000 or more ...
WHEELING 鈥� Two people were sentenced Friday to prison terms of up to five years for concealing the remains of a man whose body went undiscovered for nearly two years, authorities said. Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney Shawn R. Turak said Christopher Riley and Sara Riley were sentenced Friday by David Sims in Ohio County Circuit Court. Each received a sentence of not less than one year nor more than five years following their convictions for concealment of a deceased human body. Authorities said the victim, Andrew Downs, died June 15, 2021. A missing persons report was filed with an ...
