PALESTINE, W.Va. 鈥� The West Virginia State Police are investigating a human skull and other remains found over the weekend in Wirt County. Troopers were notified Sunday afternoon that a squirrel hunter discovered a skull off Courtney Ridge Road in Palestine, according to a statement ...
PARKERSBURG 鈥� There was an additional police presence at Parkersburg High School on Monday following threats made over the weekend. A release from Wood County Schools on Sunday said the district responded to a potential threat in regards to Parkersburg High School. The release said on the ...
MARIETTA 鈥� The Washington County Grand Jury indicted 16 people this week, including a former manager at Ergon鈥檚 Newport terminal accused of stealing nearly $900,000 from the company over several years, using the funds to acquire more than 150 firearms and other items, Washington County ...
GRANTSVILLE 鈥� A Calhoun County commissioner and teacher was arrested Friday and charged with sexual abuse. According to a criminal complaint filed in Calhoun County Magistrate Court, Jacob Daniel McCumbers, 39, of Arnoldsburg, was charged with sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian ...
CHARLESTON 鈥� West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey laid out his argument to the U.S. Supreme Court defending the state鈥檚 law meant to keep transgender girls and women from competing with biological girls and women in public school and college athletics. The Attorney General鈥檚 ...
WELLSBURG 鈥� A Wellsburg man has been sentenced to life in prison, without chance of parole, after pleading guilty to the murder of his father, a death that had been called a suicide 37 years ago. The sentence for James Edward Adams Sr., 63, of Wellsburg, was complicated initially by ...
