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 鈥� 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 鈥� The Wood County Sheriff鈥檚 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鈥檚 Department鈥檚 Facebook ...
DEERWALK 鈥� One person was killed Wednesday and two others injured in an accident involving a trailer carrying lumber and a pickup truck. The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. on U.S. 50 near Progress Ridge Road. The Wood County Sheriff鈥檚 Office had not issued a release or report on the ...
PARKERSBURG - Westbound lanes of U.S. 50 are closed near Progress Ridge Road after a fatal accident at approximately 12:15 p.m. Wednesday. West Virginia State Police and the Deerwalk Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene of an accident that appeared to involve a semi-truck hauling ...
