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11/15/2024

Chris Copen will go from a Golden Eagle to a Bobcat after signing a letter of intent to play baseball at West Virginia Wesleyan.

BELPRE — Chris Copen is following in the footsteps of his older brother. Wednesday inside Belpre High School, the Belpre senior signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at West Virginia Wesleyan. Copen will go from a Golden Eagle to a Bobcat. “I visited twice,” he said. “The first...

11/15/2024

The West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission filed a petition asking for the state Supreme Court of Appeals to decide the ongoing litigation holding up the start of the high school football playoffs.

PARKERSBURG — With the ongoing litigations and several injunctions issued in the past week, the WVSSAC made a move Thursday which would bring to a resolution the state football playoff tournament which was postponed earlier this week due to ongoing litigations. As the petitioner, the WVSSAC filed ...

11/15/2024

The Wood County Commission was introduced Thursday to the new director of the Wood County Resiliency Center.

PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission was introduced to the new director of the Wood County Resiliency Center. Sydney Weber was sworn in Thursday to that position. She moved to Parkersburg from the Charleston area three years ago. She worked in the Governor’s Office for three years in Charles...

11/15/2024

Vienna City Council on Thursday passed the first reading of an ordinance that would alter the process of terminating, hiring and transferring department heads for the city.

VIENNA — Vienna City Council met for its regularly scheduled meeting Thursday, during which the council passed the first reading of an ordinance that would alter the process of terminating, hiring and transferring department heads for the city. The final reading of the ordinance will take place at...

11/15/2024

Profanities, threats and objects were hurled at the Wood County Board of Education Thursday night and the conference room cleared after former board member Deborah Hendershot was appointed to a newly vacant seat over Chad Conley, who finished second in a special election for another vacancy.

PARKERSBURG — The Bailey Conference Room had to be cleared Thursday night after the Wood County Board of Education selected former board member Deborah Hendershot to fill the vacant seat left by Sarah Townsend from a pool of 16 candidates. Those in attendance, including Chad Conley who was on the ...

11/14/2024

The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.

11/14/2024

Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 16, Syria’s state news agency said.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 16, Syria’s state news agency said. The airstrikes on the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and th...

11/14/2024

Parkersburg High School senior Cali Way made it official on Wednesday evening at Gymniks Gymnastics in Vienna that she’ll compete at Fairmont State University for head Acrobatics & Tumbling coach Danielle Cutri.

PARKERSBURG — When it comes to the sport of gymnastics, Parkersburg High School senior Cali Way has been around the block. Although a future in gymnastics wasn’t meant to be for the Big Red senior, Way made it official on Wednesday evening at Gymniks Gymnastics in Vienna that she’ll compete at...

11/14/2024

Josie Bradley, a student at Parkersburg High School who competes out of Gymniks Gymnastics in Vienna, made it official Wednesday evening that she will head to Fairmont State University to join the Acrobatics & Tumbling program for the Fighting Falcons of head coach Danielle Cutri.

PARKERSBURG — Josie Bradley, a student at Parkersburg High School who competes out of Gymniks Gymnastics in Vienna, made it official Wednesday evening that she will head to Fairmont State University to join the Acrobatics & Tumbling program for the Fighting Falcons of head coach Danielle Cutri. Br...

11/14/2024

Independent candidate William "Zak" Huffman was confirmed as the winner of the Parkersburg City Council District 5 seat, with the canvass increasing his margin of victory from three votes to four.

PARKERSBURG — None of the races in this year’s general election were changed as a result of the ballots counted during the canvassing process this week. The Wood County Commission met Tuesday as the Board of Canvassing and Review and considered 42 absentee ballots received after Election Day and...

11/14/2024

A Washington County Grand Jury indicted a Lowell man for his involvement in an October standoff.

MARIETTA — A Washington County Grand Jury indicted a Lowell man for his involvement in an October standoff Wednesday afternoon. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team responded to a residence with a distraught individual on the evening of Oct. 27, according to Chief Deputy ...

11/14/2024

The Republicans are taking the majority in the U.S. Senate next year, with U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito moving up to the fourth most powerful position in the Senate GOP majority caucus.

CHARLESTON — The Republicans are taking the majority in the U.S. Senate next year, with U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito moving up to the fourth most powerful position in the Senate GOP majority caucus. Republican members of the U.S. Senate met Wednesday to vote on their new leadership team that wil...

11/13/2024

A Tennessee man was arrested Sunday for his alleged involvement in a stabbing outside of the Adelphia Music Hall in Marietta.

MARIETTA — A Tennessee man was arrested Sunday for his alleged involvement in a stabbing outside of the Adelphia Music Hall in Marietta. Noah W. Mann, 24, of Kodak, Tenn., was arrested and charged with one count of felonious assault, according to a Marietta Police media release. Marietta Police Ch...

11/13/2024

Leading two sets to one Tuesday evening in the Class AA state quarterfinals, No. 3 Williamstown couldn’t finish off No. 6 Charleston Catholic as the Irish eliminated the Yellowjackets 19-25, 26-24, 16-25, 25-16 and 15-12.

CHARLESTON — Leading two sets to one here Tuesday evening inside the Charleston Coliseum in the Class AA state quarterfinals, No. 3 Williamstown couldn’t find a way to finish off No. 6 Charleston Catholic as the Irish of first-year head coach Jake Nelson eliminated the Yellowjackets 19-25, 26-24...

11/13/2024

The West Virginia High School State Football Playoffs have been postponed until ongoing litigation is resolved.

PARKERSBURG — High school football in West Virginia continues to exist in the unknown. Tuesday afternoon, WVSSAC Executive Director David Price confirmed the West Virginia High School State Football Playoffs have been postponed due to ongoing litigation. The playoffs will begin after the litigatio...

11/13/2024

The canvass of votes from last week’s general election did not change the outcome of any races, a representative of the Wood County Clark’s Office said this morning.

PARKERSBURG – The canvass of votes from last week’s general election did not change the outcome of any races, a representative of the Wood County Clark’s Office said this morning. That includes the race for Parkersburg City Council District 5, where independent William “Zak” Huffman led in...

11/12/2024

Supreme Court rejects moving Meadows to federal court.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he was immune from prosecution. The justices did not detail their reasoning in a b...

11/12/2024

Chris Wallace leaving CNN.

Chris Wallace says he’s leaving CNN after three years and, at age 77, is eager to see what a transformed media environment has to offer. “When I look at the media landscape right now, the people who are going independent, whether it’s podcasting or streaming, that seems to be where the action ...

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