PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man who died Thursday evening following a head-on collision on Staunton Turnpike. According to a post on the department’s Facebook page, David P. Butcher, no age or address listed, was pronounced dead at the scene after the ...

BELPRE — Two young Belpre children who ran away in the early morning hours Friday have returned home. Two boys, approximately 6 and 7 years old, had run away sometime in the middle of the night Friday, according to Belpre Police Dispatcher D. Myers, and the Belpre Police stated in a ...

BOLT, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a person on Friday who fired at him as he was responding to a 911 call, authorities say. The individual who died wasn’t immediately identified by the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, which released a statement about ...

PARKERSBURG — Two men were arrested following a traffic stop Nov. 19 by the Parkersburg Narcotics Task Force. A PNTF press release said on Nov. 19 at approximately 7:30 p.m., agents conducted a traffic stop on a Ford Fusion on Emerson Avenue, near Interstate 77, Parkersburg. The occupants ...

ATHENS, Ohio — Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Zackary C. Tackett has been selected as the 2024 Trooper of the Year at the Athens Post. Fellow officers stationed at the Athens Post chose Tackett based on leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic ...

PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg Police have identified a man who died Saturday after being struck by a car while attempting to cross Murdoch Avenue. Robert Matthew Sams, 58, of Parkersburg, was pronounced dead at the scene, Police Chief Matthew Board said. The incident happened around 7:02 p.m. ...