Parkersburg News

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Mayor Bob Newell has appointed Joe Martin as city police chief. Martin, a police sergeant with the city's narcotics and violent crimes taskforce, has been with the department since 1997.

Dispatchers say the Thursday afternoon fire at the Southside Self-Storage Facility off of Gihon Road in Parkersburg is now under control.

Temp: 52.0 F Font Size: Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell has announced his selection to replace retiring Police Chief Gerald Board.

WorkForce West Virginia officials said they've run out of money for a program to retrain workers who have lost their jobs and will need to request more funding from the federal government.

The Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau is making significant exterior and interior changes to its offices and visitors center at Seventh and Avery streets.

UPDATE: 7:11 p.m. Ritchie County officials tell WTAP they have located two and a half-year-old Raven Owens.

Betsey Hallman and Sara Caltrider thought the ringing in their hotel room at the Microtel Inn was the alarm clock.

If you've ever asked a lefty friend why, if he's so fond of higher taxes and bigger government, he doesn't pay the government above and beyond what he owes in taxes, Reuters tracks down the place where you can tell your friend to send a check.

Not sure what to give Uncle Sam this Christmas? How about a nice, fat check to help whittle away at the $7.6 trillion national debt? The U.S. Treasury Department accepts gifts, payable to the Bureau of the Public Debt.

Law enforecment agencies from across northern and central West Virginia were honored by AAA East Central, Tuesday.

The improper use or malfunction of space heaters have caused six fire deaths in West Virginia during October, with three of the deaths in Parkersburg, fire officials said.

A Parkersburg man died of natural causes Saturday evening after he pulled out of his parents' driveway, crossed both lanes of W.Va. 47 and went over an embankment, officials said.

Temp: 57.0 F Font Size: A man has died Saturday night after a single vehicle accident in Wood County.

Before the doors even opened Thursday evening, about 300 people lined up outside the Dils Center in downtown Parkersburg to have their children vaccinated against the H1N1 virus.

Wind Chill: 38 F Font Size: A man charged in connection to a double homicide that happened in Parkersburg in September was back in court Thursday.

TV and FOX Parkersburg are tracking major race and levy results in Washington, Morgan, Monroe, Noble and Meigs counties.

Rallies as part of the "Solving Our Health Care Emergency" bus tour were held throughout our region of West Virginia this week.

With daylight-saving time approaching this weekend, fire officials are urging area residents to replace the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors after turning the clocks back one hour.

Temp: 50.0 F Wind Chill: 48 F Font Size: A bus carrying health care reform advocates rolled into downtown Parkersburg Thursday on its trip across northern West Virginia.