West Virginia University at Parkersburg News

A job fair aimed at helping military veterans and servicemembers was held Tuesday at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.

A challenger to President Obama, who turns out to be an inmate in a federal prison in Texas, got 41% of the vote in Tuesday's West Virginia Presidential primary.

Preparing both the school and authorities. Wood County first responders and school staff react to a mock school shooting at WVU-P. "A school shooting is our biggest possible threat here at the college," explains WVU-P's director of communications and marketing, Katie Wooten.

"It did go by fast," said Rickie Yeager, planning administrator for the city of Parkersburg and a prime organizer of the market.

The Wood County Commission on Monday gave West Virginia University at Parkersburg eight vacant, county-owned lots in Happy Valley that were part of the federal flood mitigation program.