A New York man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for a scheme that involved killing and dismembering a woman after fraudulently taking out a life insurance policy in her name to collect the ...

Shares retreated in Asia early Thursday after U.S. stocks stormed to records as investors wagered on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world. Markets also ...

Four new members were elected to Vienna City Council Tuesday. Incumbent Councilman Jim Leach was the highest vote-getter in the nonpartisan race for five seats with 2,573. He was followed by Harry ...

The Actors Guild of Parkersburg will present the classic musical “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” beginning Friday at 8 p.m. on the Guild stage in downtown Parkersburg. The show will run four weekends ...

Republicans have tightened their hold on the West Virginia Legislature, notching election wins that will relegate Democrats to an even smaller fraction of the chamber’s 134 seats and giving themselves ...

A funeral was held for Tito Jackson at the same Southern California cemetery where his brother Michael Jackson and his father Joe Jackson are buried. Family and friends gathered Monday to mourn the ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s soon-to-be senior U.S. senator is pleased that Republicans are on the verge of re-taking the U.S. Senate, though it remains to be seen if the GOP will maintain control of ...

According to the unofficial results of the 2024 General Election, Chad Emrick won his first term as mayor of Vienna on Tuesday, while Vienna City Council seats filled with incumbent Jim Leach and ...

And then there were five. Parkersburg News and Sentinel readers submitted nearly 1,800 barbershops, golf courses, coffee houses, Mexican restaurants, tree services and more for the 2024 Readers’ ...

Randy Modesitt has won a seat on the Wood County Board of Education with 11,175 votes in Tuesday’s unofficial results. He will serve the remaining 20 months of Debbie Hendershot’s term left vacant ...

Five incumbents on Parkersburg City Council won re-election Tuesday, while one trails an independent candidate by three votes, according to final, unofficial results released by the Wood County ...

The first time China faced Donald Trump in the White House, there was a trade war, a breach of protocol involving Taiwan’s former leader, and a president-to-president bromance that turned sour. As ...