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Suspect Sought for Igniting Walker, WV, House Fire
Wood County authorites are searching for suspect in an attempted murder and arson. After stabbing his mother, Charles Clinton Hess IV returned to the property and is believed to have set the house on fire. Firefighters from Waverly and Deerwalk declared the house a total loss, WTAP reported. “Our next...
Wood County 911 Center almost ready to come online
PARKERSBURG — The new Wood County 911 Center will be coming online soon, the 911 director told county commissioners Thursday. Wood County 911 Director Mike Shook appeared before the commission to give an update on the 18,000-square-foot facility at the former Suddenlink building near the Interstate 77 and U.S. 50 intersection.
MOV Parent: Should schools ban cell phones?
A few weeks ago the board for the second largest school district in the country, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban students’ cell phone use during the school day. Within days, the chancellor for the largest school district, New York City Public Schools, also announced that they are enacting a cell phone ban. When asked by local reporters from WNYW about this ban, Chancellor David Banks was quoted to say “They’re not just a distraction; kids are fully addicted now to phones.”
Sand Hill Wildlife Management Area
The 967-acre Sand Hill Wildlife Management Area (WMA) ranges across a forest of oak and hickory in the hills east of the valley of the Ohio River. Remnants of the Volcano oil boom of the late 1800s may be found in the management area. Game traditionally hunted in the management...
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