Legal filing asks local superintendent to be found in contempt and a standoff ends in arrest: Here are the week’s top headlines

(WTRF) — Here’s a look at the Ohio Valley news of this week.

A Powhatan Point man has been charged with kidnapping, strangulation, domestic violence and more after a standoff Wednesday afternoon.

Ray Allen Fox Jr. allegedly held a woman inside a mobile home on Industry Street.

Belmont County Sheriff’s deputies were at the home for three to four hours, where they ordered the two of them outside but received no response.

Both later exited without a K-9 being deployed.

Fox was taken into custody for questioning and is currently in the Belmont County Jail.

New details emerge in Belmont County hostage situation

A filing has been made asking for a judge to find Wetzel County Superintendent Cassandra Porter in contempt following an email sent out this week.

County Administrator and Secondary Education Director Paul Huston told principals that their schools were prohibited from playing football on the Paden City High School field.

It follows a ruling from Judge Charles Richard Wilson that the high school remain open, after Porter attempted to relocate students due to the campus’s status as an EPA Superfund site.

Huston reports to Porter.

Students returned to school on Monday, and the case to close the school is under appeal with the West Virginia Supreme Court.

Legal filing asks judge to find West Virginia Superintendent in contempt over football

The teardown of the former Wheeling Inn for the Friendly City’s new Welcome Center is moving ahead of schedule.

With asbestos removal set to be complete by the middle of September, officials say the next step is to demolish the building itself.

When the new center is in place, it will both replace the current Convention and Visitors Bureau and tell the story of Wheeling’s heritage.

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito says she is working to have federal funding directed toward the project.

Asbestos removal at former Wheeling Inn progressing ahead of schedule

The internet speeds of nearly 2,000 households in Wetzel County took a leap forward this week.

The ReConnect program from the USDA and the County Commission have funded gigabit internet with a new broadband network.

A ‘fiber cutting’ celebrated the news at the 4-H grounds in New Martinsville with Senator Capito, whose Capito Connect program has continued for nine years.

The service covers 48 square miles and extends to the town of Hundred.

ReConnect Broadband Project expands gigabit internet into Wetzel County

Ohio State Highway Patrol officers from St. Clairsville were reunited with the man whose life they saved less than two months ago.

On July 3rd, Charles Carter was involved in a traffic accident and went into cardiac arrest shortly afterward.

Sgts. Rocky Hise and Scott Moore and Troopers T.J. White and Hunter Mahoney worked to do CPR while waiting for an AED.

Carter recovered and the troopers and sergeants received Distinguished Service Medallions.

Emotional reunion between a man and the OSHP officers that saved his life

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