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The Marietta Police Department recently released the following reports: Aug. 27 *Michael Glen Jarvis, 33, was found highly intoxicated and unconscious in the grass area of the Peoples Bank. He was transported to the Marietta Memorial Hospital and cited for disorderly conduct by intoxication. Aug. 29 *Officers responded to speak to an individual about her husband. Upon arrival, officers found the individual and her husband had been separated for over a year. The individual stated her husband came to her house and entered through a window around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 31 *Delbert ...

Newport man sentenced for fatal 2022 accident

A sentencing hearing was held Friday for a Newport man who drove under the influence with a suspended or canceled license in 2022 and caused an accident that killed a New Martinsville man. Richard W. Evans, 61, was sentenced to four to six years during a sentencing hearing Friday morning in ...

Washington County Harvest of Hope surpasses 2 million pounds of rescued food

The Washington County Harvest of Hope achieved a significant milestone on Feb. 26 by surpassing 2 million pounds of rescued and redistributed food since its founding in 2006. Starting with a handful of volunteers, Harvest of Hope operates with more than 50 individuals using a refrigerated ...

Lower Salem man sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual exploitation of minors

Staff Reports COLUMBUS — A Lower Salem man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to 25 years in prison for sexually exploiting minors in the U.S. and the Philippines. James A. Sabolick, 58, brought a West Vriginia minor to his Washington County hunting cabin to engage in illicit sex acts and sent money to Filipino women for their basic living expenses in exchange for child sexual abuse material, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office media release. Sabolick pleaded guilt in January to two counts of sexually exploiting a minor and one count of possessing child pornography, the ...

Washington County marriages and divorces

The following applications for marriage licenses were filed in the Washington County Courthouse in June: *Timothy Andrew Stutzman, 26, Stockport, and Annette Kristina Hershberger, 22, Waterford, June 3 *Jabez Paul Montero Ambrocio, 23, Marietta, and Danielle Grace Mamaril Morales, 24, Marietta, June 3 *Logan Charles Cannon, 27, Vienna, and Anja Eshbaugh, 25, Vienna, June 4 *Nathan Andrew Stone, 44, Belpre, and Cortney Laine Huff, 42, Belpre, June 4 *Sierra Dallas Long, 25, Waterford, and Brandon Bauerbauch, 31, Waterford, June 5 *Angela Renee Sparks, 40, Belpre, and Victor Dwayne ...

Hunter Biden, is convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president's son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Jurors found ...