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Curtis W. Perrine

Curtis W. Perrine, 67, of Newport, OH, passed away, January 23, 2023, at WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center. He was born, September 27, 1955, in Jackson, OH, a son of the late Jim and Donna Perrine. Curtis was a 1973 graduate of Frontier High School. He was a truck driver, starting out at Main Star/Golden Crude, and then driving for, BD Oil Gathering, Jeddy Oil Company, and finally for Metal Tech. Curtis is survived by sons, James Perrine and Jesse Eddy, granddaughter, Selune Lyric Perrine, sister-in-law, Marilyn Perrine. He was preceded in death by his parents. A graveside ...

Man convicted in deaths of 3 people in Kirksville

KIRKSVILLE, Mo . (AP) — A northeast Missouri man has been convicted of shooting and killing three people, including a toddler, and wounding a fourth person. Ray Rijos, 53, of Kirksville, was found guilty Wednesday on six of eight charges, including three counts of second-degree murder, KTVO-TV reported. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 21. Rijos and Anquan “AJ” Glover were charged after the Dec. 30, 2021, shootings at a Kirksville duplex. Braxton Cottrill, 22, and 18-month-old Parker Sizemore died shortly after the shooting. Another shooting victim, Alissa Anders, 18, ...

Drug trafficker sentenced in overdose, dismemberment case

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A convicted drug trafficker who helped dismember and bury the body of a West Virginia woman in Georgia following a fatal overdose was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison Thursday. Seddrick Banks, 30, of Cartersville, Georgia, was sentenced in federal court in Clarksburg for his July 2021 conviction for drug distribution resulting in death and other charges. Banks traveled from Georgia to West Virginia to sell fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine hydrochloride. After a Fairmont woman died of an overdose in Lewis County in 2018, Banks and another man ...

Ray Herbert, Detroit sandlot ace and 1962 AL All-Star, dies

Ray Herbert, a 1962 All-Star Game winning pitcher who threw batting practice for his hometown Detroit Tigers for decades after retiring, died peacefully in Plymouth, Michigan, five days after his 93rd birthday. Herbert started his big league career with Detroit in 1950 and pitched for four teams over 14 seasons. He was a 20-game winner for the White Sox in 1962, then led the American League with seven shutouts in 1963 with Chicago. Herbert was a part of a generation of Detroiters who flocked to the diamonds of the city’s historic Northwestern Field, a sandlot that turned out ...

Missing teenage snowmachiner found dead in Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A teenager missing in northwest Alaska for nearly 10 days was found dead Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers said. The body of Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, 18, of Ambler was discovered near Cape Blossom, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Kotzebue, Alaska State Troopers said. The search for Brown and his cousin, Josiah Ballot of Selawik, also 18, began Jan. 16 when the two did not arrive on a snowmachine in Noorvik that day as planned, Ballot’s mother, Tanya Ballot, told the Anchorage Daily News. They had left Kotzebue the previous day for the trip of ...

Divorces

The following divorces and dissolutions have been granted in Washington County Common Pleas Court ¯ Tori A.Weber, 25, Marietta, and Adam R. McKnight, 27, Marietta, dissolution granted Jan. 18. ¯ Shonna Jones, 40, Cutler, and Ernest Jones Jr., 38, Parkersburg, divorce granted Jan. 18. ¯ Madison R. Shumar, 26, Marietta, and Ethan H. Shumar, 24, Marietta, dissolution granted Jan. 9. ¯ Terry Nichols, 46, Little Hocking. and Laiana Nichols, 45, Vincent, divorce granted Jan. 6. ¯ Heather Stehly, 29, Marietta, and Zachary Stehly, 26, Newport, dissolution granted Aug. 12, 2022.