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Austin Wyatt Campbell

Austin Wyatt Campbell, 27, of Parkersburg, WV, formerly of Stockport, Ohio, died on July 15, 2022 at his home. He was born on August 29, 1994, in Zanesville, Ohio, son of Malcolm Campbell Jr. and Lisa Carper Campbell. He graduated from Waterford High School and Washington County Career ...

Elmer Jason Carter

Elmer Jason Carter, 33, of Bluefield, W.Va., passed away July 15, 2022, with the compassionate care of CAMC General Hospital in Charleston. A private cremation will take place at Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.

Donna Ilene Swiger

Donna Ilene Swiger, 77, of Marietta, OH passed away on Saturday, July 16, 2022 at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH. She was born on February 11, 1945 in Marietta to the late Donald Lynn and Georgia Ilene Boley Sandford. Donna had worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse for ...

Kanawha judge blocks West Virginia abortion ban

CHARLESTON — Abortions are once again allowed in West Virginia, at least for now, after a circuit judge issued Monday a preliminary injunction against the state’s 150-year-old ban on the procedure. In her decision, Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Tera L. Salango said that in the absence of action by the court, the state’s sole abortion clinic and its patients, “especially those who are impregnated as a result of a rape or incest, are suffering irreparable harm.” Attorney General Patrick Morrissey acknowledged abortion is legal in West Virginia but vowed to appeal the ...

Getting to know the officials

Along with the bad comes the good and there have been some positives lately for the City of Marietta, said City Councilman and Finance Chair Mike Scales. Bids were recently opened for work on the Marietta River Trail and bid amounts had him “giddy,” he said. The high bid came in around ...

Chemours to challenge EPA’s GenX guideline

PARKERSBURG — Chemours is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released health advisory on the chemical and process it uses in place of C8 in the Teflon-manufacturing process at the Washington Works plant. The company announced Wednesday it is petitioning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit for review of the EPA’s June 15 health advisory for hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid and its ammonium salt. HFPO-DA is often referred to as GenX, the trade name of the patented technology platform in which the chemicals are used. The lifetime health ...