Ritchie County News

A Ritchie County man has been sentenced for breaking into Barker's Store in Smithville.

A 2-year-old girl was found unharmed Friday evening near her home in Ritchie County after being reported missing seven hours earlier, officials said.

Officials in Ritchie County have located a 2 1/2 year old girl who went missing at 11 a.m. Friday.

Gov. Joe Manchin on Thursday appointed a Morgantown man with decades of experience in private technology companies to a nine-year term on the state Board of Education .

Call 304-354-6101 for information. This is the only clinic that will also offer seasonal flu shots, the health department said.

The location of the swine flu vaccination clinic originally scheduled to be at the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department Friday has been changed to the Dils Center.

One man has died and two others were injured in an accident early Sunday morning in Ritchie County.

Ritchie County Sheriff's Deputies confirm that 62-year-old Roger Franks, of Shreve, Ohio, died as a result of the accident on Route 50.

Shell Oil Products has applied to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection in a voluntary remediation program to clean up two former oil-gathering facilities in Calhoun and Ritchie counties believed to have been constructed by the Eureka Pipeline Co.

Temp: 59.0 F Font Size: We have an update on the discovery of several bones found in Ritchie County this past summer.

Sept. 7, 2009 FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH: Riding the Line in Arthurdale By Christopher Worth The Packard rumbles down a dirt road on the way to what the car's occupant likes to refer to as "The Grand Experiment." It's a self-sustaining village in the middle of rural Appalachia, founded in the state of West Virginia, and as Eleanor Roosevelt sits ...

A portion of Route 50 in Ritchie County is closed Friday morning after an accident involving a tractor trailer.

Temp: 65.0 F Motorists traveling eastbound on Route 50 through Ritchie County should expect some delays this morning.

Temp: 65.0 F Motorists traveling eastbound on Route 50 through Ritchie County should expect some delays this morning.

Temp: 72.0 F The Ritchie County Library could be getting a large chunk of change for a complete renovation of it's new building.

Temp: 72.0 F The Ritchie County Library could be getting a large chunk of change for a complete renovation of it's new building.

Deputies across West Virginia soon will be sporting matching uniforms and driving identical cruisers to satisfy new standards set by the West Virginia Sheriff's Bureau.

Wood County Sheriff's Office is warning residents of blacktop scam artists from Virginia who recently targeted an 83-year-old Parkersburg woman, said Sheriff Jeff Sandy.

Temp: 69.0 F A robbery that lead to the assault of a Ritchie County man has landed one man in jail and a juvenile in a detention center.

PARKERSBURG A six-week summer reading and nutrition program will be making a difference in the lives of 120 Wood County students enrolled this year.