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Mar. 12—Troopers with the West Virginia State Police Troop 7 are still investigating a fatal crash that occurred near the Ghent toll booth. On Monday, March 11, a vehicle traveling northbound on ...
Mar. 14—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph GHENT — A fiery crash at a turnpike tollbooth in Raleigh County resulted in three confirmed deaths, a trooper with the West Virginia State ...
The crash happened about 4 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Wood County highways C and S in the town of Rudolph. According to the Wood County Sheriff’s Office, an SUV was driving west on Wood ...
The West Virginia State Police was first formed in 1919, at the direction of Governor John Jacob Cornwell, who deemed that a state-level law enforcement agency "was mandatory in order for him to uphold the laws of our state." Part of the compromise was the name of the organization: "West Virginia Department of Public Safety" was the official ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
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Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area.
One of the West Virginia State Police troopers injured in a Sunday night shooting has suffered the amputation of a leg. The investigation continues.