radioNOVO News for Parkersburg, WV 07-08-26

Good morning.A Walker man is facing a life sentence this morning after being ordered to serve eighty years in prison for a brutal double homicide. Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane handed down consecutive forty-year maximum sentences to forty-three-year-old Bradley Cantwell following his felony Alford pleas to two counts of second-degree murder. Investigators prove Cantwell fatally shot his friends, James Bailey and Felicia Goff, inside their Walker residence before setting fire to the home in a desperate attempt to cover up the crime scene.Meanwhile, a precautionary shelter-in-place order remains active within a quarter-mile radius of Staunton Avenue as industrial crews suppress hotspots at the destroyed Peoples Cartage warehouse. State environmental records just revealed the logistics company's sister facility near the regional airport was heavily fined forty-six thousand dollars last year for multiple hazardous waste violations and failing to prevent chemical fires. Officials emphasize the active Camden Avenue fire zone remains completely secured, and the nearby Erickson All-Sports Facility has escaped structural damage.And the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston has officially installed the Most Reverend Evelio Menjivar-Ayala as its tenth bishop. Menjivar becomes the nation's first Salvadoran-born bishop to lead a diocese, pledging to actively support marginalized families.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.