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Federal prosecutors charged a former councilman for the city of Parkersburg, West Virginia, with breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.

PARKERSBURG — Former Parkersburg City Councilman Eric Barber said on Jan. 6 that he walked to the U.S. Capitol, climbed the steps and looked inside as protest

Updated Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. A third West Virginian has been charged and arrested for taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Former Parkersburg City Councilman Eric Barber appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon in the Southern District of West Virginia for an initial hearing in the case and was released on bond. According to court documents from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Barber was charged Wednesday with entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct and theft. A federal complaint recounts Barber’s activities on Ja...

  CALGARY -- Public health restrictions will be front and centre for Alberta’s UCP government Monday as the provincial cabinet discusses when to ease them.  Business owners across the province are demanding answers and anxiously awaiting a definitive timeline on when they can reopen their doors.  The Alberta Hospitality Association (AHA) has encouraged its members to message local MLAs in an effort to learn more details.  Premier Jason Kenney has promised a minimum of one week's notice so owners can prepare to open back up, but there has been no word as of Monday afternoon. Instead...

ebevins@newsandsentinel.com People scale a wall at the U.S. Capitol during Wednesday’s riot. (Photo provided by Eric Barber) PARKERSBURG — A former Parkersburg City Councilman was close to Wednesday’s chaos at the U.S. Capitol. Eric Barber said he was in Washington, D.C., to attend a rally in support of President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. While Barber said he believes there was interference and perhaps outright fraud in the election, he thought Wednesday’s violence went too far. “I don’t think it should have been done, but I u...