WHEELING — Wheeling Middle School teachers say every time they look out their classroom windows, they will continue to remember former colleagues Heather Schultz and Byron “Buddy” Filben. On Wednesday, the teachers and members of the Filben and Schultz families gathered for an emotional ...
WHEELING — Two people were injured following a shooting late Tuesday in East Wheeling. Wheeling police said the two men were shot after witnesses heard gunfire on 14th Street about 11:15 p.m. One victim was taken to Wheeling Hospital for treatment, while the other person ...
TRIADELPHIA — Triadelphia will be shutting down water service from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Friday for service repairs in parts of the town. This interruption extends from Touchstone Research, Millers Add., OK Trailer Park & Ohio County PSD customers on Middle Creek Road. A 48-hour ...
NEW MARTINSVILLE – WVU Health System has been certified by the state to operate Wetzel County Hospital after recently signing a long-term lease to operate the hospital in New Martinsville. The subsidiary of WVU Hospitals this week received a “certificate of need” from the West Virginia ...
The WVU Extension Service of Ohio County and Wheeling’s Parks and Recreation Department invited the public to join them in celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day by planting 140 trees in parks throughout the City of Wheeling. The trees were provided through the Mountaineer Treeways grant from ...
WHEELING – Wheeling Hospital is resuming its cardiac and pulmonary programs at the Wellness Center, but the facility will remain closed to the general public. The hospital’s announcement came Wednesday, one day after announcing urgent non-emergency surgeries would resume there later this ...
WELLSBURG – After announcing plans to reopen the county courthouse on Monday, the Brooke County Commission discussed with Mike Bolen, administrator of the county’s health department, ways to protect visitors and staff from COVID-19. The commissioners agreed to reopen the courthouse, in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dancer and choreographer Netta Yerushalmy has built a career in movement and community. Both are gone now. Her world is still, isolated — and fearful. “Dancers I know are in a muted, depressed state right now,” she said from her apartment in Manhattan. “The metaphor ...
(AP) — Stocks around the world whipped higher Wednesday, riding a wave of optimism on encouraging data about a possible treatment for COVID-19. The upswell of hope was so strong that investors completely sidestepped a report showing the outbreak drove the U.S. economy to its worst quarterly ...
Some businesses in Ohio will be able to reopen next Monday, if Gov. Mike DeWine proceeds with his plan to reduce curbs put in place to battle the COVID-19 epidemic. The question here, though, is whether we are ready to move back toward normal lives. Belmont County has become East Ohio’s ...
One reason West Virginians can have more confidence about COVID-19 than our neighbors in many other states is that testing for the disease has been remarkably high here. While talk at the national level is of finding ways to get 2% of Americans tested for the disease, our state passed that ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Mike DeWine on Wednesday clarified that high school graduations can’t be permitted if they amount to mass gatherings. The Republican governor said the most preferred option is a virtual ceremony conducted online, followed by a drive-in ceremony allowing students ...
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are debunking a conspiracy theory, saying they have concluded that the new coronavirus was "not manmade or genetically modified" but say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides ...
By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is stepping up its efforts to cushion the economy against a record downturn that the bank's president, Christine Lagarde, said was "of a magnitude and speed that are unprecedented in peacetime." The ...
By The Associated Press The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday with new bleak evidence from Europe and the United States of the mounting devastation wrought on jobs and economies by coronavirus lockdown measures. The European economy shrank a record 3.8% in the first ...
By KEVIN FREKING and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top infectious disease expert said Thursday that new cases of the coronavirus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions. States need to proceed carefully as they take steps to reopen ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will shut down its subway system each day from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to increase cleaning of trains and stations during the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo anounced Thursday. Subway trains, which had been disinfected ...
By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials added 43 confirmed coronavirus-related fatalities to the state's death toll on Thursday as the governor nears an announcement on changes to the statewide stay-at-home order. The state has recorded 1,007 ...
On Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice, during his daily press briefing, announced that West Virginia would take its first steps toward reopening on Thursday, as the state on Wednesday saw its third consecutive day of under 3 percent positive testing for COVID-19. Justice also announced Thursday that ...
An employee of Main Street Bank's Moundsville Branch tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19. Quarantine measures and a deep cleaning process are now underway. The employee is home and has been directed by their physician to self-quarantine for 14 days. The bank immediately took the following ...
