WHEELING — Snow and ice on the roads and some sidewalks didn’t keep Wheeling residents from marching Sunday to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The annual Interfaith March for Peace and Justice kicked off events celebrating King’s memory and teachings on Sunday, with others ...
The employment contract for Jeffrey Crook, superintendent of Marshall County Schools, is up for renewal, a matter which will be addressed at Tuesday’s board meeting. Crook was hired in 2017 after the retirement of former superintendent Michael Hince on a two-year contract, which expires in ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A national environmental group and three partner organizations are challenging the state’s decision to issue an air permit-to-install for a proposed petrochemical complex in Belmont County. The Sierra Club and its partners filed an appeal Friday with the Environmental ...
The Jefferson County All-Stars basketball team is holding court with some brand new duds after receiving updated uniforms from the Zach Collaros Foundation. Teammates sported the signature gold and blue apparel for their first home game of the season against the Holmes County Bucks on Jan. 8 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thirty days into the partial government shutdown, Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer to ending the impasse Sunday than when it began, with President Donald Trump lashing out at his opponents after they dismissed a plan he’d billed as a compromise. Trump had ...
Photo by Scott McCloskey Volunteers working for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance at the Ohio County Public Library were recently honored by Gov. Jim Justice for being nominated for the 2018 Governor’s Service Award. Volunteers honored include: seated from left, Marsha Porter, Bill Fuller, and ...
DENVER (AP) — Republican Sen. Cory Gardner helped mastermind the GOP’s midterm strategy of pushing Senate candidates closer to President Donald Trump. But heading into his own 2020 re-election bid in Colorado, he’s allowing more distance with the president. And he’s not alone. Sen. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani left open Sunday the possibility that Trump and former personal attorney Michael Cohen might have discussed Cohen’s congressional testimony. But, he added, “so what” if he did? Giuliani told CNN’s “State of the ...
By SCOTT McCLOSKEY Staff Writer WHEELING — Motorists who have driven Interstate 70 at the West Virginia/Pennsylvania line in the past week may have noticed workers cutting out large sections of the highway and replacing the existing concrete with asphalt. This, according to West Virginia ...
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS For the Sunday News-Register CHARLESTON — When Gov. Jim Justice on Jan. 9 addressed a room full of lawmakers for the annual State of the State address, attendees knew he would refer to the Roads to Prosperity program as an accomplishment. Instead, just over halfway ...
By ALEX MEYER Staff Writer WHEELING — After seeing voters in November reject a proposed property tax levy to fund a new public safety building downtown, city officials are now considering a new plan to enact a user fee to fund the building’s construction. The user fee being discussed ...
By ALEX MEYER Staff Writer WHEELING — For Travis Henline, being hired to create a concept and eventually oversee a Wheeling history museum is serving as a homecoming, of sorts. Henline is the former site manager of West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling, serving in that capacity ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a bid to break the shutdown impasse and fund his long-promised border wall, President Donald Trump on Saturday offered to extend temporary protection for young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But while Trump cast the move as a “common-sense ...
WHEELING — While there are a large variety of puzzles that come in many shapes and forms that exercise the mind — one thing is for sure — folks of all ages around the area find puzzles are just plain fun. And what better way to celebrate as National Puzzle Day day approaches at the end ...
West Virginia Sen. Ryan Weld has introduced his bill to re-establilsh veterans courts in the state. Senate Bill 40 establishes a Military Service Members Court program within the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, with the Supreme Court’s administrator charged with overseeing the ...
Karen Neff was found guilty Friday on all counts related to the theft of almost $300,000 from the Belmont Memorial Park Cemetery. After a four-day trial, the jury deliberated for about two hours and returned guilty verdicts for one count of forgery, one count of theft, and one count of ...
Wheeling will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with events planned for Sunday and Monday. Martin Luther King Jr. day is a federal holiday being observed on Monday, and schools, banks and government offices will be closed that day. Events start at 2 p.m. Sunday ...
WHEELING — The partial shutdown of federal government is stalling Grow Ohio Valley’s plan to open a public market at the Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Center in Wheeling. The Federal Transit Administration is one of five parties that must approve the lease agreement between ...
WHEELING — City council has a new member after the body appointed East Wheeling resident Melinda Koslik Friday to the vacant 3rd Ward seat. At a special council meeting, members unanimously approved Koslik’s appointment, left vacant after former councilman Brian Wilson resigned in ...
An ordinance to institute a fee to insurance companies covering vehicles involved in accidents within city limits died before Moundsville City Council this week when members refused to move it to second reading. In December, city fire Chief Gary Brandon proposed the fee as a means to ...