WHEELING — The combined weight of a dump truck and an excavator occupying the Washington Avenue Bridge when it collapsed Wednesday did exceed the span’s 5-ton weight limit, a state official said Thursday. Brian Kucish, director for West Virginia Division of Highways District 6, met with ...
The United States Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and the city of Martins Ferry marked the milestone Wednesday by honoring the agency’s long-standing service to the nation. Mayor John Davies presented Ron Green, vice president of the National Association of Letter ...
WHEELING — The city of Wheeling saw its lowest crime rates in a decade in 2024 – and the numbers only improved in 2025. According to data released Thursday morning by the Wheeling Police Department, crime rates declined even further from 2024 to 2025, as did drug overdoses and overdose ...
The case of a former employee allegedly stealing nearly $29,000 while working at The Highlands Sports Complex is now before Ohio County Circuit Court. Kelly Michelle Clutter, 47, had been set for a hearing before Magistrate Tom Howard Thursday morning. Howard said the hearing was waived, and ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey and his legal team are getting ready to defend the state’s law aimed at keeping transgender girls and women from competing with biological girls and women in public school and college athletics before the nation’s highest ...
The effort to fully reopen Weirton’s County Road fire station may be taking another step. The agenda for the next meeting of Weirton Council, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, includes a resolution concerning the reopening of the station and hiring of six additional firefighters to staff ...
