SAGO, W.Va. — 20 years ago today, 12 West Virginians lost their lives in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s history. On Jan. 2, 2006, an explosion and collapse in the Sago mines trapped 13 miners underground for nearly two days. Only one survived. In the days and weeks ...
Partial payments are beginning to reach residents impacted by the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, more than a year after class counsel promised personal injury compensation would be issued. According to a statement posted on the settlement website, partial personal injury awards are in ...
WHEELING — A new life entered the world just after midnight on New Year’s Day and became the newest and youngest resident of the Ohio Valley. Baby boy Beekon Ray Meade was born to Brooke and Phillip Meade of Woodsfield at 12:18 a.m. Thursday at WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital. He was the ...
The West Virginia Public Service Commission wants to make certain it is receiving regular updates on efforts by the Weirton Area Water Board to meet its orders related to upgrades to Weirton’s municipal water system. In an order released Wednesday, the PSC orders “that the Weirton Area ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year. Democrats forced a 43-day government ...
A Wheeling Island man was arrested by Moundsville police this week, accused of trying to solicit a minor for sex. According to Moundsville Police Chief Tom Mitchell, Brian Michael Kinsley, 47, of Wheeling was arrested on felony charges of soliciting a minor via computer and soliciting a ...
