Harrison County Common Pleas Court Judge T. Shawn Hervey announced that the Harrison County Community-Based Corrections Programs will receive funding for the next two years. Hervey informed the Harrison County Board of Commissioners at Wednesday’s regularly scheduled meeting that the county ...
West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner told high-schoolers participating in a law enforcement leadership academy at West Liberty University the state will need leaders like them in the future. Warner on Wednesday visited the West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association Youth Leadership Academy ...
Grow Ohio Valley is sowing plans for its future public market store, and it hopes to reap an opening by the end of this year. “We’re shooting hard for a fall opening,” said Danny Swan with Grow OV. Grow OV takes its mobile produce market to Wheeling neighborhoods throughout the summer, ...
After heavy storms and flooding struck the area Sunday, Belmont County Commissioners Josh Meyer, J.P. Dutton and Jerry Echemann invited county Emergency Management Director Dave Ivan to give an update Wednesday on the state of the county and its response. “We’ve had quite bit of rain,” ...
CHARLESTON — Not content to let the new education reform law stand, the West Virginia Education Association announced Wednesday it would file suit to block the law in court. According to a press release Wednesday, the WVEA sent Attorney General Patrick Morrisey notice of its intent to ...
The city’s Planning Commission approved a plan to construct two commercial buildings on the hilltop south of Woodsdale. Commissioners voted unanimously on Monday to approve a site plan for a medical building, a multi-purpose commercial building and an adjacent parking lot to be built at a ...
An Erie, Pennsylvania, man remains jailed on felony charges of attempting to solicit a minor for sex earlier this year. According to police records, Saul Vega Jr., 41, made contact with a 13-year-old Glen Dale girl on the dating website Adult Friend Finder and, in May, met the girl for sex. ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019, will be a day Bridgeport High School alumni, especially football players, cheerleaders and band members, will never forget. Crews from Edge Co., Inc., of Lansing, started demolition procedures yesterday on the covered grandstands that had graced Bill Jobko Stadium for ...
East Richland Evangelical Friends Church will host its 140 Year Celebration as well as the dedication of the Ickes Family Life Center this weekend. Senior Pastor Jerry Wenger said organizers are hoping for a turnout of more than 1,000 people at the ceremony Sunday morning. The IFLC is named ...
They prayed, they sang and then they poured water on their new bus. Children who attend Laughlin Memorial Chapel on 18th Street in Wheeling took part in a christening ceremony for the chapel’s new school bus Monday morning outside the chapel. The bus represents a means of transportation ...
Numerous bystanders confirmed with each other that they heard a customer make a threat at the Moundsville DMV Monday afternoon, leading to the man’s arrest. Around 12:30 p.m., a DMV employee called 911, advising that a customer had left “unhappy,” saying that he would be back with a ...
Ginny Favede’s leadership and professional expertise represent the meeting of two seemingly opposite worlds — economic development and construction. With a little more than two years as the executive director of the Ohio Valley Construction Employers Council, Contractors Association and ...
A massive storm Sunday led to flash flooding in some areas of Belmont County, but all local residents are accounted for. Dave Ivan, director of the Belmont County Emergency Management Agency, said that as of Monday afternoon, authorities had received no missing persons reports in Belmont ...
WOODSFIELD — The 132-year-old Knowlton Covered Bridge on Ohio 26 past Graysville collapsed Friday afternoon, even as the Monroe County Commissioners had hoped to renovate the structure and give it a new lease on life. However, on Friday a cell phone camera captured the three-span bridge’s ...
The West Virginia Health Care Association has presented its Best Practice Award for 2018 to Peterson Healthcare & Rehabilitation Hospital for establishing a New Employee Ambassador Program to retain newly-hired employees. Peterson received the recognition during the association’s annual ...
BELLAIRE — Local veterans gathered Saturday morning for a free breakfast in honor of their service amid the festivities of Independence Day weekend. The Bellaire Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 626 served up a meal of eggs, sausage, hash browns and beverages as a way to thank veterans of ...
The creation of what would become the United States of America was not an easy thing to agree upon There were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence by Aug. 2, 1776. The motion for independence was adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress on July 2, 1776, but the actual declaration ...
When the bats have been put away and the day’s games are done, teams leave the Beast of the East tournament fields in droves, and often as a team, to refuel for the next day. Local businesses owners say the participants in the Beast are a huge boon to business, and that if their restaurants ...
Editor’s note: Fallout from the 13-year tenure of former Wheeling-Charleston Diocese bishop Michael Bransfield continues, as an investigative report leaked last month details excessive spending by the bishop and sexual harassment of priests and seminarians. Archbishop William Lori of ...
The Seventh Appellate District has upheld the conviction of David Carl Kinney for the May 2017 killing of Brad McGarry. Kinney, 32, of Brilliant was sentenced February of 2018 by Belmont County Common Pleas Judge Frank Fregiato after an eight-day trial saw him found guilty of aggravated ...