WHEELING – West Virginia State Treasurer Larry Pack presented unclaimed property check for $8,852.69 to Sheriff Nelson Croft and the Ohio County Sheriff’s Office Friday night at WesBanco Arena, delivering the funds on the ice during pregame ceremonies ahead of the Wheeling Nailers matchup ...
Several voting rights groups sued Friday to stop Ohio’s new voting laws from taking effect. After sending a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose last month, asking him to take corrective action on Senate Bill 293, the League of Women Voters of Ohio and CAIR-Northern Ohio filed a federal lawsuit Friday. The groups, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project, the Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU of Ohio, say the new laws violate the National Voter Registration Act and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Among other things, SB293 ended ...
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Feb. 15, 1898: Musician John Homer “Uncle Homer” Walker was born in Mercer County. Among the last in a tradition of Black Appalachian ...
MOUNDSVILLE – By joining a national class action lawsuit against social media companies, the Marshall County Board of Education hopes to garner possible related funds in the future. The board recently approved joining the lawsuit being pursued by Grossman and Kelly and the Bullock Legal ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – St. Mary’s Central School’s Adeline Jackson, an eighth-grader, took home first place at the Times Leader Belmont County Regional Spelling Bee at the ECO Center on Thursday night. The words that separated first and second place were “parcheesi” and ...
A crack in a hot water tank led to a gas leak at Wheeling Park High School that sent students, staff and faculty home early Friday morning and canceled activities at the school for the rest of the day, said Ohio County Schools Director of Public Relations Karin Butyn. In a statement released late Friday morning, Butyn said a sensor at the school alerted officials to a potential gas leak at the south end of the building around 6:35 a.m. Several buses already had left the garage for morning routes. Ohio County Schools Operations Director David Crumm met Mountaineer Gas at WPHS for further ...
