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 ...
STEUBENVILLE — Riley Gaines, a former NCAA All-American swimmer and national advocate for women’s athletics, will speak at the Franciscan University of Steubenville at 7 p.m. March 3. Hosted by the Turning Point USA chapter at the university, the presentation will be held in the Pope St. ...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday called on pharmaceutical companies to provide increased price transparency and lower costs for drugs. Elected leaders on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health questioned pharmaceutical company leaders over their role in rising prices for prescription drugs. Several Congressional leaders accused pharmacy benefit managers of inflating drug costs beyond reasonable prices. UnitedHealthcare, a leading insurance provider, reimburses its own providers an average of 17% more than it pays independent providers for the same ...
