WHEELING — Wheeling Middle School special education teacher Tiffany Barnes is the 2026 West Virginia Teacher of the Year. Barnes received the honor during ceremonies Tuesday night at the West Virginia Culture Center in Charleston. “I am completely just dumbfounded,” Barnes said. ...
Paden City officials have until Sept. 19 to update the West Virginia Public Service Commission as to whether the city has installed a manual transfer switch to the air stripper unit at its water treatment plant. A malfunction of that air stripper unit led to Paden City residents being unable ...
CHARLESTON – No special session was called this week to address future costs for West Virginia’s public worker health care benefit program, but a new report aims to provide lawmakers with recommendations for bringing costs down, including booting county and city government participants and ...
Leroy Charley, the man convicted of the aggravated homicide of a woman who was beaten, bitten, partially strangled and stabbed 20 times in the chest, recently was denied parole and remains incarcerated in Ohio’s Southeastern Correctional Institution. The body of 42-year-old Sue Forbes, ...
WHEELING — A pair of Wheeling Park High School students have found themselves in rarified air among the high school seniors in the United States, announced as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists on Tuesday. WPHS seniors Christopher Alkhouri and Nathan Tyska have been picked among ...
Noting a desire to focus on his family and a feeling he has left the county in a better place than when he first took office, Brooke County Commissioner A.J. Thomas announced Tuesday his plans to step down from the post March 1. “When I first ran for this office, I had no children. In ...
