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Military Banner Program Holds Final KIA Ceremonies for the Year

WHEELING — The Wheeling Military Banner Program held its final ceremonies of the year Thursday honoring two city natives who were killed in action during World War II. The two new banners are among a total of 437 military banners that are on display throughout the city as part of the ...

Local Firefighters Recognized for 9/11 Rescue Efforts

Twenty-five years ago today, what many consider to be the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history took place as a series of four coordinated strikes by al-Qaida, using commercial airliners, resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damage to the ...

Flight 93 Memorial Visitors Reflect On Moments From 9/11

September 11, 2001 is a day that many Americans will never forget. Thoughts of where people were, what they saw and how they felt that day remain in their minds 25 years later. At the Flight 93 National Memorial Park, visitors carry those memories with them as they honor the 40 passengers and ...

Lights of Hope to Shine in Moundsville

MOUNDSVILLE — The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Lights of Hope Display is slated to appear from 5-9 p.m. today at the Marshall County Courthouse. Karen Coffield, volunteer with the Marshall County Relay For Life, said there will be more than 300 luminaries set up around the ...

Sinclair Building Targeted For 'Public Nuisance' Designation

STEUBENVILLE — The city of Steubenville wants a judge to declare the 111-year-old Sinclair Building at Fourth and Market streets a “public nuisance.” The petition, filed Tuesday in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court, asks the court to force the owners to repair the building or demolish ...

9/11 Remembrance Ceremony A Calling For Rabbi Joshua Lief

The first remembrance ceremony for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom was part of came one year after those attacks in 2002. He was still in the seminary as a student rabbi, with a small congregation in Lafayette, Louisiana, as his student ...