CHARLESTON — With county health departments being inundated with calls for COVID-19 vaccinations and growing waiting lists, West Virginia will have an online appointment and registration system to help get more people into the pipeline.
Gov. Jim Justice and state health officials announced ...
WHEELING — Gov. Jim Justice’s daily coronavirus press conference revealed that next week will see the unveiling of a statewide online registry for COVID-19 vaccinations, which was met with optimism from local health departments.
Mark Ackermann, threat preparedness director for the ...
WHEELING — Despite significant losses in revenues halfway through the fiscal year, the city of Wheeling has remained in good shape financially, thanks in large part to federal CARES Act funds.
Even without the federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act reimbursements ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice Thursday that America’s war on COVID-19 is under new command, promising progress to reduce infections and lift the siege it has endured for nearly a year.
At the same time, he tried to manage ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Chavez had no idea where a sculpture of his father, Latino American civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez, would end up in the White House.
He agreed just this week to lend the bronze bust to President Joe Biden and hustled to get it wrapped up and shipped ...
CHARLESTON — As West Virginia’s two teachers’ unions filed lawsuits to block a state Board of Education mandate for in-person school, Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday he applauded board members for holding their ground.
“I am really happy our schools have reopened for in-person ...
LONACONING, Md. (AP) — The latest jackpot-winning Powerball ticket, worth $731.1 million, was sold in a struggling coal mining town whose biggest previous claim to fame was being the hometown of baseball Hall of Famer Lefty Grove.
Someone bought it at Coney Market, a convenience store in ...
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” and summoning American resilience and unity to confront the deeply divided nation’s historic confluence of crises.
Denouncing a national “uncivil ...
WHEELING — America has a new president, and local residents are reflecting on just what that means.
For Teddie Grogan, co-chair of the Ohio County Democrat Women, Inauguration Day was a day of celebration tempered with memories of an insurgency at the U.S. Capitol just two weeks ago.
“I ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took the oath Wednesday to hold the nation’s second-highest office.
Hours after she was sworn in as the first female U.S. vice ...
WHEELING — The Ohio County Board of Education’s president is hoping for a quick resolution to contract negotiations with the Ohio County Commission for prevention resource officers in many of their schools. That contract, which puts Ohio County sheriff’s deputies in those schools, has ...
CHARLESTON — With some counties continuing to offer remote learning despite a mandate for in-person learning, the West Virginia Board of Education decided Wednesday to wait until next week before taking action against those counties.
“They are not going to do it that way. It’s not going ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Donald Trump’s legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The new president ...
MARTINS FERRY — Local political leaders are speaking out following the inauguration Wednesday of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States of America.
Phil Wallace, chairman of the Belmont County Democrat Party, is optimistic about the future of the country following Biden’s ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The country has a new president and a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew.”
The 22-year-old Gorman ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Leaders across the globe welcomed the arrival of U.S. President Joe Biden and the end of the often confrontational presidency of Donald Trump, noting the world’s most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral cooperation, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law.
The Constitution does not require the use of a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that "democracy has prevailed." He swore the oath of office to take the helm of a deeply divided nation and inheriting a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his ...
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier Wednesday that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took the oath to hold the nation's second-highest office.
Harris ...