MOUNDSVILLE — Marshall County prosecutors are taking legal action against a senior status judge who upheld a plea deal — even after prosecutors had orphaned it. Prosecutor Rhonda Wade said Monday that her office is filing a writ of prohibition against retired Judge Arthur Recht because the ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Trump Administration officials are continuing to listen as West Virginia officials push for an expanded Interstate 68 from Morgantown through Marshall County. Marshall County Commissioner Robert Miller led a contingent to Washington, D.C., last week to meet with Brittany ...
HELSINKI (AP) — In an extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump on Monday openly questioned his own intelligence agencies’ firm finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered a temporary halt to deportations of immigrant families reunited after being separated at the border, as the Trump administration races to meet a July 26 deadline for putting more than 2,500 children back in their parents’ arms. U.S. ...
WHEELING — City firefighters will pass the boot to benefit the Augusta Levy Learning Center during an upcoming Waterfront Wednesday event. They are also inviting the public to come take shots at dunking Chief Larry Helms and Mayor Glenn Elliott in a dunk tank during the event. Wheeling ...
Photo by Scott McCloskey Motorists travel Monday along National Road in the Elm Grove section of Wheeling, where a power outage left customers without electricity for most of the day. AEP said a tree fell on a pole that then broke, which caused the power lines to fall and the blackout to ...
UPDATE -- AEP officials said about 2,700 customers remain without power from Washington Avenue east to Elm Grove. About 1,000 customers have had power restored. Power is expected to be restored for 100 percent of the outage area by 6 p.m. AEP spokesman Joelle Connors said a tree fell on a ...
WHEELING — Firefighters soon will be asked to participate in a federal registry seeking to identify links between their job, health and cancer risks. Firefighters in the Ohio Valley, meanwhile, already are taking extra measures to clean, wash off and eradicate the soot and carcinogens ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Even before the specter of a trade war with China and other countries threatened to cost them billions of dollars, American farmers were feeling the squeeze from fluctuating crop prices and other factors that have halved their overall income in recent years. The ...
MORRISTOWN — Since 1977, thousands of fans have gathered each year in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio to take part in the longest-running country music festival in America — Jamboree In The Hills. Jamboree, often called Jambo or abbreviated as JITH, began as a modest, two-day outdoor ...
BETHESDA — Tina Khalil drove 22 hours for the Chautauqua Homecoming Days & Bethesda Festival. Khalil and her daughters — Allison, 17, and Samantha, 15 — said they came from Houston to spend their summertime in Bethesda. “I wanted my daughters to enjoy what I was able to enjoy as ...
WHEELING — Private rooms for every patient, welcoming gardens and a spectacular mountaintop view are just some of the amenities awaiting residents and visitors at the new Bishop Michael J. Bransfield Continuous Care Center of Wheeling Hospital. The new facility was unveiled Saturday ...
MORRISTOWN — Residents of western Belmont County are being alerted that a black bear may be roaming the area. Sheriff David Lucas on Saturday confirmed that his office has received reports of bear sightings in the rea of the Jamboree In The Hills site, located along National Road east of ...
McMECHEN — Hot weather throughout the day broke in the evening to allow crowds to come out from hiding at McMechen’s fourth Lock 13 Riverfest. Mayor David Goddard said the crowds Friday came in the evening and would not leave, signifying a good start to the year’s festivities. People ...
WHEELING — An ancient tradition of faith spanning 5,000 years had reason to celebrate Saturday — it has had a voice in the Ohio Valley for 1 percent of that time. ISKON New Vrindaban brought the joyous music and colors of the Palace of Gold to Wheeling’s Heritage Port on Saturday, for ...
CHARLESTON — Even with President Donald Trump firing back in the trade war with China, the West Virginia official working hands-on with the Chinese on a proposed investment in the state’s natural gas industry still believes the deal will come through. The Trump administration announced ...
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Thunderstorms are in the forecast for the next few days in the Eastern Panhandle, but on Friday a different type of phenomenon hit the area: Stormy Daniels. The adult film star and dancer, who is suing President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement regarding an ...
WHEELING — The West Virginia Division of Highways should inform Wheeling officials next week whether a plan for two-way traffic downtown will be accepted. The DOH will make its decision based upon a study it solicited from the Burgess and Niple engineering firm. Details of that study — ...
CHARLESTON — The former director of technology for the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals gave lawmakers an account Friday of state computers being used for personal use by a justice already under federal investigation. The House Judiciary Committee met for the second day of hearings ...
BENWOOD — Plans to extend an access road further into Benwood’s industrial park are likely to cost the city about $2 million. The Burgess and Niple engineering firm of Parkersburg has crafted three options for continuing an access road in the park to keep truck traffic out of Center ...