Story and Video: Wheeling Fire Department Holds Fallen Firefighter Ceremony
Thursday was a solemn day for Wheeling Fire Department Lt. Rick Brown. It marked the department's annual Fallen Firefighter Ceremony, when the 10 Wheeling firefighters who died in the line of duty are remembered. The date of the ceremony -- the date the last firefighter was lost -- holds a ...
Beech Bottom Gets State Funding To Shore Up Water System
BEECH BOTTOM – The village of Beech Bottom has two side-by-side water tanks that are going to see nearly $300,000 in repairs in the coming weeks with help from the state of West Virginia. Additional state money will also go toward a long-awaited water main and fire hydrant project along ...
Blair Seeks Seat On Wetzel County Commission
Michael “Mike” Blair is seeking election to the Wetzel County Commission. A lifelong Wetzel County resident and a 1977 graduate of Magnolia High School, Blair has lived in Green Acres for the past 46 years. He and his wife, Charlene (Yoho) Blair, have three children and nine ...
Temporary restraining order granted blocking AG McCuskey investigation into environmental groups
CHARLESTON - After hearing more than an hour of arguments Thursday, U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey from investigating environmental advocacy organizations. In an order released Thursday ...
Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86
Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas to a "Star Trek" franchise and the "X-Men" films, has died. He was 86. Stewart died Wednesday in Los Angeles, following "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy ...