BETHANY — Grief counselors were at Brooke Middle School on Monday after an eighth-grader was killed in an ATV crash Friday night. Izabella Buck, 14, of Follansbee, died at the scene of the crash and another girl was injured, Brooke County Sheriff Larry Palmer said Monday. Chief Deputy ...
HHOMA Financial Literacy Class in Wheeling to focus on smart planning, scams and underbanked obstacles Free class open to the public April 23 in Wheeling CHARLESTON, WV — The Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs has partnered with WV Legal Aid’s Financial Exploitation Division to ...
WHEELING — Stepping onto the campus of Wheeling Country Day School on a warm spring day last week, it was obvious there is something unique, welcoming and wonderful happening there. Students were engaged in outdoor classroom activities in the green spaces of the campus. The classroom ...
MORGANTOWN — Five West Virginia University women — two of whom are from Wheeling — have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English abroad next year. Karen Laska and Jordan Miller join three others in the Fulbright Program, which is the U.S. government’s ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County’s newest humane group, Belmont County Hoof and Paw, has been active in the cause of helping injured or at-risk livestock in the past months. Julie Larish, who owns a farm in Jacobsburg, is spearheading the group and said the members are seeking training to ...
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings which killed ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani insisted Sunday there was “nothing wrong” with the president’s 2016 campaign taking information from the Russians, as House Democrats pledged stepped-up investigations into campaign misconduct and possible crimes of ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Work on a number of road repair projects in the Northern Panhandle has yet to begin more than a year after the federal government declared damage from flooding in West Virginia to be a disaster. About 43 percent of federally funded projects to fix roads in the region ...
WHEELING — A line of people close to a block long waited at the North Wheeling Community Dream Center on Saturday to receive food to help celebrate what is considered by many the most holy of Christian holidays today — Easter. Members of the Bethlehem Apostolic Temple held their annual ...
MOUNDSVILLE – While working as a psychotherapist for the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2012, Jeremy Harrison met an injured Iraq War veteran who had lost his job, his disability income and, worst of all, his family, because he couldn’t put together a budget. The former Army ...
WHEELING — Wheeling Jesuit University President Michael Mihalyo Jr. hopes the scaled-back institution finds an academic niche and continues to be an economic driver in the community. Since assuming the school’s presidency eight months ago, Mihalyo has confronted serious challenges. Faced ...
CARROLLTON (AP) — Authorities say the body of a 14-year-old boy reported missing last week on Sunday has been found in a shallow grave on a northeast Ohio farm. The Carroll County sheriff, prosecutor and coroner didn’t provide any details at a news conference Friday afternoon about how ...
WHEELING — For the past 34 years, every mission completed by the aviators at Company C, 1st Battalion, 150th Aviation Regiment based in Wheeling was done in an older-model, hand-me-down military helicopter — first the Bell UH-1 “Huey” and, starting in 2002, Sikorsky’s UH-60A/L Black ...
MORGANTOWN — The former chief economist at West Virginia University knows all too well how important economic research and data are to the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, the University and the state. For nearly three decades, Tom S. Witt headed the WVU Bureau of Business ...
CHARLESTON — The political campaigns for Gov. Jim Justice and Woody Thrasher have traded attacks mere days after the former Department of Commerce secretary entered the 2020 Republican primary for governor. The Justice campaign issued a press release Thursday night, titled “Justice ...
WHEELING — Owners of the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack are suing the providers of their sports betting app, which has now been off-line for more than two months. Delaware North — under its division Delaware North iGaming — filed suit Thursday in the Court of Chancery for the ...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Friday for special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report as Democrats intensified their investigation of President Donald Trump, but leaders stopped short of liberal demands for impeachment proceedings. House ...
WHEELING — Tails were wagging again at Wheeling’s dog park on Thursday afternoon after the facility reopened the day prior. The Fitzsimmons Family Dog Park, closed since November for drainage work and other repairs, reopened Wednesday morning to the delight of many Friendly City canine ...
WHEELING — Local officials are disputing an annual population estimate from the federal government that shows the Ohio Valley continues to lose residents. The estimate, released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, indicates that the population in the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
