WHEELING — Those travelling along WV 2 recently might have been craning their necks to catch a glimpse of a helicopter hovering around the Ohio County-Marshall County border. That copter was helping out an American Electric Power high-voltage transmission line project that wrapped up this ...

PARKERSBURG — A former aide convicted of killing patients at the Louis A. Johnson Clarksburg VA Medical Center got the appropriate sentence, a U.S. senator from West Virginia said Tuesday. Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg to seven consecutive life ...

The fired nursing assistant who admitted to killing seven elderly veterans with lethal doses of insulin was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms Tuesday. Mays, 46, of Reynoldsville, pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of second-degree murder. She admitted at a July plea hearing to ...

WHEELING — Members of the Wheeling Police Department helped kick off National Police Week in distinguished fashion Tuesday during the department's eighth annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony. With members of the command staff and Honor Guard in full formal dress uniforms, Wheeling ...

U.S. regulators on Monday expanded the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12, offering a way to protect the nation’s adolescents before they head back to school in the fall and paving the way for them to return to more normal activities. Shots could begin as soon as ...

BETHANY — Former West Virginia first lady Gayle Manchin is now at the helm as federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She said she now will lead the commission to seek federal funding for such items as broadband, highway expansion and opioid addiction programs for ...