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WSO To Close Out 2025-26 Season

WHEELING – The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will wrap up its 2025-26 season on Friday, May 8, with a Masterworks concert titled Take Me Home at the Capitol Theatre. The concert will feature electric violinist Tracy Silverman and a program that includes Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 – also known ...

Trump Signs Bill Funding DHS, Ending Record Shutdown

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in ...

West Virginia Seeks Dismissal of DOJ Lawsuit Over Voter Data Request

CHARLESTON – Attorneys for West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner asked a federal judge this week to dismiss an attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize unredacted voter registration information. In a legal memorandum filed Wednesday evening with the U.S. District Court ...

DeFranco Financial Celebrates 10 Years

Photo provided DeFranco Financial is celebrating 10 years in Wheeling and the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce joined in that celebration this week by holding a ceremonial ribbon cutting to honor the business' milestone as well as renovations made to its office. Dustin DeFranco founded ...

U.S. Stocks Rally To Finish Their Best Month Since 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S stock market motored to more records Thursday as profits keep piling up for Alphabet, Caterpillar and other big businesses. The gains came after the latest whipsaw moves for oil prices, which surged toward their highest levels since the war with Iran began only to quickly regress. The S&P 500 rallied 1% and topped its prior all-time high to close out its best month in more than five years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 790 points, or 1.6%, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.9% to its own record. Alphabet led the way and rallied 10% after the ...

Greyhound Racing Could End Now That U.S. House Has Passed Farm Bill

WHEELING — A provision in the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026 that passed the U.S. House on Thursday would criminalize greyhound racing nationwide. That means the nation’s two remaining dog tracks — Wheeling Island Casino Hotel Racetrack and Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, both ...