Martins Ferry residents voted overwhelmingly against increasing the city’s income tax on Tuesday. According to unofficial totals provided by the Belmont County Board of Elections, 992 votes were cast in opposition to the tax, while 301 were cast in favor of the tax hike. The city ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set a June 3 date for the murder trial of a former Southern California street gang leader who has become the only person ever charged in the 1996 killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Duane “Keffe D” Davis made a brief court appearance in shackles Tuesday and spoke quietly with two court-appointed attorneys who were named to his case before he pleaded not guilty last Thursday. Davis remains jailed in Las Vegas. His public defenders, Charles Cano and Robert Arroyo, said they intend to file documents seeking his release on bail ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, an R.E.M. album arrived that didn’t sound like a typical R.E.M. album. “Up,” the band’s 11th album which dropped in the fall of 1998, was a curious and challenging collection that split fans and critics alike but reveals more interesting things with each listen. A newly remastered reissue out Friday offers a chance to reevaluate. “A lot of people may not have liked it because it didn’t sound like ‘R.E.M.,’ whatever that is. But that was not the point. We were not trying to sound like R.E.M. We were trying to sound like the ...
Wheeling Park High School Ra’myah Askerneese has her photo taken in the cockpit of a Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter that was landed on the WPHS track infield by West Virginia Army National Guard pilots. CW2 Dane Van Zyl, left, of the WVANG looks on. The exhibition was done in part to ...
In the past, as in the present, the greedy succeed through audacity. That’s what I found myself thinking as I rewatched “The Name of the Rose,” a mystery set in 1327. Based on a historically accurate book by Umberto Eco, the movie follows William of Baskerville, a Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of murders in an Italian monastery. At one of the tensest parts of the film, amid hunger, deprivation and death, a papal delegacy arrives to engage in a theological debate. The topic: Did Jesus own the clothes he wore? As ridiculous as it might seem, the movie soon ...
While campaigning in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the surge of migrants at the border. “When I’m president,” the former Republican governor of South Carolina said, “we’re going to stop catch-and-release, and we’re going to start catch-and-deport.” No president has put forth such a stern-sounding policy on illegal immigration since Democrat Barack Obama. His administration deported over 2.5 million undocumented entrants, concentrating on those who had committed crimes. Obama was dumped on by immigrant advocates who called him “deporter in chief.” ...
