WELLSBURG — The Brooke County Commission Tuesday agreed to abandon plans to establish a volunteer committee to consider requests for opioid settlement funds and instead directly review the requests themselves. The decision came following a 30-minute executive session with Brooke County ...
The Marshall County Strings Program will get to rock out during its annual benefit concert coming Feb. 24 at the John Marshall High School Center for the Performing Arts. The concert, “Retro Rewind,” will feature iconic musing from the 1960s through the 1980s. Guests will hear everything ...
NEW CUMBERLAND – As the calendar moves toward the celebration of the nation's 250th birthday, one local county has submitted its design for a state-supported mural program. The Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau has been working with members of the community in recent ...
WHEELING – West Virginia State Treasurer Larry Pack presented unclaimed property check for $8,852.69 to Sheriff Nelson Croft and the Ohio County Sheriff’s Office Friday night at WesBanco Arena, delivering the funds on the ice during pregame ceremonies ahead of the Wheeling Nailers matchup ...
Several voting rights groups sued Friday to stop Ohio’s new voting laws from taking effect. After sending a letter to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose last month, asking him to take corrective action on Senate Bill 293, the League of Women Voters of Ohio and CAIR-Northern Ohio filed a federal lawsuit Friday. The groups, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project, the Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU of Ohio, say the new laws violate the National Voter Registration Act and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Among other things, SB293 ended ...
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Feb. 15, 1898: Musician John Homer “Uncle Homer” Walker was born in Mercer County. Among the last in a tradition of Black Appalachian ...
