WHEELING – The problem with youths’ constant use of their cellphones isn’t what they are doing, but what they are missing out on, an expert told a crowd in Wheeling on Thursday night. Jim Harris, director of Marshall University’s Interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Center, served as ...
CHARLESTON – U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and her Senate colleagues pulled an all-nighter, voting early Thursday morning on a reconciliation package to keep essential immigration enforcement and border protection funded. The U.S. Senate voted 50-48 just after 3:35 a.m. Thursday for the fiscal year 2026 budget resolution, which includes funding for Immigrations and Custom Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security. The bill provides approximately $70 billion for these agencies. Senate Republican leadership passed the ...
BELLAIRE — Despite last week’s special council meeting that was meant to clear the air, tensions remained high Thursday as Councilwoman Janet Richardson challenged Mayor Robert Dodrill over the administration’s handling of village finances and operations. “You are the mayor, you do ...
NEW CUMBERLAND – A proposal that would have used a portion of the county’s opioid settlement funds to cover the costs of Hancock County’s regional jail fees was blocked from discussion Thursday. Commissioner Tommy Ogden moved for discussion on the resolution “to utilize Opioid ...
A Wheeling man will serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after being sentenced Thursday in the First Judicial Circuit Court of West Virginia for the first-degree murder of his wife on Wheeling Island. Though parole is possible, Dwayne Herring, 54, was sentenced by Circuit Judge ...
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey celebrated the bill giving state health officials spending authority to use the $199 million federal Rural Health Transformation award in a ceremonial bill signing Thursday. Morrisey traveled to Princeton Community Hospital in Mercer County ...
