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Capito: Reconciliation Bill First Step In Restoring Funding To ICE, Border Patrol

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 ...

Jury Recommends Life Without Mercy In Morgantown Murder Trial

MORGANTOWN – Rose Osborne was sitting at her kitchen table that day in November 2024 when she heard the knocking at her door. The woman who waited seven months for her daughter Kim Osborne to come home, saw the silhouette of the officer through the window. In that wrenching moment, she told a Monongalia County jury on Wednesday, she knew Kim was dead. In that wrenching moment, she told those jurors, she thought of her daughter, in the dark and dirt of her shallow grave, with animals and elements getting at her. A hunter discovered the skeletal remains of Kim Osborne, 48, in that ...

Wheeling’s Abbey Delk On Team That Wins Peabody Award

WHEELING – A podcast detailing an activist movement in the Catholic Church during the 1960s has won a Peabody Award, and a Wheeling native was part of the team that put it together. Abbey Delk, a 2018 Wheeling Park High School alumnus, was part of the team winning for the podcast series ...

Elm Grove Students Get Hands-On Earth Day Experience

WHEELING – Earth Day saw local energy companies lead local students to the water at Wheeling Creek and assist in stocking the waterway with trout. Then the students received a fishing pole for their efforts so they could come back and fish later. At least 150 employees of Expand Energy ...