CARL KIRKBRIDE

Carl E. Kirkbride, born on December 15, 1958, in Wheeling, West Virginia, passed away peacefully on March 5, 2026, at the age of 67, at Good Shepherd Nursing Home after a long illness. Carl dedicated over 40 years of his life to serving the City of Wheeling in operations, where he was known ...

Trump Says He Wants To Be Involved in Picking Iran’s Next Leader

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day. Iran kept up retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the region. Trump ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei, a front-runner to replace his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening strikes of the war. Trump’s comments to the American news website Axios were likely to renew questions about whether the U.S. and Israel seek the overthrow of the ...

Trump Says He Wants To Be Involved in Picking Iran’s Next Leader

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day. Iran kept up retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the ...

West Virginia Lawmakers Chip Away at Water Protections

West Virginia lawmakers in the Senate passed a bill to weaken drinking water protections by loosening regulations for certain aboveground storage tanks. It is the latest move to weaken the Aboveground Storage Tank Act, passed in 2014 after a chemical leak from Freedom Industries along the Elk River contaminated drinking water for nearly 300,000 West Virginians in the Charleston area. The bill would further decrease the number of tanks that must meet inspection and monitoring requirements designed to protect drinking water. It would exempt smaller tanks, which are those with a ...

Postal Service Says It’s on Track To Go Broke Within a Year

The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview. If it doesn’t, the Postal Service might not be able to pay its employees or vendors by February ...

U.S. Senate Again Fails To Pass Homeland Security Funding Bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they made another unsuccessful effort Thursday to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats are insisting on changes to immigration enforcement operations as part of the measure and blocked it from advancing. The procedural vote was 51-45, falling well short of the 60 that Republicans needed to proceed with the measure. While the House will also take up the bill Thursday, that outcome will be more about putting lawmakers on the record about where they ...