Bellaire Track Coach, Teacher Arrested On Child Obscenity Charges

BELLAIRE – Longtime Bellaire track coach and teacher Shawn Valloric was arrested Thursday on child obscenity charges. Belmont County Sheriff James Zusack said that his criminal investigation unit received information on Thursday afternoon from the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children that ...

Task Force Tip Led To Coach’s Arrest

BELLAIRE – Longtime Bellaire track coach and teacher Shawn Valloric was arrested Thursday and faces child pornography charges. On Thursday morning, Belmont County Sheriff James Zusack’s criminal investigation unit received information from the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task ...

Wide Variety Of Interests On Display At Social Studies Fair

MOUNDSVILLE – Marshall County students showed off their knowledge in such varied areas as “Moundsville’s Haunted Prison,” “Women Pirates” and “Norse Paganism” at the county’s social studies fair on Thursday. The event took place at the John Marshall Field House in ...

Alleged Double Murderer Appears In Court

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Alleged double murderer Andrew Isaac Griffin was back in Belmont County Common Pleas Court for another pre-trial hearing on Friday afternoon. Griffin is accused of the double homicide of his Salsa Joe’s Restaurant business partner Thomas Strussion and his wife Angela ...

From Wheeling To The World: U13 Team Bound for Chile

WHEELING – The FC Wheeling United U13 boys team is preparing for a rare international opportunity as it readies for a trip to Chile, where the players will compete in the Torneo Internacional de Fútbol Infantil in Santiago. The team leaves for South America today. For the players and ...

Morrisey Announces $4B Investment Into Data Center For Berkeley County

CHARLESTON – The development of a high tech data center will provide jobs and economic development that will benefit the entire state, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Thursday. "Penzance Management is making a historic $4 billion private sector investment in the state of West Virginia,” Morrisey said. The campus of the “high-impact intelligence center” will sit on 548 acres in Falling Waters in Berkeley County. Once it is built, it will cover 1.9 million square feet and deliver 600 megawatts of “critical IT capacity.” “Maybe a little more,” the governor ...