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Follansbee Council looks to acquire former football field property

FOLLANSBEE – The City of Follansbee plans to make an offer for the purchase of property which once served as the football field to the former Follansbee Middle School. Council met in a special session Monday, with the five members in attendance approving a proposal to purchase the land at a ...

Protest in Weirton

Contributed About 25 residents of Ohio and West Virginia took to the sidewalks in front of Weirton's Millsop Community Center on Sunday to stand for democracy on Flag Day and against the policies of the Trump administration. The event was sponsored by Upper Ohio Valley Indivisible, an ...

Wheeling secures $2M to fix long-troubled Northern Parkway

WHEELING – A heavily traveled and uneven roadway connecting North Park in Wheeling with River Road is about to be reconstructed and made safer -- to the joy of those who live near that road and use it every day. U.S. Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., came to Wheeling on Monday to tour the stretch ...

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life. They found Robbie, a robot that rolls out of a hallway into their living room several times a day. "Do you want to exercise now? Please answer yes or no," the caregiver robot asks 59-year-old Brian Marquis, who has been living with a traumatic brain injury since a 2012 car crash. "Yes," he responds. Then he stands up as the robot's googly-eyed digital screen "face" morphs into an exercise video that guides him ...

Shelter on Sixth opens next week

STEUBENVILLE — The name of the city's new homeless shelter is important because it sends a clear message about what it stands for. “The Shelter on Sixth — SOS: The acronym conveys an urgent need of assistance for those who are experiencing homelessness and also evokes a feeling of hope ...