High school football returns to our region this evening when the 73rd edition of the Rudy Mumley Ohio Valley Athletic Conference All-Star Football Charity Classic is played. This year’s game, which is scheduled to start at 7:15 p.m., returns to Wheeling Island Stadium. It once again will ...
Many drivers, spotting an emergency vehicle ahead of them on the berm, instinctively edge to the left in their lane or, if on a multi-lane highway, scoot over to the left lane. It just makes sense. In Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia it also happens to be the law. All three states are ...
The times they are a-changin’ in the Buckeye State. Now, it is possible to go to college and major in dope. Really. Nelsonville-based Hocking College plans to offer new courses in marijuana. The goal is to offer an associate of applied science in laboratory sciences with a major in ...
Though he met a tragic death at an all-too-young age, Lee West’s legacy of hope and help remains alive in our community. We were reminded of that Saturday, when the annual Lee West Birthday Bash was held in Steubenville’s Belleview Park. West was just 15 when he died in a house fire on ...
Generations of area steelworkers and others gathered Saturday at the Serbian Picnic Grounds for the 72nd rendition of the annual Weirton Steel 25-Year Club Picnic. It was a chance for current and past employees of what once was Weirton Steel with at least 25 years at the local mill to enjoy ...
So crazy has the lawsuit climate become that a court filing this week probably should have come as no surprise. Still, it is more than a little unsettling. MGM Resorts International, which owns the Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas, has filed suit against hundreds of victims of the mass ...
Ohio State University’s energy and openness in investigating allegations of sexual misbehavior by a long-dead physician for some athletic teams has been commendable. Turns out that may have been a sea change, compared to the attitude when the doctor was alive and working at OSU. Dr. Richard ...
Given the firestorm that erupted over his joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump had no choice but to walk back one comment he made in Finland on Monday. In answering reporters’ questions Monday, Trump, standing feet from Putin, indicated skepticism ...
What happened to Emmett Till helped focus many Americans’ attention on the civil rights struggle during the 1950s. Till was just 14 years old when white men in Mississippi tortured and murdered him in 1955. He died because a white woman claimed the African-American lad had whistled at ...
One suspects West Virginia legislators looking into delays in helping victims of 2016 floods in many counties knew one of the answers to their questions before they were even asked. Why, more than six months after federal officials approved nearly $150 million for flood victims, had the state ...