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Parkersburg Utility Board approves payments for water project

Local News

PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Utility Board on Tuesday approved a combined $207,215.31 in payments to Triton Construction Inc. for an ongoing $3.3 million improvement project at the wastewater treatment plant. The company is completing the first of two clarifiers, which allow solids in ...

Economist touts business advantages of AI automation

Business

MARIETTA — Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to automate up to 25% of work tasks in a day, said Goldman Sachs senior economist Joseph Briggs during a lecture at the Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley Tuesday. The estimate comes from a report Goldman Sachs compiled, ...

The Arc offering scholarship

Community News

PARKERSBURG — A scholarship for local students who are or will be within the calendar year full-time students at an accredited college or university studying for a degree that relates to working with individuals with cognitive or intellectual disabilities is being offered by The Arc of the ...

Swift’s dad accused of punching photographer

Local News

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A photographer told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the Sydney waterfront on Tuesday, hours after the pop star’s Australian tour ended. Ben McDonald said he provided police with a statement alleging that Scott Swift assaulted him ...

Order on the court

Local News

Duke coach Jon Scheyer wants the Atlantic Coast Conference to implement measures to prevent court-storming after star big man Kyle Filipowski was hobbled following a collision with a fan during a weekend loss at Wake Forest. Scheyer said Monday that Filipowski was “a little bit sore” ...