PARKERSBURG — Two Boys & Girls Club of Parkersburg staff members and a former board member recently received statewide honors for their work with the organization, according to a news release. Darlene Murphy was named CEO of the Year by her colleagues, Vienna site unit director Crystal ...
BELPRE – A Belpre youth soccer coach was arrested recently for allegedly disseminating a fabricated sexual image involving one of his players. Adam K. Johnson, 42, of Belpre was arrested Sept. 24 by the Belpre Police Department and waived a preliminary hearing in Marietta Municipal Court on ...
MARIETTA – Faith and Blue, a national event of law enforcement officers and area churches joining together, will be held 3-5 p.m. Oct. 11 at Muskingum Park on Front Street. Food, music and activities for children and adults. The event is free and open to the public. Law enforcement from both sides of the Ohio River are partnering for an afternoon that will include an honor ceremony, face painting, barrel rides, law enforcement equipment demonstrations, a police dog unit, a mounted horse unit, corn hole, inflatables for children and free food. For more about the national program, go ...
PARKERSBURG – Fall fire season starts Thursday in Ohio and West Virginia when residents are encouraged to follow the regulations, take precautions and use common sense when burning outside. Top of the list is to adhere to the times when burning is prohibited, Chief Mark Wile of the Warren ...
CHARLESTON — After being selected earlier in September to participate in a new nuclear energy program, Gov. Patrick Morrisey and state energy officials submitted a letter Wednesday night declining to proceed after the governor said the state would not be a dumping ground for waste. The ...
CHARLESTON – After executive orders and decisions by the Supreme Court, the U.S. Department of Education has put back in place specific rules for biological girls and women that groups say will harm transgender girls and women. In an announcement Monday, the Department of Education reestablished rules set in 2020 during the first term of President Donald Trump in federal Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination in education based on sex, putting back in place biological definitions for sex. Among other things, the update formally rescinds Title IX rules set in 2024 by ...
