Breaking News

Fort Frye awarded grants for STEM, hygiene needs

BEVERLY — Fort Frye Local Schools has received $12,000 in grants from the AEP Ohio Foundation to support career-technical education and student health needs. Fort Frye High School received a $10,000 STEM grant to purchase a programmable logic controller for its career-technical ...

Picture This: Wreaths placed at Parkersburg’s expanded 9/11 memorial

PARKERSBURG - The annual wreath-laying by Parkersburg police and firefighters for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks took place Friday morning at the city's expanded 9/11 monument. It includes two stamped concrete squares marking the scaled footprints of the World Trade ...

Lawsuit filed over alleged contamination from Chemours landfill

CHARLESTON – A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Washington, W.Va., residents who say their property was contaminated by hazardous materials – including forever chemicals – from a landfill used by Chemours. Filed Sept. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the complaint alleges that hazardous chemicals including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, were released from the landfill and migrated through surrounding soil, groundwater and other pathways, according to a release from R. Booth Goodwin II, one ...

Two suspects in NC murder dead in Ohio

ATHENS – Two suspects in a North Carolina homicide were found dead Friday after a pursuit in Athens and Jackson counties, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. An automated license plate reader shortly before 8:20 a.m. Friday identified a black Mercedes-Benz registered to an owner wanted in a ...

President Trump signs U.S. Sen. Justice’s Medal of Honor memorial bill

CHARLESTON - On the eve of the 25th commemoration of the lives lost on 9/11, President Donald Trump signed U.S. Sen. Jim Justice's first bill paying tribute to the heroes, alive and deceased, who have been honored with the nation's highest military tribute. Trump signed S. 858, the "Hershel ...