CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s U.S. senators praised the release Friday of additional federal education dollars that had been put on hold for nearly a month by the administration of President Donald Trump. In press releases Friday afternoon, Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice ...
BEVERLY — Fort Frye Local Schools Superintendent Stephanie Starcher has been named to Governor Mike DeWine’s newly formed Property Tax Reform Working Group — a bipartisan panel tasked with developing recommendations to provide targeted property tax relief while preserving essential ...
MARIETTA — Autumn Hughes heard about the struggles the Humane Society of the Ohio Valley is facing with overcrowding and wanted to help. At 8 years old, Hughes organized a lemonade stand fundraiser that she scheduled and hosted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Putnam Elementary School in ...
VINCENT — With a desire to change some things in his life, Warren High School student Tanner Pepper visited the Washington County Career Center and enrolled in the heavy equipment program. But soon he found his interests were in another field. “At Warren I was more of an athlete, ...
WHEELING — The life-changing work of Easterseals flew under James Sayre’s radar for 33 years until daughter Julia arrived two months early in May 2017. “I had probably been past the building hundreds if not thousands of times, never knowing what a critical role Easterseals would come to ...
CHARLES TOWN — An El Salvador native in the United States illegally was sentenced to at least 15 years in jail this week in the murder of a 23-year-old woman. David Antonio Calderon was indicted on one count of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a deceased human body in ...