MARIETTA - Helping vets has helped a Washington County veterans advocate deal with the issues he faced upon his return to civilian life. Gene Venham, 63, served 31 years in the Army and Army Reserve including almost 12 months in Iraq where he and a group of MPs and engineers set up a ...
PARKERSBURG - Three tornadoes that touched down in Washington County and crossed the Ohio River into West Virginia last week were likely on the ground at the same time, the National Weather Service said. The Weather Service late Friday and Saturday nights issued preliminary assessments of the ...
PARKERSBURG — The American Red Cross has declared a national blood crisis for only the second time in its history as donations remain below hospital demand and supplies of some blood products fall to critically low levels. The supply of type O positive blood has dropped below a one-day ...
BUCKHANNON – Last week's flooding in Upshur and Lewis counties destroyed 33 homes, West Virginia's Senate and Congressional representatives said in a letter to President Donald Trump. The letter, dated Saturday and signed by Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice, both R-West ...
PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg City Council approved the final readings of ordinances authorizing a 5% discount for those who pay a full year of sanitation, fire and police fees in advance, while a resolution allocating funds for a downtown business grant program was rejected this week. The fee ...
CHARLESTON - Two days prior to Gov. Patrick Morrisey promoting West Virginia's back-to-school sales tax holiday, the annual School Clothing Allowance program funded through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program went dark, leading lawmakers and advocates to ask why. Morrisey was ...
