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Wheeling Police Cpl. R.J. Faldowski, right, talks to West Virginia Northern Community College students Ava Lucas, left, of Bethesda, Ohio, and Lisa Indermuhle, center, of Sardis, as they work a mock crime scene Monday. Students spent about an hour working the scene, collecting and documenting evidence and interviewing victims. Criminal justice program director John Lantz […]

WEST LIBERTY – Indiana University Southeast Interim Chancellor Kelly Ryan was struck not only with the beauty of West Liberty University’s campus, but by the people who make up its faculty, staff and student body. Depending on how her visit – and the visit of three others over the next two weeks – she could […]

WHEELING – There are 17 new election coordinators among West Virginia’s 55 counties heading into the next election. That’s just shy of a third of the Mountain State’s counties that have new people at the helm of those respective counties’ election process. West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner believes that’s the largest amount of […]

WHEELING – Eleven notable Wheeling names – whose contributions to their respective fields span the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries – were announced Friday as the Wheeling Hall of Fame’s 2023 Induction Class. What those 11 have meant not just to Wheeling, but far beyond the city’s borders, is what Hall of Fame committee members […]

WHEELING – Main Street Bank President and CEO Rich Lucas said he has been pleased that for 22 years, he has offered good news to shareholders at their annual meeting. Their meeting Thursday, where Lucas recapped Main Street’s 2022 performance, was what he considered another notch in that streak. Lucas told shareholders Thursday afternoon at […]

When the hundreds of participants in the Tough As Nails Urban Challenge presented by The Health Plan hit the dirt to shimmy through the “Worm Crawl” at Grow Ohio Valley’s property, they’ll have welding students at West Virginia Northern Community College to thank. Those students are lending their talents to help the Ogden Newspapers Wellness […]

WHEELING – Amanda Jenkins spent the day after Christmas in 2015 in the hospital. Her lung had spontaneously collapsed for the ninth of 10 times between June 2013 and February 2016. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an infant, by that day in 2015, her lung function had dropped to 27% and she was on constant […]

WHEELING — In less than a week, the Tunnel Ridge Prep Plant is back in operation after a fire caused extensive damage. Tunnel Ridge General Manager Eric Anderson said the company started half of the plant Saturday and the other half on Sunday morning. Multiple fire departments from Brooke and Ohio counties in West Virginia […]

WHEELING – The community is invited to come escape to late 19th Century Hawaii, change history, and help the last Hawaiian queen defeat the business forces that destroyed the monarchy. The imprisonment of Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii, is the subject of an “escape room” opening for visitors on Monday in the former bookstore […]

WHEELING — The gift of leadership involves being “inwardly sound” and caring about others, and that’s what makes a good coach or mentor, according to Tony Caridi, long-time voice of West Virginia University men’s basketball and football. Caridi served as keynote speaker as the Salvation Army of Wheeling hosted its annual “Thank You Luncheon” for […]