GLEN DALE – Saturday saw many community members join forces to pack 30,000 meals for the annual Rise Against Hunger event. The event took place at St. Jude’s Church Hall and was sponsored in part by the Rotary Clubs of Moundsville, New Martinsville and Wheeling. Rotary Club Area 2 ...
(AP) — A woman raising two children was among the six U.S. service members killed last week when a refueling plane involved in the war with Iran crashed in western Iraq. Tech Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, hailed from a large family in Bardstown, Kentucky, and was “very, very” proud of her military career, her husband Gregory Pruitt said Sunday. “I’ll give you something brief — in a word, radiant,” he said on a phone interview, trying to hold back tears. “If there was a light in the room, she was it.” Survivors include the couple’s 3-year-old daughter and Sgt. ...
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s appeal to China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz “open and safe” brought no commitments on Sunday as oil prices soar during the Iran war. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC he has been “in dialogue” with some of the countries, and said he expected China “will be a constructive partner” in reopening the strait through which one-fifth of global oil exports normally pass. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS that Tehran has been “approached by a ...
WHEELING – An Ohio County Schools administrator has resigned following an alleged altercation with a student. While the school district did not confirm the name of the administrator who had resigned, the district’s website has posted the principal’s job at Wheeling Middle School, which had been held by Rich McCardle. A statement from the school district central office states leadership “recently became aware of an allegation of inappropriate physical contact between a school administrator and a student.” “OCS immediately reported the incident to the West Virginia ...
STEUBENVILLE — When temperatures plunged into the single digits just before Christmas, a 24-year-old domestic assault victim and her 8-month-old baby were locked out of their home with just the clothes on their backs while another child slept in a second-story bedroom. The woman, who was pregnant, told police she had been kicked in the stomach and back, choked and thrown to the ground before her boyfriend fled with the house key, prosecutors said. She had no money, no family in the area and nowhere to go — a situation exacerbated by Urban Mission’s decision to close all its ...
MORRISTOWN – While attending a church picnic in 2022, Morristown resident John Rataiczak’s wife Melissa started “feeling funny.” Then she noticed the left side of her body was losing feeling and then her speech started to slur. The couple realized it was the signs of a stroke, ...
