WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas pipelines, advancing the Trump administration’s goal of accelerating the construction of new ...
WHEELING — A Wheeling man has been indicted for murder by an Ohio County grand jury, Ohio County Prosecutor Shawn Turak announced Tuesday, one of 21 people named in 20 grand jury indictments. Dwayne Herring, 54, was also indicted on charges of attempted first degree murder and attempted ...
CHARLESTON —With the 2026 legislative session gaveling in at noon today, one of the chairs of a major West Virginia Senate committee is stepping aside, accusing leadership of political pressure. State Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman, R-Ohio, resigned Tuesday as chairwoman of the Senate Health and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared ready to deal another setback to transgender people and uphold state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court’s conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender ...
BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 10:57 p.m. Sunday, a caller from an address on Crescent-Barton Road in St. Clairsville reported hearing noises on her roof. A sergeant responded. The officer found tree branches on the roof at multiple points as well as “a wayward opossum” in ...
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted and former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, his Democratic challenger in the November election, have greatly differing opinions on President Donald Trump’s decisions in Venezuela and interest in acquiring Greenland. Trump, a Republican, authorized the Jan. 3 capture of ...