WHEELING – Democrat Karen Shuler Stakem will represent District 5 in the West Virginia House of Delegates starting in 2027. Stakem defeated Republican Beth Hinebaugh in Tuesday’s general election. She will succeed Delegate Shawn Fluharty, D-Ohio, who instead sought a state senate ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – The fate of Andrew Isaac Griffin is now in the hands of the jury. After seven days of hearing from Belmont County Assistant Prosecutors Joe Vavra and Christopher Kinsler and Griffin’s attorney Samuel H. Shamansky, both sides provided their closing statements on ...
STEUBENVILLE — There will be no change at the top of Jefferson County government after Commissioner Eric Timmons was re-elected to his seat Tuesday. A 50-year-old Republican from Steubenville, Timmons defeated Democratic challenger Brent Nemeth, according to unofficial results from the ...
CHARLESTON — Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican and West Virginia's senior member of the congressional delegation, will return to the U.S. Senate next year to begin serving her third six-year term on Capitol Hill. WV MetroNews, the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ called the election ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Sen. Sherrod Brown defeated Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio on Tuesday, flipping a seat that was crucial to Democrats' strategy to retake the chamber and providing a ray of hope for the party's longer-term prospects in a former swing state that had turned ...
U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli beat his Democratic challenger in a successful bid for reelection. Rulli, R-Salem, defeated Democrat Elizabeth Kirtley of New Philadelphia 59% to 41% in the 6th Congressional District race, according to incomplete and unofficial results. Rulli said of the relative closeness of his race: “It definitely was not a red year so we’re happy with the win. I’m thrilled with it. It’s an honor of a lifetime to serve.” With Rulli about to be in the minority party, he said: “We’ll deal with that. We’ll sharpen our pencils and get to work. The opposition ...
