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Flight 93 Memorial visitors revisit moments from 9/11

September 11, 2001 is a day that many Americans will never forget. Thoughts of where people were, what they saw and how they felt that day remain in their minds 25 years later. At the Flight 93 National Memorial Park, visitors carry those memories with them as they honor the 40 passengers and ...

DeFelice talks economic development at meet-and-greet

LANSING — Belmont County Republican commissioner candidate Dominic DeFelice held a meet-the-candidate event Thursday. Family, friends and potential voters spent Thursday evening at Vino di Piccin Winery to meet DeFelice and hear what he stands for ahead of the November ...

Therapist reflects on 25 years since 9/11

WHEELING — It has been 25 years since Sheli Bernstein-Goff, a Wheeling-based clinical therapist who specializes in critical stress management, helped first responders in New York City just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bernstein-Goff was a volunteer with Green Cross, a ...

Highway Patrol: Juvenile killed in Monroe County Crash

WOODSFIELD -- A juvenile was killed and three others were injured Tuesday evening in a single-vehicle crash in Monroe County that authorities say may have involved alcohol or drug impairment. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the crash occurred at about 5:15 p.m. on Township Road 350, also known as Wolf Pen Road, in Center Township. According to the patrol, Britney N. Timberman, 39, of Woodsfield was driving a 2006 Honda Accord southbound when she failed to maintain control. The vehicle traveled off the left side of the road, struck an embankment and overturned. A juvenile passenger ...

Locals remember Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

WHEELING — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks via airliners on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — and many Ohio Valley residents are likely remembering what they were doing at that moment and how it impacted them then and still today. Bridgeport resident Larry Barnes, commander of American Legion Post 159, said on 9/11 he was working for a company, Shawn, Stone & Webster, that did maintenance on nuclear power plants on the East Coast. He was working at a plant just 30 ...