WHEELING — The combined weight of a dump truck and an excavator occupying the Washington Avenue Bridge when it collapsed Wednesday did exceed the span’s 5-ton weight limit, a state official said Thursday. Brian Kucish, director at West Virginia Division of Highways District 6, met with ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey and his legal team are getting ready to head to Washington D.C. to defend the state’s law aimed at keeping transgender girls and women from competing with biological girls and women in public school and college athletics before the ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Commission thanked a local company for its recent $3,000 donation to the county animal shelter, noting such contributions help keep the facility running. President J.P. Dutton said the Ohio Motor Group donated $3,000 to the shelter. He thanked the ...
WHEELING — Wheeling Police converged on an area in South Wheeling after human remains were found on the site. Wheeling Police Maj. Josh Sanders, commander of the department’s investigations bureau, said that 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, police were called to the corner of 42nd and Wood streets. ...
Four people, two from Ohio and two from West Virginia, were arrested last week on drug charges and approximately 120 grams of alleged methamphetamine was seized during the arrest, according to the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office. According to a BCSO press release, Jan. 2, detectives with ...
BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 11:38 a.m. Monday, a motorist waved down a deputy on National Road in St. Clairsville near St. Clair Mini Storage for a car vs. deer accident. The air bag was deployed, and the vehicle sustained front-end damage. The Ohio State Highway Patrol was ...