CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.’s Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva, about 50 miles (80 ...
BRIDGEPORT — Close to 1,000 members of the Bridgeport Exempted Village School District community became part of a new era Nov. 12, when all current students, faculty and staff were invited to sign one of the exposed steel beams to be installed in the multipurpose facility to be dubbed “the ...
BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 10:19 p.m. Tuesday, an officer on a traffic stop on Barnesville-Bethesda Road in Bethesda reported that a license plate was not found in the system. A warning was issued for driving with no headlights. At 9:52 p.m. Tuesday, an officer on a traffic ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over — on paper, at least. But the American public isn’t done with it yet: Getting everything back up and running doesn’t happen all at once. The disruption of the closure, clocking in at 43 days, varied in its impact. ...
According to Martins Ferry Schools Superintendent Jim Fogle, the person accused of making the online threat to the Belmont County JVS and Martins Ferry Schools is in custody, and the lockdown has been lifted. Original story Martins Ferry Schools and the Belmont County JVS are both on a "soft ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — After the recent suicide of a St. Clairsville-Richland City School District student, parents showed up in droves to Wednesday morning’s school board meeting to discuss ways to keep a tragedy like that from happening again. The meeting, held at 7 a.m. instead of the usual ...