Weirton Dailytimes

Yost wins state Senate nomination

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:31:52 EDT

Democrats in Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties on Tuesday chose current Delegate Jack Yost as their candidate to take the 1st District state Senate seat in 2008.

Yost, D-Brooke, defeated Wheeling attorney Shane Mallett with a total of 10,657 votes for 53 percent of the vote. Mallett received 9,282 votes for 47 percent of the vote. Yost won big in Brooke and Hancock counties but lost i

Greathouse wins Hancock commission race

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:32:19 EDT

NEW CUMBERLAND - Danny Greathouse said he was thankful that Hancock County residents voted in his favor during Tuesday night's primary election.

'I thank God, I really do," Greathouse said. 'I thank the citizens of Hancock County. It's been an honor to serve and I enjoy the privilege very much."

Greathouse won the nod to serve another term as Hancock County commissioner aft

Clinton trounces Obama in West Virginia

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:22:24 EDT

CHARLESTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.

"The White House is won in the swing states. And I am winning the swing states," Clinton told cheering supporters at

New faces in fall House races

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:41:56 EDT

There will be both new and returning faces in local House of Delegates races this November. In House District 1, incumbent Delegate Randy Swartzmiller, D-Hancock, was victorious Tuesday. But the district's second nomination went to political newcomer Benton Manypenny, who defeated former Delegate Tamara Pettit, D-Hancock. SwartZmiller received 5,038 votes; Manypenny, 3,449; and Pettit, 2,510, un

Tompos to run against White in fall

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:53:27 EDT

NEW CUMBERLAND - By more than 1,800 votes, the voters of Hancock County selected resident Tom Tompos to face off against incumbent sheriff Mike White in the November general election.

"I'm very happy that the citizens of Hancock County are going to give me the chance to become their next sheriff in November," Tompos said.

Preliminary and unofficial results showed Tompos wit