Craig Howell On Friday, the nation remembered the day – 25 years ago – when terrorists backed by al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airliners, leading to the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history. Two of the hijacked planes would be crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade ...
Follansbee Council to hold special meeting FOLLANSBEE – Follansbee Council will meet in special session at 5:45 p.m., Monday, in council chambers to discuss the purchase of the football field located behind the Bluewave Center. Second Saturday canceled WEIRTON – The planned Second Saturday event scheduled for this weekend has been canceled in anticipation of weather. Officials with the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau are working with the bands and vendors to see if it can be rescheduled for a later date. rant funding available for Appalachian Ohio ...
Twenty-five years ago today, what many consider to be the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history took place as a series of four coordinated strikes by al-Qaida, using commercial airliners, resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damage to the ...
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 ...
WEIRTON — With the city's utilities director set to retire next month, the Weirton Sanitary Department took action Thursday to set a continuation of managerial oversight, naming Charles Smith as its interim director. Smith currently holds the position of assistant director for the sanitary ...
WEIRTON — The Weirton Area Water Board will begin advertising in the coming days as part of its search for a new water director. The Water Board, during its meeting Thursday, discussed several aspects of the search, being organized as a result of the upcoming retirement of Utilities ...
