Breaking News

Fired Up: Democratic candidates barnstorm West Virginia ahead of November

CHARLESTON – What started in 2025 as a kitchen table tour morphed this year into a way of bringing Democratic candidates for Congress, the West Virginia Legislature and local offices to the people ahead of the November midterm election. The Democratic caucus in the House of Delegates ...

Hancock County Schools ready to meet Third Grade Success Act requirements

NEW CUMBERLAND — After preparing for the last few years, Hancock County Schools officials say they are ready to fully meet the requirements of the state's Third Grade Success Act. "We have been on a journey with House Bill 3035 for more than four years," explained Erica Sauer, director of ...

Trey Zambito named Brooke High School principal

WELLSBURG — Earlier this month, Trey Zambito was named interim head principal at Brooke High School. On Monday night, members of the Brooke County Board of Education voted to remove the interim from his title. In a 4-0 vote, board members approved Superintendent Jeffrey Crook's ...

Fleming has impact on young people

STEUBENVILLE — Chevy McGee has plans — big plans, the kind that involve graduating from high school, going to college, playing football and pursuing a degree. Those are lofty ambitions for a kid who, in his middle school years, didn't think it was in the cards for him. "I was doing some bad things in middle school," he said. "I wasn't paying attention, I was getting bad grades. I made some mistakes in my life, mistakes I regret still to this day, but I got past it … I see where I am now." Back then he would go to the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in his free time ...

Kamin Science Center kicks off 35th Anniversary with an addition

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's most visited museum — the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center — is marking its 35th anniversary with an addition to one of its most beloved experiences. The Miniature Railroad and Village has reopened with an exact replica of the Andrew Bayne Memorial ...

Wintersville woman killed in wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Pa.

A WIntersville woman died Sunday night in a wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Hanover Township. State police said Dawn R. D’Andrea was driving west in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Burgettstown exit shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she crashed head-on into another car. D’Andrea, ...