Rain on Thursday morning around the Ohio Valley led to high creek levels and water on the road along 29th Street in Wheeling. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties in West Virginia and Belmont County in Ohio until 11:15 a.m. Thursday. A flood watch will […]
CHARLESTON – A former teacher and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts related to grooming and sexual activity with a minor. Elliott Pritt, 36, of Oak Hill, is charged with sexual exploitation of a child, coercion and enticement of a child, and […]
WHEELING — Bingo players will have an opportunity to have fun, support a local organization and possibly win a basket of prizes or a $500 coverall Saturday. Crittenton Services will host its annual bingo and basket raffle beginning at noon Saturday at St. Vincent dePaul Church in Elm Grove. Doors open at 11 a.m. Packets […]
WHEELING — Weekends run like clockwork in the fall. Saturdays are for college football, Sundays are for the pros and Fridays are for the kind of football that holds a special place of honor in communities across the Ohio Valley — the kind of football we present to you today in The Intelligencer and News-Register’s […]
WHEELING — All remaining charges in the criminal case involving controversial, anonymous mailers sent to the public ahead of Wheeling’s 2024 municipal election have been dismissed. Anand Arvind Patel, 42, of Wheeling, had been scheduled for a jury trial later this month on two counts of failure to include public notice for communication by independent […]
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has spent her recess crisscrossing West Virginia, looking at the progress that has been made in many of its corners. The West Virginia Republican was at the Mitchell Power Plant in Marshall County on Tuesday and made a stop in Morgantown on Wednesday to witness the ribbon cutting for West […]
MOUNDSVILLE — The Marshall County Family Resource Network celebrated its 30th anniversary Wednesday with an open house at its office at 1501 Second St. Lisa Zukoff, one of the FRN’s founding board members, said the agency helps connect residents with agencies that provide resources including food, transportation, clothing, emergency housing, utility assistance, victim assistance, training […]
BRIDGEPORT — The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley awarded a total of $139,015 to 17 local organizations Wednesday morning through its River Valley Health Fund. The awards were announced during a banquet at Bridgeport Exempted Village School District’s recently opened “The Bridge” facility. The River Valley Health Fund provides grants to organizations working to […]
WHEELING – West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey has intervened on behalf of the state in a civil lawsuit filed by a group of Warwood residents against the Silicon Foundation in response to constitutional questions raised by the plaintiffs. Last month, a civil complaint was filed in Ohio County Circuit Court in an attempt to […]
WHEELING — Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief organization, will bring a free medical outreach clinic to Wheeling Aug. 21-23 in partnership with Newbridge Church. The clinic will provide free medical, dental and vision care to community members regardless of insurance status or ability to show identification. “Samaritan’s Purse responded to the historic flooding that […]