West Liberty News

New retail outlet reports "better than expected" holiday sales. It was a banner December for retailers and restaurants at the Highlands in Ohio County.

Bernie D. Metz pleaded guilty this morning to allegations she stole millions of dollars from a Wheeling credit union, but members of her family will not face charges.

West Liberty and Concord universities are each getting $100,000 grants from the state's Research Trust Fund.

Money for research at local colleges is on its way to the Ohio Valley. Wheeling Jesuit University's National Technology Transfer Center will receive $5 million to continue its HEALTHeWV program - an effort to develop and store electronic medical records for nonprofit clinics in West Virginia, U.S. Sen.

West Liberty and Concord universities are each getting $100,000 grants from the state's Research Trust Fund.

Members of Church Women United met Dec. 4 for their annual Christmas luncheon in the fellowship hall of the Oakland Presbyterian Church on Wylie Road in Weirton.

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Ron Cantley had his Thanksgiving plans all laid out. "What I planned to do was run until I couldn't run anymore, eat till I can't eat anymore and sleep till I can't sleep anymore," Cantley said Thursday morning after competing in the 33rd annual YMCA Thanksgiving Day Run in Beckley.

Coach Jim Crutchfielda TMs Hilltoppers got their pursuit of an unprecedented fifth straight NCAA Division II national scoring title off to a flying start here Tuesday night by running away to a 113-72 victory at Tiffin University.

Ohio County's public health officials are preparing to vaccinate a local university's students against the swine flu.

It happened on Short Creek Road in Ohio County, just past the intersection with G C & P Road.

Brooke County Schools has a new assistant superintendent, following the county school board's approval Monday of Kathy Kidder-Wilkerson for the position.

It took the strength of two sheriff's deputies to keep a middle schooler still enough to receive a shot of the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine at a recent clinic.

West Liberty makes their first NCAA football playoff appearance, and the school's first post-season trip since 1971, as the top seed in Super Region I. The WVIAC champion Toppers, who are one of 24 schools selected by the NCAA Division II Football Committee for the championship, will host either fourth-seeded East Stroudsburg or fifth-seeded ...

West Virginia Conference Champion West Liberty finished the regular season with 10 straight victories after a 64-42 rout of Concord at Russek Field.

Several new swine, or H1N1, flu clinics are in the works, including one for children 6-35 months old today at the Ohio Valley Mall in St.

No.12 West Liberty cruised to a ninth straight victory with a 48-21 win over Seton Hill at Russek Field, clinching the West Virginia Conference title outright for the first time since 1971.

For the fourth time this season, West Liberty quarterback Zach Amedro has been named the West Virginia Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

Thank you. Thank you for that very warm welcome. I have to confess to all of you I am really amazed by how this afternoon has come together.