The Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce will help to ring in the Christmas season with two special events.

There have been three flu-related deaths reported in the area recently. All were women.

Local law enforcement officers and U.S. marshals continued to search early today for a Follansbee man who has been missing since he failed to appear for his sentencing in federal court last week.

Brooke County Health Department Director Karen McClain confirmed Wednesday that a resident died from complications to influenza.

Employees at the Smithsonian Institute have determined the bones found in a wall at Aspen Manor belonged to animals, said the Brooke County Sheriff's Department.

Remains found in a 100-year-old Wellsburg mansion have been identified as farm animals.

Three local police departments are receiving high praise after being awarded AAA Platinum Awards from AAA East Central, a nonprofit organization that provided highway safety programs across the state of West Virginia.

"To Grandmother's house we go," I shout. There have been flurries of snow since early Wednesday morning that have drifted to the hollows and fence cords near Panther Run and had given the country a sketchy unfinished look, but on Thanksgiving Day, the fields and roads were covered with a couple inches of snow in Brooke County.

Chopped-up bones found hidden in a wall of a 19th century West Virginia mansion have been sent to the Smithsonian Museum for analysis.

Posted: 12:46 am PST November 11, 2009 Updated: 8:17 am PST November 11, 2009 WELLSBURG, W.Va. -- A historic Brooke County, W. Va., mansion is at the center of a police and paranormal investigation after skeletal remains were found hidden behind a brick wall.

Authorities are examining hacked-up bones found hidden in a wall of a 19th century mansion in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle.

The Brooke County Public Library and Brooke County Visitors Center will hold a Veterans Day program at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wellsburg Christian Church at 10th and Charles streets.

Jo-Ellen Goodall, principal of Colliers Primary School, has announced Colliers Primary School will hold an open house from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov.

A Brooke County grand jury on Monday indicted 25 area residents, including more than a dozen accused of illegal drug activity.

Area residents and business representatives got a glimpse of what the top of West Virginia has to offer as part of the annual Top of West Virginia Showcase, held Tuesday at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.

Seniors attending the Weirton Senior Center on Thursday received information regarding President Barack Obama's agenda for changes on health care reform.

Brooke County health officials and school nurses teamed Wednesday evening to provide vaccinations for the H1N1 virus to many Brooke County children.

On Saturday and Sunday the Brooke County Animal Welfare League of Wellsburg is sponsoring the RASCAL Unit, a low-cost mobile spay and neuter program at the Jefferson County Airpark in Wintersville.

The application for $4 million in state funds for an addition to Brooke High School, announcement of flu vaccinations for Brooke County children this week, and resignation of the countys assistant superintendent of schools were among matters before the countys school board Monday.

A Brooke High School senior with numerous local honors to his credit can add a national title to his list of accomplishments.