Ohio County News

In an effort to curb the spread of germs among Ohio County Schools students and bus drivers, hand sanitizer dispensers have been installed on all the district's regular run school buses.

The space at The Highlands formerly occupied by the now bankrupt Crone's Clothiers will have a new tenant for now.

Renovation plans for the Capitol Theater call for removing the building's fire escape by Dec.1. And Dennis Magruder and Frank O'Brien believe visitors to the venue will remain safe while new stairs are being built.

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

When Janice Raheem asked City Manager Robert Herron about the best way to contact him, he told her all she needs to do is call or stop by his office.

City voters may someday decide if police Chief Robert Matheny must continue placing two officers in each patrol cruiser.

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.

After Leonard Braynen serves 10 years in a West Virginia prison, he may be deported from the United States.

A swine, or H1N1, flu vaccination clinic for children with high-risk medical conditions is slated 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m. Wednesday at the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department.

A Sheriff Deputy's pistol is on the streets of the Ohio Valley. It's the second weapon that has gone missing in the last few months from a law enforcement agency in the county.

Alaina Bell took a deep breath and held it Thursday, just like her grandma Sandra Hall told her to.

The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 38 now has the signatures of those seeking an election on Wheeling's two-officer per cruiser ordinance, thanks to a ruling by Ohio County Circuit Judge Arthur Recht.

Efforts to fully restore the Capitol Theatre got a $200,000 boost Monday, thanks to U.S. Sen.

Ohio County Circuit Judge Arthur Recht will hear a motion to quash or modify a subpoena in the case involving the city of Wheeling, petitioner George Jones and the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 38 at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in his courtroom on the fifth floor of the City County Building, 1500 Chapline St., Wheeling.

The Ohio County Development Authority has another six months to buy back a piece of The Highlands from the state of West Virginia.

The West Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Ricky Booth's 80-year prison sentence for robbing an elderly woman near Uncle Pete's Restaurant on Main Street more than two years ago.

Five years after a concrete wall collapsed into Woodsdale's Elm Run as a result of flooding associated with Hurricane Ivan in 2004, crews are working to replace the structure.

The health department will hold an H1N1 flu shot clinic for students of Linsly, St.

Teachers are always quizzing their students to improve their education, but on Monday pupils were posed a different question: Nasal or injection? That was the question asked of more than 600 students who received the swine, or H1N1, flu vaccine during a mass clinic at Triadelphia Middle School.

A vision came to fruition Friday with the official dedication of the Tunnel Ridge Silo Bypass of the Wheeling Heritage Trail.