BARNESVILLE — Tickets are currently on sale for Captina Conservancy District’s annual Duck Dash race. Patrons can adopt a duck for your chance at a cash prize: $500 for first place, $250 for second place, $150 for third and fourth places, and even $50 for last place. Tickets are $10 each or three tickets for $25.
HOUSTON — (AP) — For a brief moment in 2012, it seemed like a national stalemate over guns was breaking. Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old gunman, had forced his way into a Connecticut elementary school and massacred 26 people, mostly children, with an AR-15-style rifle. Flags flew at half-staff. A sporting goods chain suspended sales of similar weapons. And longtime gun-rights supporters from both parties in Congress said they were willing to consider new legislation. The issue was complex, then-President Barack Obama said, but everyone was obligated to try.
After adding over 699,000 new cases throughout the last week, the U.S. now has more than 82.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 990,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a steady rate. In the past week, there were an average […]
BROOKE COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) — Authorities in Brooke County are asking the public for help in finding a missing woman. Georgeanne McGraw, 54, was last seen around 4:30 a.m. Saturday in the Washington Pike area of Wellsburg. She was wearing black leggings, a gray sweatshirt and blue and white...
WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) — Although the skies were gloomy and rainy, the racers at Saturday’s Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend were ready to go!. Activities included many different races and walks: 5K run and walk, half marathon run and walk, Ogden Fun Run and the Tiny Tot Trot.
The Belmont County Historical Society will host a Rose Tea at 2 p.m. on June 18 at the Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum in Barnesville. During the tea, the museum will be presented with the 1907 wedding gown of Margaret Schumacher Riesbeck, by her granddaughter Ann Riesbeck DiClemente. The newly acquired gown, plus other wedding gowns currently in the museum’s collection, will be on.
There is certainly not going to be anything easy for the Southeast Missouri State baseball club to achieve today, as it battles Ohio Valley Conference regular-season champion, Belmont, for the OVC Tournament championship (12 p.m., ESPN+). However, the day overall has to be easier to navigate than Friday was. The...
WHEELING—The fields are set and, as the sun rises over the Ohio Valley on Saturday morning, throngs of runners will take their marks to rekindle a valley tradition—which has a few new wrinkles to go with it. The Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend presented by WVU Medicine kicks off...