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Traffic weathers bridge efforts
PARKERSBURG - While the closing of Memorial Bridge made for a longer commute for some motorists Monday morning, officials said it had little impact on area drivers overall. Parkersburg police Chief Joe Martin said while traffic was a bit heavier on some downtown streets Monday morning, there were no issues. "Everything is smooth sailing," he said. "We've seen no obvious ...
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Catholics Crusaders Double-up Gilmer
DAVISVILLE - A curse is beginning to evolve at Marshall Field for Gilmer County baseball. For the second straight year in the regional semifinals, Parkersburg Catholic received an impressive outing from its starting pitching and defeated the second-ranked Titans 4-2. In the past two years against PCHS at this stage of the postseason, Gilmer County has managed just two ...
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United earnings still on the rise
PARKERSBURG- United Bank had another successful year in 2012 as it continued to increase earnings to shareholders, the chairman and CEO told shareholders Monday. United Bankshares Inc. officials, at the annual meeting of shareholders Monday at the Blennerhassett Hotel, said the company was able to continue to thrive in the economic conditions brought on by the Great Recession of 2008. "We ...
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Mincks sentenced for thefts from Marietta City Schools
MARIETTA - A former Marietta City Schools employee who stole more than $145,000 from the district has three years to pay back the money. The time frame was established Monday in Washington County Common Pleas Court as Barbara Mincks, the district's former assistant treasurer, was sentenced for the crime, a third-degree felony count of theft in office. "We'd ask that the court ...
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Matheny Motors to hold ribbon-cutting ceremony
PARKERSBURG- Matheny Motors will be showing the public its new showroom Saturday at its dealership at Third and Ann streets in Parkersburg. A ribbon cutting will be held at noon Saturday at Matheny's new GM Showroom and Service Center. Work was completed on the facility in late December/early January, but dealership officials wanted to wait for the warm weather to settle in before having an ...
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Mom of missing W.Va. girl wont be relocated
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. -- The mother of a missing West Virginia girl can remain in Wheeling to serve the remainder of her supervised release for welfare ...
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Body found in Kanawha County home
At around 1:45 p.m. Monday, Metro 911 received a call from a male who said he saw a deceased man’s body in a mobile home on Darlington Lane in Elkview. The man caller noticed the body while peering through a ...
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Purchase of empty East End building could be on track
The long-vacant building at 1601 Washington St. E., at the intersection with Elizabeth Street, could finally be revitalized now that its owners are emerging from ...
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Dunbar council members looking ahead to city election
Dunbar city council members are looking ahead to the city's election on June 4, when city residents will elect a new mayor. Early this year, Mayor Jack Yeager announced he would not run for re-election, which opens the mayoral seat for either the city's public works director, Democrat Terry Greenlee, or Republican Michael Hall. The city clerk's position also will be ...
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Virginia Street Oakridge Drive on paving list
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than a half-mile of Virginia Street through downtown Charleston will get a fresh coat of blacktop this summer as part of the city's annual street paving program, which City Council members approved Monday ...
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St. Albans council gives final approval to water sewer refinancing
The St. Albans city council voted to take advantage of low interest rates and refinance more than $9 million of bonds to upgrade water and sewer ...
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Putnam school board approves $112.5 million budget
WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Members of the Putnam County Board of Education approved a $112.5 million budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year on Monday night. The budget is about $2 million more than last year, according to treasurer Chris Campbell, and puts an emphasis on ...
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City enacts half-cent sales tax
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- With just one dissenting vote Monday, City Council members approved a half-cent-per-dollar tax on retail sales in the city of ...
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DEVELOPING Traffic stopped due to double tractor-trailer crash
Belmont County . At around 7 p.m. near exit 209, a tractor-trailer parked on the berm was rear-ended by another tractor-trailer. A non-hazardous material was spilled all over the roadway. Traffic is currently being detoured off exit 208 to U.S. 40. The Ohio State Highway Patrol is on the scene investigating. No word on any injuries. We do have a NEWS9 crew headed to the scene. Stick with NEWS9 ...
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Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb killing 37
A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...
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Mercer County jury finds doctor
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Mercer County jury last week found a doctor responsible for the death of a McDowell County man and awarded his family $1 million. Jurors awarded the son of Gary Rakes, 55, of Welch, who died at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in 2010, $500,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages. Jurors found that Dr. Delilah Stephens acted with willful, ...
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One of three suspects in Mingo shooting appears in court
JEFFERSON COUNTY , OHIOOne of the suspects involved in the Mingo Junction shooting that happened on May 16 appeared in court today.Twenty-year-old Drake Burton was arrested on May 17 and was taken to ...
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NEWS9 Special Assignment Gone But Not Forgotten
Belmont County was the Bellaire Gas Light and Coke Works."They organized a company that would take coal and would burn the coal and produce gas that could be used in gas lamps throughout the city," said Dan Frizzi, a local history enthusiast.The company was opened in 1873 and charted until 1914. The site would be leveled years later and eventually re-purposed by the city of ...
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Potomac State lacks controls lawmakers told
Legislative auditors said Monday that the Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department had agreed to reimburse its state account for more than $10,000 in payments for items that either couldn't be documented or weren't supposed to be paid from the state ...
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Power plant sale good for consumers FirstEnergy says
The $1.1 billion cost of selling a coal-fired power plant from one FirstEnergy subsidiary to another is "a reasonable price for protection" against the more expensive option of buying electricity on the spot market to meet demand in West Virginia, a utility executive said ...
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Alzheimers Association executives to be honored
Jane Marks (left) has been executive director of the West Virginia chapter of the Alzheimer's Association since 2001. Nancy Cipoletti (right) is former executive director of the state Alzheimer's ...
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White says he wants House speakers job
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- House Finance Chairman Harry Keith White, D-Mingo, in announcing his candidacy for House of Delegates speaker Monday, said he has enough votes to win both the party caucus and floor ...
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Charleston doctor is W.Va.s top prescriber of hydrocodone
A Charleston neurologist who prescribed hydrocodone more than any other doctor in the state in 2010 had been disciplined twice before by the West Virginia Board of ...
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WVU baseball team near Oklahoma tornado site
KFOR-TV News 4 News footage of an F4 tornado that struck Monday afternoon in Moore, Okla., about 11 miles from where the West Virginia baseball is staying in preparation for the Big 12 ...
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Neighbors survey extensive damage to homes after Scio explosion
Harrison County house explosion in Scio that knocked people out of their chairs and shook nearby homes.Cracked frames, blown out windows with glass everywhere, and pieces of dry wall are the reality for neighbors by 422 West Main St. after it exploded Sunday. Investigators with the State Fire Marshal's Office revisited the scene to pick through the debris to see what started the explosion ...
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