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Some Ohio Valley students organized and received donations to the Wheeling Hospital Comprehensive Breast Care Center. Those donations, Squishmellow dolls.  Led by school counselor, Natalie Manners, a group of 4th and 5th grade students from Bellaire Elementary donated over 60 squishmellow dolls to the Wheeling Hospital Comprehensive Breast Care Center. The dolls are expected to bring comfort to the patients as they receive care, travel home from…

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Ohio Valley students donate Squishmellows to Breast Care Center

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that an Ohio Sheriff must release records created by a Private company operating a county jail. The Court ruled 6-1 that the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office could not redirect requests for jail records to the private operators, but has a legal duty to obtain the records and fulfill public records requests. Regardless of whether the documents are in the possession of the public office or the private operator, the r…

Ohio Sheriff must release records created by Private company operating county jail, court rules

Form Energy, in Weirton West Virginia, is already expanding after just opening its doors.  Form Energy announced the start of construction to expand Form Factory 1. Form Factory 1 is located on a 55-acre site where the Weirton Steel mill once stood.  The expansion will enable the company to scale up production, hire more employees, and deliver more breakthrough iron-air batteries to customers nationwide. The Form Energy team anticipates completi…

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New West Virginia factory already expanding, Will take over former Steel mill

Oglebay's Festival of Lights is not only back for another year, they are celebrating a milestone by making it their 40th anniversary.  The Festival of Lights will kick off on Thursday, November 7 with Light Up Night.  This year, visitors can look forward to a spectacular first: a dazzling drone show, set to light up the sky for two nights only - Thursday, November 7, and Saturday, November 9.  Santa Claus will join WesBanco Upper Ohio Valley Mar…

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Oglebay to celebrate 40 years of Festival of Lights with dazzling drone show from America's Got Talent Finalist

West Liberty University announced that they received a gift of $1.7 million to create the Gary E. West Aviation Center on campus and to permanently endow the Gary E. West Aviation Scholarship.  The gift was provided Flip West and the West family.  This donation is expected to expand educational opportunities in aviation and ensure that aspiring pilots and aviation professionals have access to the financial support they need to succeed. The Gary …

West Liberty gets $1.7M gift to establish the Gary E. West Aviation Center

WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) - West Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Steve Williams was in Wheeling this evening campaigning to a specific group of workers that he says are “the foundation of our state.”  He held a town hall in collaboration with the West Virginia Education Association and American Federation of Teachers at Independence Hall.  
HAPPENING NOW🇺🇸:WV Gubernatorial democratic candidate @SteveWilliamsWV is holding a town hall with the Wes…

West Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Williams speaks to local educators in Wheeling

(WTRF) - It doesn't take a meteorologist to know that it has been pretty chilly as of late. A persistent wind with a northerly bend continues to bring cooler than average conditions to the region. In fact, this chill expanded on Wednesday with much of the East Coast dealing with below average conditions. Some spots (our area included) experienced highs 10°- 20º below normal both Tuesday and Wednesday.  With that cold air locked in place, and som…

Freeze Warnings and Frost Advisories return to Ohio

WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) - After a pause in construction on the new Wheeling Fire Department Headquarters, the subcontractors have been working for the last few weeks to get a scope of how to get the project restarted.  The original general contractor - PCS’s &build – filed for bankruptcy back in March, passing on the project to the new general contractor - Great Lakes Contracting.  However, many of the same subs that are familiar with the project…

Subcontractors "pick up where they left off" on the new Wheeling Fire Department Headquarters

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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (WBOY) — The second planned auction for The Greenbrier Resort will reportedly not happen, as the Justice family announced Tuesday night it has repaid its debt to Beltway Capital, the owners of a loan for the resort. According to a statement from the Justice family, they have "completely satisfied" their obligations to Beltway Capital and have paid their debt "in full." The family emphasized its stance that it had mad…

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Justice family says debt is paid and the The Greenbrier will not be auctioned

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The former Buckhannon mayor charged with producing child pornography will remain in jail until his federal trial in Clarksburg later this year. During a detention hearing that concluded on Thursday, a federal magistrate judge ordered that David McCauley, 66 of Buckhannon, remain in U.S. Marshals Service custody until his trial, which is scheduled for Dec. 9.  
David McCauley McCauley was indicted on two counts of produ…

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Former Buckhannon mayor will remain in custody until federal child porn trial

OHIO COUNTY, (WTRF) - The insect that we've been warned about for at least a year….is here.The Spotted Lanternfly has arrived in the Ohio Valley. WVU Extension Agent Karen Cox has now seen three of the colorful bugs that can cause incredible damage, right here in Ohio County. The Spotted Lanternfly ruins crops of grapes, berries, nuts and tree fruits. And that's just the beginning of their reign of destruction. They then excrete the partially di…

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