Derek Redd

Lydia Chiazza one day received a message from a relative. In it was a real estate listing for Hughes Gift Gallery, which was up for sale. “Ha ha, let’s open a store,” the message read. Yet Chiazza didn’t consider it a laughing matter. She considered it a new opportunity. “I sent it to my husband, […]

The memory of an April phone call still gives goosebumps to the nieces and nephews of George Brozovich. When they talk about it now, their skin still tingles. They always hoped that, one day, Brozovich – a World War II prisoner subjected to the Bataan Death March through the Philippines, who died in a prison […]

BETHLEHEM — Sam Coleman knows just how much the support of others can mean for someone battling cancer. Coleman has been cancer-free for 15 years after being treated for kidney cancer. During that fight, she said the help she received from her family couldn’t be put into words. “My cousin came and stayed with me […]

WHEELING — A new training mannequin will give Wheeling firefighters a more realistic way to prepare for emergencies without putting people at risk. WVU Medicine donated the 100-pound mannequin to the Wheeling Fire Department, with officials from both organizations gathering Wednesday at the department’s headquarters to show off the new training tool. WVU Medicine had […]

Laughlin Chapel summer campers got to float among butterflies, buzz with bees and even more during a visit Thursday afternoon to the Seeing Hand Association’s Edelman Garden on Wheeling Island. The children made that visit as part of Laughlin Chapel’s six-week summer camp, and Program Coordinator Judi Saunders said it was a good way for […]

A Moundsville car dealer who is alleged to have partnered with former Marshall County Assessor Eric Buzzard — in a scheme that led Buzzard to plead guilty to felony embezzlement and conspiracy charges — was indicted on 14 felony charges himself this week. James Robert Meade II was indicted by a Marshall County grand jury […]

Nothing was going to rain on the City of Wheeling’s fireworks show Saturday night at Heritage Port. Not even the actual rain. While the storms that blew through the Ohio Valley on Saturday kept many at home, hundreds of hardy souls braved the raindrops to sit along the Ohio River in downtown Wheeling and enjoy […]

The United States Department of Homeland Security conducted an investigation Thursday in Ohio County, Ohio County Sheriff Nelson Croft said. Photographs on social media showed an Ohio County Sheriff’s deputy and several unmarked cars at the El Paso restaurant at The Highlands in Triadelphia. Croft said his information was limited, but he could confirm that […]

The former principal of Wheeling Middle School was charged with one count of child abuse Monday in connection with an alleged altercation he had with a student while he still led the school. Richard L. McCardle, 61, turned himself in to Wheeling Police on the felony count, according to a Wheeling Police Department release, and […]

WHEELING – There is plenty of excitement at WVU Medicine surrounding the upcoming WVU Cancer Institute St. Joseph Regional Cancer Complex. Officials said Monday afternoon that dirt would start moving at the complex’s future site, the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus, later this month. WVU Medicine officials wanted to share that excitement with community […]