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United’s Lindsay Diehl Green receives national, statewide honors

PARKERSBURG — A recently promoted vice president at United Bank Wealth Management and United Brokerage Services Inc. has been honored with prestigious national and statewide awards. Lindsay Diehl Green was named to the Bank Insurance & Securities Association’s Diversity, Equity and ...

Leffingwell new engineering, business dean at Washington State

A new dean of engineering and business has been named at Washington State Community College. Dan Leffingwell, a former Noble County school superintendent, has 35 years of experience in academic and administrative leadership. “I am so appreciative of the opportunity that has been afforded ...

Death toll from train derailment in Pakistan rises to 30, 90 others injured

By Asim Tanveer Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others as rescue operations completed by early evening, officials said. Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah, trapping many passengers, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho. Local television showed rescue teams extracting women, children and elderly passengers from damaged and overturned cars. Some of the injured were lying on the ground crying for ...

Peoples Bank Foundation and employees donate to food bank, rotary club

Employees at Peoples Bank and the Peoples Bank Foundation have made donations to the Greater Marietta Community Food Bank and to the Marietta Rotary Club totalling more than $8,800. The food bank received $3,856 from the Peoples Bank Jeans for Hunger program started in April 2020. ...

Job market cools, but US may avoid recession

WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market has cooled over the summer. But it's still strong enough to defy predictions that higher interest rates would tip the United States into recession. U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs last month, fewer than expected. But the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% in ...