Volunteers joined engineers and officials Tuesday morning to manually turn the historic Harmar Bridge, allowing inspectors to closely examine its aging mechanical systems as part of an ongoing restoration effort. The turning of span 4 – the bridge’s swing span – marked a key moment ...
PARKERSBURG — Barbara Cupp was either a woman scorned who fatally shot Matthew Bills for cheating on her or a woman in a life-and-death struggle that ended with Bills’ death, attorneys argued at the start of her murder trial Tuesday. A six-man, eight-woman jury was seated in the courtroom ...
Nearly 70 years since its premiere in 1957, the film “Battle Hymn” will return to the big screen at Peoples Bank Theatre at 2 p.m. Sunday. The theatre will host the event as part of the statewide initiative, Ohio Goes to the Movies. From February to October, the initiative encourages the ...
A Marietta College alumna returns to the campus tonight for a lecture on fraternization among soldiers during the Civil War. Lauren Thompson will present “Friendly Enemies: Soldier Fraternization Throughout the American Civil War” at 7 p.m. today in the McDonough Auditorium. The lecture ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Travel disruptions deepened Tuesday as senators raced to clinch an emerging proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including airport workers going without pay, but excluding immigration enforcement and deportation operations that ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the United States was in talks with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more U.S. Marines ...