WILLIAMSTOWN — Last Friday night against Marietta, the Williamstown Yellowjackets scored a pair of touchdowns in the first two minutes of the game and never looked back as they rolled to a 42-7 win over the Tigers. Friday night on homecoming night in Williamstown it took the ‘Jackets a ...
PARKERSBURG – Since the WVSSAC High School State Golf Tournament isn’t played on paper, St. Marys is seeking to give Wirt County a run for its money when the Class A field is scheduled to begin the two-day trek Wednesday and Thursday in Wheeling. Behind the two freshmen Jude Walker and ...
Churchill said that "wars are not won by evacuations," and sometimes, he might have added, they are simply embarrassing. The U.S. hastily flew its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford in the U.K. for fear of a potential Iranian drone attack, the latest in a series of successful Iranian operations to crimp U.S. bases, this time more than 2,000 miles away. The Trump administration has found -- by opening a channel to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and blockading Iran -- a strategy to pressure Iran that may yet produce a favorable outcome to the war. Still, the conflict has exposed glaring ...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer, he argued, lives in fear of the far-left wing of his party. Thune pointed to Democrats blocking debate on military funding and a defense authorization bill, as well as resistance around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He also recalled the backlash Schumer faced after voting to reopen the government during an earlier shutdown fight. In Thune's telling, Schumer learned the price of defying his party's loudest faction and has deferred to it ever ...
Tuesday, Oct. 13 High school volleyball: Ravenswood/Huntington St. Joe at Wahama, 6 p.m.; Gilmer County at Buckhannon-Upshur, 6 p.m.; St. Marys at Doddridge County, 6 p.m.; OVACs, TBD; Eastern at Waterford; George Washington at Parkersburg South, 5:30 p.m. High school golf: WVSSAC State Championship at Oglebay Park (Jones) High school girls soccer: Parkersburg at Wheeling Park, 6 p.m.; Parkersburg South at Williamstown, 6:30/7 p.m.; Warren at West Muskingum, 7:30 p.m. High school boys soccer: Parkersburg at Marietta, 5:30 p.m.
ALLIANCE, Ohio — Marietta College's upset bid fell short at the University of Mount Union as the Pioneers lost, 27-21, Saturday afternoon. The loss drops Marietta to 3-2 overall and 2-2 in the Ohio Athletic Conference. Mount Union is 3-2 overall and 3-1 in the OAC. "I am extremely proud ...
