Benwood News

A bridge that has stood for decades will soon be just a memory. The United States Coast Guard has plans to tear down the Bellaire Toll Bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood and Bellaire.

Finalists of Wheeling Island Idol Chosen for Week #4 Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 ; 09:48 PM Post Comment Updated Friday, June 12, 2009 ; 12:02 AM Twenty one finalists are chosen Thursday night for the final round of auditions.

Twenty young women from across West Virginia will arrive in Morgantown Saturday.

Frequency of public bus service on select routes will be reduced to every hour only between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. starting Monday, said Tom Hvizdos, executive director of the Ohio Valley Regional Transportation Authority.

A local community has it's hopes dashed after a business planning to locate there and bring hundreds of jobs has changed it's mind.

Benwood officials are looking into whether it was legal for the Ohio Valley Regional Transportation Authority board to decrease the frequency of bus service in their city.

Emergency crews were expected to resume their search today for a man who is believed to have drowned in the Ohio River at Moundsville on Monday.

Search and rescue spent most of Monday night looking for yet another body in the Ohio River.

A 27-year-old mother of two vanishes without a trace. It happened 35 years ago in Benwood.

It was on this week, 35 years ago, that an Ohio Valley woman disappeared without a trace.

Northern Marshall County residents served around the world in World War II, but they always knew what was going on at home.

A convicted sex offender is facing more charges after he allegedly gave a false address and telephone number to police.

If you plan in traveling Route 2 anytime soon you may want to consider another way.

Benwood police have arrested the man wanted in a Moundsville hammer assault that happened April 24.

Though closures could slow down travels to the workplace for residents in Benwood, W.Va., the finished project will cause more efficient coal transportation.

The addition of new public bus routes serving The Highlands, Glen Dale and Moundsville was opposed by some members of the Ohio Valley Regional Transportation Authority's board of directors.

The morning of April 28, 1924, Istvan Vargo was ill enough to consider not going to work at Wheeling Steel Corp.'s Benwood coal mine.

The Highlands and Moundsville are being added to Ohio Valley Regional Transportation Authority's destination roster.

Three Pittsburgh police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty on Saturday.

SCAFFIDI, Anthony J., 81, of Benwood, WV, died Sunday, March 29, 2009 in Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Glen Dale WV.