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Rosemary Ketchum was elected Tuesday to the City Council in Wheeling, West Virginia, becoming the state’s first out transgender elected official. In the nonpartisan election, Ketchum won 39.3 percent of the vote, beating Peggy Niebergall by just 15 votes, according to WTOV-TV. She will assume office July 1. “Running for office was never in the plan for me,” Ketchum, 26, said in an interview with NBC News. “I didn’t know what that would look like or how I would fit into that world.”

Saturday, September 29, 2018: RSBN reporters Liz Willis, Alyssa Ashe, Max Kleiber, Tom O'Neill and cameraman James Willis will be on hand as President Donald J. Trump holds a campaign style rally at Wesbanco Arena in Wheeling, WV.

Good folks in West Virginia and surrounding states, POTUS, Donald J. Trump begins an intense, all out political campaign rally schedule prior to the upcoming Mid-Term elections on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2018. In the next seven days, POTUS, Trump will hold political rallies in five states, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Minnesota & Kansas. More info and free tickets (2) can be obtained through the "Trump for President" website. Folks, the American Nation Republic and your freedoms are truly at stake in this most important critical path Mid-term election. This election will rank up there with the most critical,...

President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally in West Virginia on Saturday. The president will rally for a slate of Republican candidates in Wheeling, including the GOP Senate nominee Patrick Morrisey. Trump has remained very popular in West Virginia, where he has visited several times since taking office. He has intensified his efforts to help Republicans keep the Senate, campaigning in Nevada and Missouri in recent days....

WHEELING, W.Va. (WTRF) - President Trump is coming to WesBanco Arena in Wheeling on Saturday September 29th. The Donald J. Trump for President campaign has announced that The President is coming back to West Virginia for his second campaign rally for Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

Please stop, I silently beg the three drivers heading down the on ramp to Interstate 70 from Washington Avenue. I’m driving parallel to them at 55 mph with a line of traffic behind me. I have my turn signal on signifying that I’m getting off at the exit just west of that on ramp. I cannot slam on my brakes and stop on the highway to allow these drivers to merge into my lane. Yet they keep coming down the ramp toward me. Fear has crept into my throat and I cannot scream if I wanted to. Don’t they understand...

Wheeling, W. VA -- There's been a shooting at the federal courthouse in Wheeling, West Virginia. The U.S. Marshals Service says a man with an assault-type rifle fired 15 to 20 shots at the courthouse before security officers returned fire, critically injuring the man.

The U.S. Marshals Service says a man with an assault-type rifle fired 15 to 20 shots at the federal courthouse in Wheeling. W.Va., before security officers returned fire, critically wounding the man.

WHEELING -- A man who reportedly fired more than 20 shots into the Wheeling Federal Building has died, authorities said. The man has not yet been identified. A security guard at the Federal Building also received minor injuries during the shooting rampage, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. today. Police have not yet released a motive for the shooting.

A Philadelphia man told a jury today that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia priest who allegedly sexually abused him for years starting the late 1970s had said a colleague who is now a bishop in West Virginia also had sex with teenage boys. The 48-year-old witness, identified only as "John" in the 2005 report of the Philadelphia County grand jury, described a meeting one summer in high school where he spent summers at the Rev. Stanley Gana's 110-acre farm in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He said he was building a flagstone wall when a car pulled up driven by then-Rev. Michael J. Bransfield...

This a very interesting video of a 4 Wheeler that flips backwards, crashing on it's roof while trying to climb a rock. Good thing no one was hurt.

(all caps via orig source) DURING THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE 3 TOWERS IN ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OH USED TO BROADCAST THE SIGNAL FOR NEWS RADIO 1170-WWVA, WERE LITERALLY KNOCKED OVER BY THE STRONG WINDS AND CURRENTLY ARE ON THE GROUND, AND THE STATION IS OFF THE AIR. OUR CREWS ARE WORKING TO GET SOME TEMPORARY TOWERS IN PLACE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT UNTIL THEN…STARTING AT 6AM THURSDAY MORNING 8/5/10, ALL OF WWVA’S PROGRAMMING CAN BE HEARD ON AM 1400…WBBD, WHERE WE WILL BRING YOU FURTHER UPDATES.

Wheeling, WV -- In more than 2,000 cities across this great country, hundreds of thousands of people gathered to re-make history. Officials estimate more than 1,200 people packed Wheeling's Heritage Port Wednesday evening for this Tax Day Tea Party. Wheeling was one of many places around the Ohio Valley that held these events, which were aimed at protesting recent government borrowing and spending. At this event, several speakers addressed the large crowd at 6:00 on the same day Americans pay their federal income tax. I asked, "tell us why you're here today?" Wheeling resident David Kenamond said, "to stop all...

NBC Showcases Anti-War West Virginian Over One Critical of Media At a forum with President George W. Bush Wednesday at the Capitol Music Hall in Wheeling, West Virginia, Gayle Taylor, the wife of a member of the military recently returned from Iraq, was drowned out by a standing ovation when she told Bush: "It seems that our major media networks don't want to portray the good. They just want to focus-" Neither the CBS Evening News or NBC Nightly News found the criticism of the news media to be newsworthy. NBC's David Gregory instead decided to assert that "in a...

WASHINGTON, March 22, 2006 – As more time passes since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans must not forget the lessons of that fateful day - lessons that are being applied today in the global war on terror, President Bush said today in Wheeling, W.Va. "The job of those of us who have been entrusted to protect you and defend you is really to do so in such a way that you feel comfortable about going about your life. And it's fine that people forget the lessons (of Sept. 11), but one of my jobs is to constantly...

RUSH: All right, audio sound bite time. I have been talking about this the whole program, President Bush and his town meeting in Wheeling, West Virginia, yesterday. Gayle Taylor, who is the wife of a member of the military recently returned from Iraq stood up and said this to the president. TAYLOR: This is my husband who has returned from a 13-month tour in Tikrit, and he has brought back several DVDs full of wonderful footage of reconstruction, of medical things going on. And I ask you this from the bottom of my heart for a solution to this, because...

WHEELING — The Iraqi people ultimately must “determine their own fate,” and “as they stand up, we’ll stand down,” President Bush told an audience in downtown Wheeling Wednesday. A capacity crowd of more than 2,000 — including many military veterans and their families — turned out for Bush’s town hall forum on the War on Terror at the Capitol Music Hall.

Ohio Valley residents who would like to be part of President George W. Bush’s visit to Wheeling on Wednesday still have a chance to get tickets through the cooperative efforts of the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce and the Ogden Newspapers Inc. Chamber President Terry Sterling said Monday that 100 tickets are being made available to the general public at 10 a.m. today at the offices of the Ogden Newspapers, 1500 Main St., Wheeling. Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis, with a maximum of two tickets per person. The tickets will be available at...

The five allegedly illegal aliens arrested earlier this week appealed directly to Ohio County Sheriff Tom Burgoyne on Thursday morning for release of their vehicle. Burgoyne said the five went to his residence Thursday morning - one day after they were released from custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and two days after they were arrested by Ohio County Sheriff's deputies as alleged illegal aliens. Burgoyne, who was at home, turned the five away because they had no documents proving their claim to the gold Honda in which they were found early Tuesday. Burgoyne said the five are among...

Union Investigating 'Steelworkers For Bush' Supporters By JOSELYN KING STEUBENVILLE -Local steel union officials are investigating whether the "Steelworkers for Bush" - those supporters dressed in black who stood with President George W. Bush at his rally last week in Wheeling - are all really steelworkers. It was steelworkers wearing blue who turned out Saturday in Steubenville to show support for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and stood behind him at the podium. While he addressed many of their concerns, he said very little directly about the steel industry. "The men of coal and steel are the men who kept...