Those are most of the drugs that have killed in this Upper Ohio Valley, according to law enforcement officials in Ohio, Marshall, and Belmont counties. The last decade, though, has been dominated by overdoses involving opioids, including heroin because snorting or injecting the Schedule 1 narcotic is much cheaper than prescription pills.

People pass away every day here in the Upper Ohio Valley, and 99.99 percent of those deaths only are mentioned on a newspaper’s Obituary Page, but in 2019 the public was shocked by a pair of reports out of Marshall and Ohio counties.

We know what patching a pothole looks like, and we’ve witnessed new bridge construction, but never before have residents of the Upper Ohio Valley seen our roadways in such a rotted condition.

No worries … this isn’t going to be long, and that’s because I have been blessed with family and friends here at the house...

For different reasons and on completely separate levels, access is the primary issue when it comes to a couple of closures in the city of Wheeling.

Look around you. It doesn’t matter where you live in this valley … just look around.

A User Fee collection will begin in the city of Wheeling in less than a week to pay for the construction of a $15...

Steel. That’s what most of know, and we are aware of how the industry operates, and unfortunately, how it feels when it shuts down.

They dreamed of The Show.

(Photos archived by James Thornton) It is a process here in the Upper Ohio Valley, and the residents adhere to the traditions long ago adopted...

It’s not about celebrating a person, but instead it's about heralding what that person has accomplished for the good of all of us in...

It was a big day back in 2015, when then-Gov. John Kasich announced that a Thailand company called PTT had intentions for constructing something...