The West Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office has positively identified the body found in Center Wheeling Friday as Frank M. Holmes Jr., 45 of Wheeling.
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Wheeling Police detectives are investigating after a man’s body was found behind a building in the area of 22nd and Chapline Streets in Center Wheeling.
Two people found the body around 10:20 a.m. Friday and called 911.
An exact cause of death is unknown
If there exists a cancer concern, forget it, according
to Wheeling Fire Chief Larry Helms.
If remediation can cleanse the three acres at the end
of 19th...
Larry Helms joined the Wheeling Fire Department in October 1986 and was named chief in September 2007, and this one blaze that destroyed the former Island Exposition Hall involved the largest structure of his 34-year tenure.
According to scanner communication between Ohio County 911 dispatchers and first responders, crews were first released before 8:30 p.m. last night from the scene of the massive fire, but the Ladder 1 and Ladder 6 companies remained to continue efforts to completely extinguished the blaze. Once maintained, a skeleton crew remained on scene.
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.
