TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The four-time defending NFC South champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers have lofty goals entering the franchise’s 50th season.
They want to celebrate their golden year with their third Vince Lombardi trophy. Every team hopes to win the Super Bowl, of course, but it’s more realistic for some than others.
Count the Buccaneers among those who should be considered legitimate contenders even though they don’t get much attention. Tampa Bay is tied with Chicago for the 14th-best Super Bowl
Anyone who’s followed the dissolute life and times of Hunter Biden knows that no one wanted the Biden presidency to end less than Hunter. His father’s power was a cash cow, giving him millions he wasted on crack cocaine and hookers. So when he tried to mount a moral high horse in a three-hour podcast interview, that’s news
The Associated Press hinted at it. Hunter, “seen by some as the problem child of the Democratic Party for legal and drug-related woes that brought negative attention to his
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spencer Horwitz hit his first career grand slam and Bailey Falter matched a career-high with eight strikeouts to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-1 win and sweep of the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday.
Horwitz drove a two-out cutter from Troy Melton (0-1) 416 feet to centerfield to make it 5-0.
Andrew McCutchen opened the scoring in the first with his ninth homer of the season.
Bryan Reynolds led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly from Oneil Cruz in the third inning.
CHARLESTON – Nearly 40 days after devastating flash flooding caused massive damage and claimed the lives of nine people, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday afternoon that a disaster declaration was issued for Ohio and Marion counties.
“It is my Great Honor to grant $11.7 Million Dollars to the beautiful State of West Virginia for severe tornadoes and flooding that impacted their incredible people in June,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening. “I just finished speaking
BRIDGEPORT — Citynet is proud to announce that its President and CEO, Jim Martin, has been appointed to the West Virginia University (WVU) Board of Governors by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.
Mr. Martin joins a distinguished group of appointees that includes Bray Cary and Oliver Luck, both well-respected leaders in business and sports management. Their appointments reflect a commitment to strong, forwardlooking leadership at the state’s flagship university.
A lifelong West Virginian
Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory.
It was born last week, when news broke of CBS canceling Colbert’s late-night talk show.
The network’s move wasn’t hard to understand:
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” reportedly loses $40 million a year, and Colbert is already in the final year of his contract.
Viewership for all the late-night gabfests is evaporating; there’s no recovery in sight.
Colbert is number one in his timeslot, but his show costs $100 million a year to produce
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ELKINS — A Valley Head man accused of running over another man with an ATV in September accepted a plea agreement to drop one of two felony charges this week.
Joseph Lee Shipman, 38, appeared in front of Randolph County Circuit Court Judge David Wilmoth and accepted a plea agreement that would see him plead guilty to one count of malicious assault, a felony.
Shipman was initially indicted in February on one count of malicious assault and one count of attempted malicious assault, a felony. He is
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances.
If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at constructions sites and in mines, and limit the government’s ability to penalize employers if workers are injured or killed
MORGANTOWN — To Athletic Director Wren Baker this weekend was one of triumph and it had far less to do with Best Virginia than it did with West Virginia University.
While the state’s sports fans were focused on The Basketball Tournament’s matchup between the WVU’s alter ego named Best Virginia and Marshall’s named Herd That, Baker was crossing the T’s while dotting the I’s as he tried to solidify his coaching roster which previously had seemed to be built on a foundation of Jell-o.
On Friday he
PHILIPPI – A man and woman are behind bars after police investigated the alleged physical abuse of four children, including the man holding children off the ground by their throats as a punishment.
Brandon Guy Tenney, of Montrose, is charged with five counts of strangulation and seven counts of child abuse resulting in injury, all felonies.
He is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $200,000 surety/cash bond.
Bethany Marie Fortney, 30, of Philippi, is charged with child neglect
