WHEELING, W.Va. — Concerns linger in the Ohio Valley about a potential data center coming to the area.
AI infrastructure company Silicon Foundation purchased the former Centre Foundry and Machine site in the community of Warwood. In late June, plans to convert the 15-acre site into a data center were announced. Silicon Foundation purchased the land for $1.5 million.
Wheeling residents spoke directly to city council members during a 37-minute public comment opportunity. The majority of those

CHARLESTON, W.Va – The six-year-old case of a man accused of fatally striking a Charleston woman with his car as she walked her children to school remains on track to go to trial this summer.
Che Lark
Che Lark appeared before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Carrie Webster on Wednesday for a pretrial conference as he waits to be tried for 12 charges related to the 2020 hit-and-run death of Heather Ross. He is accused of hitting Ross with his car as he evaded police under suspicion of drug

The state school board released Randolph County from a state of emergency, extended a state of emergency in Roane County for six months and declared a state of emergency in Harrison County.
The actions took place during a state Board of Education meeting on Wednesday.
Now under state intervention are: Roane, Mingo, Logan, Upshur, Nicholas, Tyler, Hancock, Boone and Harrison.
With Harrison County, the state action now limits the the local board’s authority, delegating financial and personnel

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The University City will move forward with an effort to remove infrastructure from municipal property that is deemed ‘hostile architecture’ towards residents and visitors.
Brian Butcher
Morgantown City Council approved a resolution Tuesday, 5-2, that bans the architecture and requires the making of an inventory and working toward removing city infrastructure that may restrict people from resting, sitting or other uses of benches. The resolution was approved about a week after

Today on MetroNews This Morning:
–A southern West Virginia cop killer is sent to prison forever
–The massive fire at a Wood County warehouse is finally out
–Lawmakers say they must tread carefully on suggestions of legislation regarding church policy
–In Sports: It’s WVU’s day at the Big XII media days
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Sunday, July 8, 2001 was a dark day for many in the southern West Virginia coalfields. Rainfall poured that night and dumped 5 to 8 inches of rain in parts of Raleigh, Wyoming, and McDowell Counties. The steep hillsides of the region provided nowhere for the water to drain and it rose up into homes and businesses across the three county area.
Entire towns in Wyoming County were flooded like Mullens and Oceana. Along U.S. Route 52 in McDowell County Elkhorn Creek came out of its banks. The

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Marshall University Athletic Director Gerald Harrison addressed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the NCAA’s new eligibility rule, which was filed by 12 former student-athletes from multiple sports.
Gerald Harrison
News broke Monday that 12 former student-athletes are suing over the NCAA’s new “five years to play five seasons” eligibility rule, which was approved in June. The plaintiffs have asked the Cabell County Circuit Court for an injunction. Similar lawsuits have been filed