including the annual Sternwheel Festival. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. With a history that dates back to 1788, Marietta was the first U.S. settlement in Ohio ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - All over the country, federal employees have been let go in response to cutbacks being made by the White House and the Department of Government Efficiency. This week, ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - A Waterford man is facing an involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from a drug overdose death in December 2023. According to a news release from the Washington ...

The Ohio River Sternwheel Festival is held in September. • Thomas, W.Va. — Overlooking the North Fork of the Blackwater River, it offers antiquing and more than 50 homes and sites listed on ...

A mud-encrusted sign that was once attached to the Centennial sits along the Ohio River bank where the sternwheeler was recently raised after partially sinking in January 2018. (Photo by Evan ...

DOUG LOYER Special to the Times The organizers of the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival were glued to the weather reports over the weekend as rainy weather moved into the area. The festival’s ...

The 125-foot sternwheeler grew out of steel and wood as the Prices and others welded, wrenched, hammered and labored from 1997 through 2002. Price and his parents, Bill and Ruth Price, brought not ...

A University of Manchester team studying the Svalbard rock ptarmigan hopes to adapt its findings to benefit poultry farmers interested in breeding heavier, stronger birds. The ptarmigan, an arctic ...