ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A woman accused of stabbing a Bellaire McDonald’s employee appeared in Belmont County Eastern Division Court on Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing. Aryan Summer Alvarez, 30, is facing one charge of felonious assault and one charge of drug possession. Alvarez is ...

WHEELING — A provision in the Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2026 that passed the U.S. House on Thursday would criminalize greyhound racing nationwide. That means the nation’s two remaining dog tracks — Wheeling Island Casino Hotel Racetrack and Mardi Gras Casino & Resort, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Nicholaus Lee Goins, 25, of Brookside appeared Thursday morning before Belmont County Eastern Division Court Judge David Trouten. Goins was recently charged with seven counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor. On Thursday, he waived the reading of the ...

MARTINS FERRY POLICE Wednesday 12:09 a.m. — Officers were on State Route 7 near Aetna Street with a male walking on the highway. Officers gave the male a courtesy ride to the 700 block of Broadway Street. 5:55 p.m. — A traffic stop was initiated in the 300 block of Hanover Street. The ...

MARTINS FERRY – East Ohio Regional Hospital will be going to auction this summer. On April 16, Belmont County Common Pleas Judge Chris Berhalter ordered the sale of the property. Belmont County Treasurer Katherine Kelich said that whoever wins the bid for the hospital will be on the hook ...