One of two men charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman inside her Smith Township , Pa., home in June said he and his accomplice were looking to rob her when the home invasion turned deadly. Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit during a preliminary hearing Monday ...

At 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, a deputy went with an emergency medical service squad to WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital with a female inmate of the Belmont County Jail who was possibly in labor. At 11:47 p.m., the deputy left with the female prisoner en route back to the jail, according to the ...

MARTINS FERRY -- The Board of Education of the Martins Ferry City School District will be holding a special meeting at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Martins Ferry City School District Administrative Building Board Room. The purpose of the meeting is for the board to take action on the ...

TRIADELPHIA — Those in Ohio County who still must register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to receive relief from the deadly June floods have until the end of Monday to do so. Applying in person no longer is an option. The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at the Triadelphia ...

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, a caller reported that there were two individuals passed out in a vehicle parked in the lot off of Valley Plaza Drive in St. Clairsville. A male and female were reportedly found unresponsive. The incident was listed as a narcotics ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A lawyer representing double homicide suspect Andrew Isaac Griffin on Friday indicated there are plans to file an affidavit of indigency on his behalf. Lawyer Kate Clark of the Columbus-based Samuel H. Shamansky Law Firm declared that intent in Belmont County Common Pleas ...