SMITHFIELD — Short Creek Joint Fire District Chief Austin Raymond says investigators are working to determine the cause of a deadly house fire in Smithfield over the weekend but “it’s going to take a while.” Three people — two of them school-aged children — were killed in the ...

BELLAIRE – A body was recovered along the shoreline slightly south of the I-470 bridge on the Ohio side of the Ohio River in the early morning on Monday. Wheeling Police Department spokesman Philip Stahl said that due to the river falling within West Virginia’s jurisdiction, the Wheeling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. would be running Venezuela ...

A Saturday raid of Venezuela, ordered by President Donald Trump and which led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, has drawn mixed reactions from Ohio government leaders. Maduro and wife Cilia Flores sat Sunday in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, ...

MARTINS FERRY — Belmont County Tourism Council is optimistically gearing up for a successful 2026. One of the most exciting accomplishments coming in 2026 will be the completion of the Underground Railroad Museum moving from Flushing to Morristown in the historic Black Horse Inn. The ...

The number of earthquakes in Southeast Ohio have greatly shot upward in the past year, according to a database kept by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Since Jan.1, 2025, at least 173 tremors have been recorded in Washington, Athens, Guernsey, Belmont, Hocking, Meigs, Jackson and ...