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Local health officials: No reason for elevated worry about measles

STEUBENVILLE — While recent reports have shown increases in measles cases in other parts of the country, local health officials say there's no reason to be overly worried in our area. "I would say the concerns are marginal, at best," said Andrew Henry, director of the Jefferson County ...

Jordan to speak to local Republicans

WINTERSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan will be the keynote speaker at this year's Jefferson County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner. Scheduled for Thursday at the St. Florian Event Center, the annual event will bring together local Republicans, community leaders and supporters, party ...

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE At 10:47 p.m. Sunday, a caller requested a welfare check on his mother at the Utica RV Park on Bond Drive in Belmont. A deputy responded and made contact with the female. Everything was good, the report stated. At 6:01 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to an address in St. Clairsville after a caller reported that a juvenile female needed a ride to her home in Wheeling. Contact was made with the juvenile's mother, and arrangements were made with Wheeling Police to get her home. Wheeling Police were to meet a deputy across from Abbey's on Wheeling Island. ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had the legal authority to veto parts of an appropriations bill that would have allowed beer companies to continue selling hemp beverages until the end of the year, the state argued in a filing with the state Supreme Court. “The governor may veto any item in any bill ...

UMWA honor Willow Grove Mine disaster victims

By GAGE VOTA Times Leader Staff Writer NEFFS — The United Mine Workers of America held a memorial service at the Willow Grove Mine site, honoring 72 miners who lost their lives in an explosion on March 16, 1940. On Saturday, the UMWA, along with several residents went to the mine’s ...

Snow and wind batter parts of U.S., with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes starting later Sunday

CHICAGO (AP) — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. Hawaii also continued to be affected by severe flooding. And portions of the mid-South readied for late-day thunderstorms. Forecasters said the storms will spread eastward and by Monday threaten a large swath of the Eastern U.S., with mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., at greatest risk for high winds and tornadoes. Successive punches of snow, wind and ...