BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 11:26 p.m. Monday, officers assisted Bridgeport Police with a traffic stop near Rent a Center on Main Street in Bridgeport. At 11:03 p.m. Monday, a deputy responded to the Belmont County Jail to take a report about an inmate assaulting two ...
BLAINE – Ohio Department of Transportation and Beaver Excavating Co. are in the final stages of box beam installation of the Blaine Hill Bridge. ODOT District 11 Public Information Officer Lauren Borell said that she is excited with the progress the bridge, originally closed in July 2024, ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – A Columbus man is on lockdown in the Belmont County Jail after allegedly assaulting jail staff. Belmont County Sheriff James Zusack said that Myreik Fryson, 28, is accused of attacking two corrections officers in the jail Feb. 9 around 11 p.m. “Usually during 11 p.m. ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – This Black History Month, the Underground Railroad Museum and Ohio University Eastern have teamed up for the ‘Echoes of the Underground Railroad’ exhibit featuring 20 items at the college’s campus. Museum Director Kristina Estle said that this is the first year the ...
After hitting a semantic speed bump on the title and language used in a previous draft, a petition to block Senate reform to Ohio’s recreational marijuana laws is back on track for the ballot. Now, the group behind the petition to roll back parts of Senate Bill 56, signed in January 2025, ...
Ohio government agencies would be barred from defining a parent as “harmful” or “dangerous” for affirming their child’s biological sex rather than their gender, under a bill introduced in the Ohio legislature. The proposed legislation, House Bill 693, is called the Affirming Families ...