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St. Mary’s Central School hosts annual walk-a-thon

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – St. Mary’s Central School hosted its annual walk-a-thon on Friday morning to raise funds for school needs, including books, technology, and classroom supplies. Principal Angel Glitch said the walk began at St. Mary’s Church and saw the entire student body, teachers, ...

Brennan resigns as Bishop Of Wheeling-Charleston Diocese

The Most Rev. Mark Brennan came to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in 2019 as its new bishop with a mission to rebuild the trust the community once had in the diocese’s leadership. The Wheeling-Charleston Diocese had fallen into tumultuous times under the previous bishop, ...

'Social Media incident' triggers lockdown at St. Clairsville Schools

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – St. Clairsville-Richland City Schools were placed on a code yellow lockdown on Friday due to a “social media incident.” “We had a social media issue that was brought to our attention early this morning. As soon as we received notification, we went into a code yellow lockdown while the investigation was conducted,” Superintendent Christina Laudermilt said. “A student had seen something on Snapchat, and we wanted to investigate it, so we went into code yellow until we had an opportunity to investigate the source of the information.” Laudermilt added that ...

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SONS OF ITALY UGUAGLIANZA LODGE 754 hosts a dance night from 7:30-10:30 p.m. the second Saturday of each month at the lodge, located at 3348 Belmont St., Bellaire. FREE CLOTHING GIVEAWAY is offered on the second Monday of each month through November at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Clothes Closet, located at 56381 National Road, Bridgeport (Brookside) from 8 a.m. to noon. Clothing ranges from newborn to adult plus sizes. If you have too many clothes in your closet, attic, spare room, or basement and they are in good condition, the church is also accepting clothes donations. ...

Man charged with pandering obscenity involving minor bound over

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 ...

Trump signs bill funding DHS, ending record shutdown

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 ...