WHEELING — Jericho, the longest-serving K9 officer for the Wheeling Police Department, died at 10 years old, the department announced Tuesday afternoon. According to the WPD, Jericho suffered a sudden health issue while on duty on Monday and was taken to a local veterinary clinic, where ...
WHEELING — Two employees of Ohio County Schools were suspended Monday over recent comments they posted on social media. Board members deliberated for just over one hour Monday night before unanimously accepting the recommendation from Superintendent Kim Miller that bus driver Bill Nolan and Unique Robinson-Murphy — a social worker serving as Communities In Schools liaison at Wheeling Park High School — both be suspended for five days for their posts. They also will be required to participate in sensitivity training. The comments at issue have since been taken down from their ...
BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 10:11 p.m. Thursday, a deputy assisted Bellaire Police with a large fight at a location on Monroe Street in Bellaire. Bridgeport and Shadyside police also assisted. At 9:10p.m. Thursday, a deputy assisted St. Clairsville Police with a traffic stop on East Main Street and Orchard Drive in St. Clairsville. The officer was granted consent to search, according to the report, and a small amount of marijuana was taken to be destroyed, according to the report. At 8:56 p.m. Thursday, a deputy was out assisting Bridgeport Police with a call about ...
STEUBENVILLE — Franciscan University of Steubenville earned high marks in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-26 Best Colleges guide, climbing the ranks in two key categories among regional universities in the Midwest. Franciscan advanced into the top 25 in the “Regional Universities ...
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 morning, Walter Lee Winland testified against his co-defendant, Michael Coury Pyles, blaming him for shooting and killing 37-year-old Renee Lynn Gill while robbing her in the early hours of June 16. Winland said he used to date Gill and they were still friends, but he planned to rob her of drugs and ...
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 report. At 5:24 p.m. Wednesday, an officer responded to an address on Belmont Road in Bethesda for a report of a DOA. The EMS requested the coroner. At 4:26 p.m. Wednesday, a deputy responded to an address on Rock River Road in Somerset Township after a caller reported that a vehicle was in her yard. ...
