STEUBENVILLE — The current owners of the Sammis plant property are hoping to bring a data center to Jefferson County — but to make it happen, they need a declaration that it is one of Ohio’s priority investment areas. House Bill 15, which takes effect in mid-August, authorizes local ...
Wanita Thompson, 80, of Martins Ferry, OH, passed away, Saturday, June 21, 2025, at Liza’s Place, in Wheeling, WV. She was born on November 18, 1944, in Martins Ferry, OH, to the late Aurthur and Helen (Sicoski) Imer. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, ...
TRIADELPHIA — Ohio County commissioners have decided setting off Independence Day fireworks at The Highlands overlooking flood-stricken Triadelphia and Valley Grove is inappropriate at this time, and the county instead is going to donate the money that would be spent on the rockets’ red ...
WHEELING — On Sunday, I set out with a team of Ohio Valley Mutual Aid volunteers, with only an address to a Triadelphia home. We would spend the afternoon cleaning up from the flash flooding that hit the region on June 14. OV Mutual Aid sends teams of three to five to help flood victims who ...
EAST PALESTINE — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced a “multi-disciplinary, community-focused series of studies” to better understand the implications of the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical release on public health in East Palestine and ...
WELLSBURG — A Wellsburg man is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a Mingo Junction man at his workplace on Friday afternoon. Michael Allen Groch, 39, of 301 Fowler Hill Road, Wellsburg, is being held without bond at the West Virginia Northern ...