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Two Ohio County Schools employees suspended for comments on social media

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 ...

Ohio Valley Newsliners:

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 ...

Co-defendant testifies against suspect in Smith Township woman’s shooting death

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 ...

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

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. ...

Martins Ferry school board to hold special session Tuesday morning

MARTINS FERRY -- The Board of Education of the Martins Ferry City School District will be holding a special meeting at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in the Martins Ferry City School District Administrative Building Board Room. The purpose of the meeting is for the board to take action on the following: · MFEA Negotiated Contract for Sept. 1, 2025 through Aug. 31, 2026 · Letter of Intent to contract with U.S. Omni & TSAGG Compliance Services to provide Third Party (Compliance) Administration Services for the 403(b) and OASBO 457(b) Plans. · Approval of IRC Section 457 ...