BRIDGEPORT – Three Bridgeport police officers were honored at the third annual department award ceremony Thursday. Officer Nicholas Bumba won the Extra Mile award and officers Nicholas Battistone and Alexander Elerick won the Outstanding Commendation awards. Assistant Police Chief Darby ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Commission this week heard a presentation about federally-funded GoBus transportation offerings in the county. Kirby Dearth, transit grant coordinator for the Ohio Department of Transportation, said people can travel from St. Clairsville to the ...
Main Street Bank will soon have a new look and a new name, as First Community Bank and Main Street Bank recently announced Main Street’s merger into the First Community. Under the new agreement, the Wooster, Ohio-based Main Street Bank will merge into the Bluefield, Virginia-based First ...
WHEELING – Santa – with some help from WesBanco – flipped the switch on Oglebay Park's 42nd Annual Festival of Lights holiday celebration Thursday night and the official beginning of the Christmas season in the Ohio Valley. The move to light up the night also kicked off the Wheeling ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Andrew Isaac Griffin was found guilty by a Belmont County jury Wednesday of murdering his former Salsa Joe’s business partner Thomas Strussion and Strussion’s wife Angela Strussion and setting fire to their Trails End Drive home near Belmont on September, 21, ...
WHEELING – All four local counties in East Ohio had voter turnout exceeding 50% in this week’s election – but they were all still below Ohio’s statewide turnout rate of 58.1%. In West Virginia, the overall turnout was 38.33%. Ohio, Hancock and Marshall counties exceeded that number, ...
