BELLAIRE — One person is dead and another is in custody following a Thursday night shooting in Bellaire. Belmont County Coroner Amanda Fisher confirmed one male fatality and that an autopsy is already being scheduled. Fisher said that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation Criminal ...

BELLAIRE — Detectives with the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Unit assigned to the Attorney General’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission began an investigation into drug trafficking in the area of the Bell Village Apartments in Bellaire on ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The annual Homestead Sportsman’s Show — a two-day celebration of everything hunting, fishing and the great outdoors — is slated Jan. 24-25 at the Homestead Event Center, located at 52335 Buena Vista Drive in St. Clairsville. Organizer Tim Starkey said the show will ...

(The Center Square) — A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of a former Ohio State University student expelled for posting social media videos criticizing Israel’s military actions in Gaza. The university first suspended Guy Christensen, an undergraduate student and social media ...

SHADYSIDE — Mike Meintel, now at the helm of Shadyside village leadership, presided over his first meeting as mayor on Wednesday as council met for the first time in 2026. His message was direct — a turbulent 2025 plagued by infighting, internal issues and scandal is in the past and ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A Martins Ferry company must pay more than $34 million in penalties to the state of Ohio for storing a potentially dangerous overabundance of oil and gas waste on their property while profiting financially. Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge John Vavra has ruled that ...