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Trump signs bill funding DHS, ending record shutdown

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in ...

Man charged with pandering obscenity involving minor bound over

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Nicholaus Lee Goins, 25, of Brookside appeared Thursday morning before Belmont County Eastern Division Court Judge David Trouten. Goins was recently charged with seven counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor. On Thursday, he waived the reading of the ...

Police Reports

MARTINS FERRY POLICE Wednesday 12:09 a.m. — Officers were on State Route 7 near Aetna Street with a male walking on the highway. Officers gave the male a courtesy ride to the 700 block of Broadway Street. 5:55 p.m. — A traffic stop was initiated in the 300 block of Hanover Street. The ...

East Ohio Regional Hospital heading to auction

MARTINS FERRY – East Ohio Regional Hospital will be going to auction this summer. On April 16, Belmont County Common Pleas Judge Chris Berhalter ordered the sale of the property. Belmont County Treasurer Katherine Kelich said that whoever wins the bid for the hospital will be on the hook ...