WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, saying he planned to meet with budget director Russ Vought to talk through “temporary or permanent” spending cuts that could set up a ...
BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 10:57 p.m. Wednesday, an officer was out with a suspicious male on Neffs Road near the Dollar General on Pike Street. One male was detained and taken to jail. Brian Gregory Jeffers was booked into the Belmont County Jail on a charge of failure to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their demands to salvage health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republican in Congress have dismissed as something to possibly discuss ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose to more records on Wednesday, as Wall Street still doesn’t care much about the shutdown of the U.S. government, but yields sank in the bond market following the latest discouraging signals on the economy. The S&P 500 climbed 0.3% to top its prior all-time ...
STEUBENVILLE — Elementary students in Steubenville City Schools are jumping on the bandwagon to take the Governor’s Healthy Ohio Team Tressel Fitness Challenge. Wells Academy and East Garfield Elementary School are joining thousands of kids in grades 4-8 across Ohio to improve their ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Local agencies and officials are already feeling the impact of the shutdown of the federal government that began Wednesday. Belmont County officials said, though, that those effects shouldn’t hit their departments too hard, if at all — at least for now. Belmont ...