Norfolk Southern has suffered another derailment — although this one was more an inconvenience than a disaster. Monday morning, at the company’s rail yard near Portsmouth, Ohio, eight train cars carrying several thousand pounds of soybeans derailed. Three of those cars turned over ...

Ohioans have plenty of reason to worry about prices that just seem to keep going up and up, but there may be good news ahead for the state’s private employers. Because of prioritized health and safety measures in our workplaces — and at least one state agency willing to take into account ...

The Northern District of West Virginia has had a number of excellent U.S. attorneys over the past half-century. Add outgoing U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld to that list. Belmont County lies in the Southern District of Ohio, but often cases investigated and tried in the Northern DIstrict ...

Here in Eastern Ohio, we don’t hesitate to express our admiration and appreciation for our first responders. Whenever firefighters and emergency medical personnel respond to an accident, fire or other emergency, we are quick to thank them for their service. On occasion, area residents stop ...

Eastern Ohio just experienced some of the most frigid weather it has seen in about a decade, and while the worst of this arctic blast appears to be behind us and temperatures are expected to moderate over the next several days, the reality is we are in the middle of winter and it will continue ...

CHEERS to local firefighters who have selflessly given of their time and efforts, risking their health and safety in bone-chilling cold, to battle recent blazes across Belmont County. JEERS to the dangers presented to everyone in the region by the frigid temperatures this week. As the mercury ...