WOODSFIELD — Incumbent Monroe County Commissioners Tim R. Price and Carl M. Davis, both Democrats, each won a third consecutive four-year term. Price captured 3,293 votes, defeating Independents Patti S. Haralson with 2,103 and Mark Hutchinson with 950. Davis gathered 2,553 votes, beating ...

BELLAIRE — Voters in the Bellaire Local School District rejected the five-year, 3-mill levy that would have helped the fiscally challenged school escape its financial woes, unofficial results showed late Tuesday. “We are very disappointed,” a dejected Superintendent Darren Jenkins said ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman handily won re-election over Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday in a race Democrats once considered a good opportunity to pick up a Senate seat. Portman, who served in the administrations of Republican former Presidents George ...

WHEELING — Voters in eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia chose Tuesday to stay the course by sending U.S. Reps. Bill Johnson and David B. McKinley back to Washington for another two years. Johnson, R-Ohio, handily beat his Democratic challenger, Belpre Mayor Mike Lorentz, 209,177 votes ...

WHEELING — Democrat Tom Howard will be the new sheriff in Ohio County starting in January. Howard, a Wheeling police officer who serves as prevention resource officer at Triadelphia Middle School, captured 9,233 votes in defeating Republican John Powell, who received 8,445, according to ...

WHEELING — Bus service will continue for residents in Wheeling, Bethlehem and Benwood until 2020 under the Ohio Valley Regional Transit Authority. Voters strongly supported levies in each location, with unofficial results showing a 74 percent vote in Wheeling at a total of 8,288 to 2,856; ...