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Traffic Reminder Issued Before Weirton Independence Day Events

WEIRTON – As part of the festivities for the Independence Day holiday, portions of Main Street in Weirton will be closed to traffic from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. Vehicles will not be allowed to travel between Cove Road and Marland Heights Road, with motorists traveling south detoured onto Cove Road and U.S. 22, and northbound traffic sent onto Marland Heights Road and then West Street, where they will travel to the Lee Avenue intersection and back onto Main Street. Those driving west on Cove Road will turn north onto Main Street, with those seeking to go south then required to ...

Post 159 Steps Up to Sponsor The Wall That Heals

BELMONT COUNTY — Larry Barnes' voice caught as he talked about his friends whose names are on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The commander of American Legion Post 159 in St. Clairsville was in Washington, D.C., at the dedication of the memorial in 1982 with his wife, Cheryl, the president ...

Arrest Made In Wheeling Malicious Wounding Case

A Wheeling man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a Monday stabbing incident in Elm Grove, according to Wheeling Police. Cannon Lee Furman, 26, was charged with three counts of malicious wounding. He was arraigned Wednesday in Ohio County Magistrate Court and taken to Northern Regional ...

Jefferson County gets $45K for brownfield development

STEUBENVILLE — Jefferson County will share in $15.5 million in Ohio Department of Development grants that will help communities clean up contaminated properties and prepare them for redevelopment. "We're excited about the grant money," Robert Naylor, executive director of the Jefferson ...