ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Upon taking office in early 2009, Belmont County Commissioner Ginny Favede said people were telling her to give up on the Ohio Valley Mall because all retail would soon head for The Highlands in Ohio County.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio -- The Belmont County Commission asked several construction companies to resubmit bids to renovate the historic sheriff's residence in St. Clairsville. "The bids estimates exceed the project funds available so we are going to very quickly rebid the project," said Commissioner Ginny Favede. "We hope to have the project out within a week to ten days." Architects who designed ...
Eight people are behind bars tonight thanks to the Belmont County Drug Task Force. The task force conducted a drug sweep in Martins Ferry today. Making arrests on charges that all stemmed from cocaine
Because federal funds won’t be increasing and state money is diminishing, county boards of developmental disabilities across Ohio are cutting their budgets.
BRIDGEPORT - Somewhere between Powhatan Point and Bridgeport, officials with Royal Dutch Shell are exploring a possible site to locate the company's ethane cracker, according to Belmont County Commissioner Chuck Probst.
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio -- Police in Belmont County arrested and charged a man on Thursday after accusations that he raped boys. David Wayne Armstrong, 23, is charged with two counts of rape against juvenile males. Armstrong is a former resident of Bellaire. Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson said he believes there are more possible victims. Thompson said the incidents may have been going on ...
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio -- A man who lived in Barnesville for a short time was sentenced to life in prison for raping a child. Steven Spoon, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of rape of a child age 10-13 and two counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor. In July, while Spoon was living in Richmond, Va., the Sexual Predator Internet Initiative Task Force said Spoon was searching ...
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio -- Severe weather caused damage in part of Belmont County overnight Wednesday into Thursday. On Crescent Road in St. Clairsville, a roof was torn from a barn and its debris was scattered in a neighbor's field. Some residents of the road said this wasn't the first time they've been left to pick up the pieces after a windstorm and likened their neighborhood to that of a wind ...
