Belmont County News

A man charged with raping a child is headed to prison after a Belmont County judge handed down his sentence Monday.

Law enforcement officers are well aware that whenever they fire their guns in the line of duty, they will be second-guessed. They also understand that such investigations will consume weeks, perhaps months, in coming to conclusions about decisions officers had to make in split-seconds. Such an investigation is under way now.

A barn caught fire early Sunday morning in Belmont County , according to dispatchers.

Garrett Knott/The Daily Jeffersonian/www.buyjeffphotos.com The Guernsey County Common Pleas Court held host to ten visiting judges, part of the Ohio Judicial Conference, for the Shale Oil and Gas Roundtable Friday afternoon in Cambridge.

A West Virginia man trying to escape from custody at a courthouse on Thursday jumped into a getaway car driven by an Ohio woman, but a deputy shot the car's tire and the man and the woman were arrested, a sheriff said.

A Belmont County judge laid out a tentative plan Friday for a man accused of killing an elderly Bellaire woman last summer.

A man charged with burglary was arraigned in Belmont County Common Pleas Court on Friday.

Authorities say they shot the tires of a car to stop a man trying to escape from an eastern Ohio courthouse.

A man identified as Sylvester Walker attempted to escape from Eastern Division Court this morning after having his bond revoked, forcing a sheriff's deputy chasing him to shoot out the tires of the vehicle, according to police and several witnesses.

There are reports of shots fired outside an eastern Ohio county courthouse. A clerk says a sheriff's deputy shot out the tire of a man trying to flee arrest.

A Belmont County couple accused of animal cruelty was back in court Wednesday morning.

Local issues and a number of school levies top ballots in local communities during today's primary election in Ohio.

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Sophia Brewster, 84, owned and lived at Pick's Place bar for 56 years. Relatives told NEWS9's Briona Arradondo that running a bar is a tough business, and the fact that Brewster lasted more than 50 years speaks volumes about her character.

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Officials with the Ohio State Highway Patrol are at the scene of a fatal one-vehicle crash in Belmont County .

A Belmont County man accused of possessing child pornography will appear before a judge later this week for a preliminary hearing.

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Drivers can face a hefty fine if they don't obey the "Move Over, Slow Down" laws in Ohio and West Virginia.

The Belmont County Commissioners have heard the voice of the people, striking down the proposed $10 license plate fee in the county, two votes to one.