Belmont County News

Monroe County registered four new voters Tuesday, but apparently none of them were ready to cast their ballots.

Convicted murderer Eugene Blake will remain incarcerated at the Mount Olive Correction Center through the remainder of this year, Fayette County Circuit Judge John Hatcher ruled today.

A Barnesville man died after he rolled a garbage truck Tuesday morning, and a Colerain man was hospitalized as a result of an unrelated crash.

The case against a former Belmont County priest accused of sex assault has been dismissed.

As war and a financial crisis plague the United States, former Vietnam prisoner of war Tom Moe told Belmont County Republicans on Tuesday he knows just the man to lead the nation during trying times.

Woman did not see him stopped to turn, authorities said. Officials said Duane Rose, 70, was westbound on Route 250 in the Colerain area at 5:50a.m. Tuesday.

Several weeks ago, a Belmont County jury told Judge John Solovan it could not decide the fate of Thomas Garrett.

Eugene Blake could be in the hands of Ohio authorities within a few days if a Fayette County, W.Va., judge signs off on a governor's warrant Oct.

Money for adoption, Medicaid and child welfare programs is on the chopping block as the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services seeks to cut another $80 million from its budget to comply with state-mandated ...

Belmont County Prosecutor Chris Berhalter says sometimes crime jurisdictions become battlegrounds between authorities in neighboring counties and states.

Two Bellaire brothers were sentenced to jail Friday in separate Belmont County courtrooms.

All the ingredients for disaster - a gun, drugs and excessive speed - were there as police pursued and arrested Martin Kiggans on Friday, but no one was hurt in the high-speed chase.

The driver cited in a rollover crash that injured four people Wednesday in Belmont County was driving without a license, according to the Ohio State Highway patrol.

An accused rapist allegedly caught viewing child pornography at the Martins Ferry Public Library probably couldn't have done so in a West Virginia library.

A man accused of viewing child pornography in the Martins Ferry Public Library reportedly admitted to having sex with a child over the course of several years.

AEP officials in Ohio say more than 1,200 outages are still being in Belmont County, more than 4,600 in Jefferson County, just more than 3,400 in Harrison County.

There's something about cross country and sweeps that the St. Clairsville Red Devils are becoming used to.

A 36-year-old man charged with aggravated murder appeared in the Common Pleas Court of Judge John M. Solovan II Friday for a pre-trial hearing.

A local law enforcement officer appeared Monday in Belmont County Eastern Division Court before Judge D. William Davis and made a plea of innocent to a pair of charges stemming from an Aug.

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