Brooke County News

Legislators will be convening interim meetings in Wheeling from Wednesday through Friday.

Local hollows and hillsides are much cleaner and more attractive than they were many years ago, when using them as dumps was common practice.

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The "Big Ol' Booksale" was held Saturday at the Weirton Event Center, bringing together seven area authors and representatives of libraries in Brooke and Hancock counties.

RICHEY, Dr. Drake, M.D., 81, of St. Clairsville, retired Radiologist/Chief of the Medical Staff at Barnesville Hospital, passed away 10 June 2013 at Trinity Hospital in Steubenville.

A local business has teamed with the Follansbee Chamber of Commerce to help an Oklahoma family who lost their home in the recent tornado outbreaks, and the effort has expanded to include many others.

Route 2 in Follansbee had to be shut down for a short period while crews battled a fire on Main Street.

911 dispatchers referred to the incident as a "volatile" situation. When a NEWS9 crew arrived, there were several police cruisers.

Renewal of the contract for Assistant Superintendent Marty Bartz was among many personnel matters before the Brooke County Board of Education on Monday.

Representatives of three Brooke High School clubs presented $2,030 for the Brooke County Animal Shelter during Tuesday's Brooke County Commission meeting.

Two men recently punished by the state racing commission denied proper treatment to a greyhound with a broken leg, and a third man hit another dog, according to newly released information.

The Weirton Daily Times is 85 years old this month. That's relatively young for a community newspaper, especially one in the eastern portion of this country where communities and newspapers have existed for well over 200 years.

Increased patrols in the city of Weirton resulted in the arrest of seven individuals on drug and other charges, police officials reported Monday.

The Steubenville Art Association will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Historic Fort Steuben, 120 S. Third St., Steubenville, for a demonstration by Wayne Chunat of Malvern on "Acrylics as Watercolors."

Jackson Wilson is convinced that one of the greatest windows into a community's history is its cemeteries.

Animal shelters, veterinarians, health departments and county administrators are working together to offer discounted rates on rabies vaccinations all over the Ohio Valley this summer.

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As of 11 p.m. Thursday night, U.S. 22 westbound was shut down from Harmon Creek to the Main Street Weirton exit.

They are: Stacy Hornick of 378 Toat Ave., Bill Liposchak of 381 Toat Ave. and James A. Smith of 319 Toat Ave. Liposchak, the incumbent, has filed as an official write-in candidate.

A recently granted exemption means Weirton Medical Center will no longer need to secure a Certificate of Need to open offices in the Hancock County section of Weirton, Del.