Hancock County News

The 2013 Hancock County Teacher of the Year is a 1998 alumna of Weir High School who finds a way to make sophomore English fun.

Last week's fatal motorcycle accident involving a Hancock County school bus could have been a lot worse were it not for the "masterful" control of the school bus driver involved, Hancock County Schools Superintendent Suzan Smith said on Tuesday.

An area man was killed early Friday morning when his pickup truck crashed just outside New Cumberland, the Hancock County Sheriff's Department said.

Authorities say Jeffrey Brennan, 44, of Newell hit a car on his side of Route 8 near New Manchester, then smashed into the bus Wednesday afternoon.

A motorcyclist was killed Wednesday afternoon when his bike struck a Hancock County school bus head-on and burst into flames.

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Former Hancock County Assistant Prosecutor Don Humberson has been charged in a case nearly one year old where drugs took a man's life.

The organizers of the demolition of the old Taylor, Smith & Taylor pottery site hope to have it "flat by fall." Community leaders who have been involved with the long-anticipated reclamation of the brownfield site could barely contain their enthusiasm when they heard that news at an update meeting Monday night.

Talks of providing Weirton residents with an opportunity to get a free meal have come to fruition with the Table of Hope.

Ken Thorn's grandson, Ash, is playfully unzipping the front of his grandfather's police chief shirt.

The small home at a rural crossroads in central Hancock County is where James Stanley lived and worked for many years.

A former assistant prosecutor has been charged in connection with an incident last year in which a man overdosed on heroin and died weeks later.

Hancock County Sheriff Mike White said Friday that James Stanley was using an acetylene torch on a 55-gallon drum when the accident occurred Thursday in New Cumberland.

The Hancock County commissioners are not gambling men, but they're willing to bet they're right when it comes to why hotel occupancy tax revenues are down.

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A New Cumberland area man died Thursday in an explosion while welding a 55-gallon steel drum at his Ballantyne Road home.

One man was killed after an explosion in Hancock County on Thursday. The explosion happened a near a home on Ballantyne Road in New Cumberland, near the intersection of Shady Glen Road.

People's changing communication habits have been more of a threat to the U.S. Postal Service than snow, rain, heat or gloom of night ever were.

Overnight last Friday, 10-month-old Erica Smith's parents heard their baby gasping for breath and knew something was wrong.