Jefferson County News

Across the nation communities celebrated military veterans for Memorial Day Monday, and services in Jefferson County drew hundreds of people.

The Barshoe Wranglers 4-H Club members and Cloverbuds painting garbage receptacles to beautify the new Wall of Honor area at the Amsterdam gazebo park.

A plaque containing the names of 19 men who worked at the Steubenville plant of Wheeling Steel Corp.

The Jefferson County Coroner has identified the victim of a fatal fire in Steubenville Saturday.

Investigators from the state fire marshal's office are continuing to examine evidence from two fires early Saturday morning.

Memorial Day will find Don Richards busy attending and taking part in services in Cadiz, New Athens, Moorefield and Hopedale, and likely some other cemeteries as well.

No parent should have to answer children who want to know why someone is trying to kill them.

Island Creek Township trustees asked Jefferson County commissioners Thursday for help in cleaning out or replacing storm water sewers that have led to flooding in Pottery Addition.

A Jefferson County flood grant is helping long-term unemployed workers land jobs, especially in the oil and gas industry.

The annual meeting and membership dinner of the Old Fort Steuben Project Inc. held Wednesday evening at Froehlich's Classic Corner was not a time for yearly stats on money made and visitors logged.

The city is about to step up its campaign against lawbreakers in the wake of recent shootings and other high-profile crimes.

The Jefferson County Board of Health on Tuesday denied a 2012 operating license for the C&D Disposal Technologies landfill and authorized legal action against the facility for accepting municipal solid waste material.

Edwin L. Moorehouse, 22, of Steubenville was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr.

The Ohio State Fire Marshal visited the Ohio Valley this weekend to bring attention to achievement from Jefferson County fire departments.

That's because on May 28, dedication ceremonies for a veterans memorial project launched three years ago will be held - a project that honors both peacetime and wartime service men and women.

SEMKO, Peter J., Jr., 72, of Aiken, SC, formerly of Bloomingdale, OH. passed away Wednesday evening, May 16, 2012 at his residence.

Some good news about a runway extension project at the county airport landed on the desks of the Jefferson County commissioners on Thursday.

And it returned in grand style, literally, on May 10 when the YWCA hosted its annual style show and membership luncheon at the facility, which is located at 320 N. Fourth St., Steubenville.

Three people were killed Thursday after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden section of Louisville.

A Steubenville man could face up to 19 years behind bars after a Jefferson County jury convicted him of an assault and robbery.