News Stories for July 2006
Stories for Monday, July 31
Divers Search For Missing Teen
Sheriff's deputies in boats and divers searched a water-filled pit at an old strip mine near Lafferty, Ohio Monday night as they looked for a 17-year-old boy reported missing by his friends. Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson told NEWS9 the boy and his friends were swimming in the pit when ...
Residents Say Their Chief Deserves A Raise
Steve Hamman has been the police chief in Amsterdam for five years. Last week he said he went to the council to resign, after getting an offer from another law enforcement agency. But he said he loves his village, and he doesn't want to leave. "I had a job offer ...
It's Hot Across The Valley!
While those temperatures are soaring, people are trying to cool off anyway they can. But some people have to work outside, and the hospital is already seeing patients because of this heat. "Its hot. Its like Africa hot, said Scott Murphy, who works downtown. It doesn't make sense, and I ...
What's Changed At Wheeling Pitt?
It seems not much good news comes from steel companies these days. But one local mill is talking about their success, since making history, and emerging from bankruptcy three years ago this August. "I think on the financial front it hasn't always been easy," said Paul Mooney, CFO of Wheeling ...
Shadyside Schools Reinstates Jobs
Shadyside Schools have revoked a decision to cut two full-time jobs and one part-time position.School Superintendent Terry Brinker said cutting the jobs would have put a void in the educational programs for the students.Brinker said classes would have been restructured and programs lost -- something school administrators just simply didn't ...
Boy Falls From Rope Swing, Hits Rocks
A 15-year-old boy is recovering from injuries sustained on a rope swing along the Ohio River.Marilyn Boyd said her son, Jimmy, had two surgeries at Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh as a result of the accident.Thursday, Jimmy Boyd was swinging on a rope attached to a tree along the riverbank on ...
Coal Spill Leaves Sludge In River
As local residents try their best to keep cool, a coal spill in the Ohio River has left a black, sludgy mess in the northern waters of the Valley.The spill was discovered near New Cumberland, Hancock County, early Monday.Tom Szymanek, who owns a nearby campground, said he saw the spill, ...
Police Search For Leads In Fatal Shooting
Investigators are still searching for leads after the shooting death of a Weirton man over the weekend.Joshua Ryan Sweat, 28, of Weirton, was shot to death early Saturday in an empty parking lot just feet away from the police station.Steubenville detectives and state investigators are pursing all leads, and said ...
Local Athletes Compete With Heat
High school football players in West Virginia are not only competing for positions, but they're battling the intense heat.Practice is underway this week, and the severe weather can be not only a distraction, but can also be dangerous.Dave Reiter, Brooke High School football coach, said athletes are required to bring ...
Man Arrested After Teen Says They Had Sex In Library
One man is charged after a 14-year-old girl said she had consensual sex with him in a public library.Officials at the Bellaire Public Library said they were unaware of the event until police requested surveillance video last week.Library officials said the video caught an older man and the young girl ...
Search Continues For Attempted Abductors
Steubenville police are still searching for two men who allegedly chased a 13-year-old girl and tried to abduct her.The girl said she was walking home from a friend's house Thursday night when a van with two men inside pulled up beside her at the corner of Carnegie Street and Oregon ...
"Hopeline" Works To Save Families
Support from family and friends is how Mary Tice gets through the toughest of moments.Together for 25 years, Mary and Larry Tice had the perfect marriage."We did everything together," Mary Tice said.But in February, her husband took his own life."I didn't just lose my husband , but I lost my ...
Experts Say There's A Downside To College Remedial Classes
Education experts say many students who enroll in Ohio's publicly funded colleges and universities have to take remedial "catch-up" courses in math and reading. It's a worrisome sign that students aren't being prepared in high school. About 41 percent of Ohio high school graduates who entered the state's public colleges ...
DEB Reviews "The Ant Bully"
THE ANT BULLY (Based on the book by John Nickle) 83 Minutes Lucas "Peanut" Nickle (Zach Tyler) gets bullied by a much larger neighborhood kid and his posse and takes out his frustration on the ants that live in his lawn. With the help of their wizard, Zoc (Nicolas Cage), ...
Stories for Sunday, July 30
DEB Reviews "Monster House"
MONSTER HOUSE 90 Minutes DJ (Mitchel Tate Musso) lives across the street from a house that "eats" things, including a dog, and when his mom and dad (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara) go to a convention, he slips by the babysitter, Zee (Maggie Gyllenhaal), and her boyfriend, Bones (Jason Lee), ...
Search For Man In Need Of Medication
It's been two days, and still no sign of a Belmont County man who needs his medication, and his family said they fear for his life. Around Two O'clock Saturday afternoon residents in the Blaine, Ohio area reported seeing a man wandering in their yard, disoriented and confused. On Sunday ...
DEB Reviews "Miami Vice"
MIAMI VICE 146 Minutes Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Rico Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) have made it to the big screen but Miami really didn't! Most of the action takes place in Haiti and Columbia, South America. Gone are the pastels and art deco architecture along with the rolled-up suit jacket ...
Bees Swarm McMechen
Thousands of bees were set loose in a local neighborhood, causing officials to shut down roads, and work for hours to get the problem under control. Officials said an extermination attempt gone wrong on the 700 block of Marshall Street, sent thousands of bees swarming into McMechen, W.Va., Saturday evening. ...
Stories for Saturday, July 29
Two Murders In Less Than One Month
In the past 16 days, acts of violence in Steubenville killed two young people. 18 year-old Camay Youngblood lost her life on July 13 after being brutally stabbed in the Labell section of Steubenville. Violence also claimed the life of 28 year-old Joshua Ryan Sweat after someone shot Sweat in ...
Fatal Shooting In Steubenville
Police say 28-year-old Joshua Ryan Sweat, of Weirton, W.Va., was walking through an empty lot in downtown Steubenville around 1 a.m. Police said they believe Sweat may have been headed to Pee-Dee's bar, but he never made it there, because a bullet stopped him in his tracks. "One of the ...
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