News Stories for November 2007
Stories for Friday, November 30
Suspects In Pizza Delivery Robbery Arrested
Steubenville police said a viewer who watched a report on NEWS9 called them with information that landed two people in custody in connection with the robbery of a pizza delivery woman.Beth Bane, 44, and Shane Young, 27, were arrested in connection with the robbery.Mandy Shoplak delivers pizzas for Vocelli's, located ...
New Bill Targets Child Abusers
Brandon Plante is the 5-year-old boy Sen. Jason Wilson said is part of the inspiration behind a new bill seeking harsher punishments against child abusers.Brandon Plante suffered severe injuries when he was only 5 months old, after his own father, Benjamin Plante, shook him causing excess fluid to build on ...
Commissioner: Housing Inmates Is Costly All Around
The Jefferson County jail is in financial trouble, and housing inmates at other jails throughout the Valley is not a solution that will save them much money.Commissioner Mark Thomas talked with NEWS9 about the cost of shipping inmates and housing prisoners outside of their original county, and he said it ...
2006 High School Football Season
2006 Season: Barnesville 2006 Football Season Beallsville 2006 Football Season Beaver Local 2006 Football Season Bellaire High 2006 Football Season Bellaire St. John 2006 Football Season Bishop Donahue 2006 Football Season Bridgeport 2006 Football Season Brooke 2006 Football Season Buckeye Local 2006 Football Season Buckeye Trail 2006 Football Season Caldwell ...
Fans Flock To Wheeling For Super Six Tournament
Whether they drove five minutes or five hours, six high school football teams were in Wheeling Friday with one goal: to win the biggest game of the season.Wheeling Central -- a team which has been part of the championships many times before -- was practicing hard to take the title ...
2007 High School Football Season
2007 Season: Barnesville 2007 Football Season Beallsville 2007 Football Season Beaver Local 2007 Football Season Bellaire High 2007 Football Season Bellaire St. John 2007 Football Season Bishop Donahue 2007 Football Season Bridgeport 2007 Football Season Brooke 2007 Football Season Buckeye Local 2007 Football Season Buckeye Trail 2007 Football Season Caldwell ...
Pizza Delivery Woman Robbed In Steubenville
Steubenville police are searching for a couple they say robbed a local pizza delivery woman at gunpoint overnight.Mandy Shoplack, an employee of Vocelli's Pizza on Sunset Boulevard, was robbed of $200 and her cell phone while trying to deliver a pizza to a home at 14-04 Maryland Avenue. She said ...
Stories for Thursday, November 29
Truck Traffic Troubles Town
Residents of the village of New Alexandria in Jefferson County are asking government leaders to consider placing weight and axle restrictions on County Road 19 to reduce coal truck traffic.Resident Shane Wetherell says the trucks, belonging to Ohio American Energy run as much as 14 hours a day."(They) drag mud ...
SWAT Team Catches Raid On Video
A SWAT team conducted two drug raids Wednesday night, and both incidents were caught on tape.The video shows the team setting up and being debriefed. Soon after, the team made its way to two Cambridge homes where they said they made multiple undercover drug buys.The team then slams through the ...
Stories for Wednesday, November 28
Charleston Out of Super Six Competition?
Every year the six best Football Teams in West Virginia to go head-to-head in what’s known as the Super Six Football Championship.Every two years any city that wants to host the Super Six has to place a bid, then the committee evaluates it, and makes a decision.Nearly every bid has ...
State Pushes For Stricter Punishment Against Child Abusers
A bill introduced Wednesday seeks out stiffer punishment against child abusers in the state of Ohio.Currently, Ohio law does not distinguish between an adult assaulting another adult and an adult assaulting a child.The new bill would allow a judge to impose an additional one to five years to the existing ...
Litterbugs Beware: New Public Punishment
Tommy Lashare walked the streets of Bridgeport, Ohio, Wednesday as part of the village's new program seeking to prevent littering.The village of Bridgeport now has a new way to try and keep people from littering, and Lashare is the first local man to experience the fledgling punishment.Now, people ticketed for ...
Water Departments Along Ohio River Notified After Oil Spill
About 300 gallons of used oil spilled into the Ohio River on Wednesday from a plant in Brooke County.The state Department of Environmental Protection said gallons of the substance spilled from the Mountain State Carbon plant, formerly known as the Follansbee Coke Plant.Contractor Weavertown Environmental was working to clean up ...
Dump Truck Overturns, Prompts Road Repairs
Road repairs were made in Cross Creek Township after a dump truck overturned, lost its load and shut down a local road for hours.The driver was coming from Pittsburgh, headed to a Jefferson County disposal site on Cross Creek Road when the truck overturned. The demolition debris spilled out of ...
Robber Uses Ax To Smash Way Into Wheeling Pharmacy
Wheeling police are searching for the person or persons who broke into a pharmacy early Wednesday.Police said they responded to an alarm at The Medicine Shoppe in the Woodsdale neighborhood on National Road around 2:30 a.m.When they arrived, police found the glass on the door broken out and an ax ...
Track
2007-2008 BOYS VARSITY TRACK SCHEDULE03/25/2008, Home, Mount Lebanon Senior High School, 4:30PM03/29/2008, Away, Doan Ford Invitational, TBA 3-29-08 Bellaire St. John Girls And Wheeling Park Boys Win Doan Ford Invitational At Union Local 04/01/2008, Away, Brooke and Buckeye Local @ Buckeye Local, 5:00PM04/05/2008, Away, West Mifflin Area High School, TBA04/08/2008, ...
Baseball
5-1-08 - WheelingCentral at WheelingPark Baseball 4-11-08 Weir High At Wheeling Park - Baseball 3-31-08 - Wheeling Park at Wheeling Central - Baseball 3-26-08 - Wheeling Park at Magnolia - Baseball 2007-2008 BOYS BASEBALL SCHEDULE(DATE-OPPONENT-LOCATION-TIME)MAR. 21, EDISON, AWAY, 4:30PMMAR. 26, MAGNOLIA, AWAY, 5:00PMMAR. 27, OAK GLEN, HOME, 4:30PMMAR. 28, FAIRMONT ...
Stories for Tuesday, November 27
Sheriff No Longer Accepting Prisoners
The Jefferson County sheriff has sent letters to all local police chiefs notifying them that the jail will no longer accept prisoners come Wednesday, Dec. 5.Sheriff Fred Abdalla said since the jail levy failed on the November ballot, he was forced to make major changes that include reducing the number ...
Urban Mission In Need Of Donations
The Urban Mission in Steubenville needs more donations in order to give gifts to about 700 children who are registered in the Christmas Kids Program.There are 212 children who have not been adopted.Kids ages 12 and under receive gifts from the program and teens get stockings stuffed by volunteers.Linda Smith, ...
Ground Broken For Major Water Project
Nearly 400 people in rural areas of Marshall County will have water service within about a year and a half, thanks to a water line extension project.The Public Service District #4 held a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off the project Tuesday.District general manager George Lagos said the $8.5 million project ...
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