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Steubenville Police Lost power: A Greenwich Avenue resident said his neighbor called him to report a vehicle had struck the front of his home, Monday. Police located a woman who advised she was northbound on Greenwich when her vehicle “stopped going forward.” She said she tried to coast back to her residence and attempted to back it into her driveway but it stopped, and when she “got out to ask her children to assist in pushing it completely into the driveway” it started moving backward down the hill and struck a house before clipping a parked car. Throwing stones: A man in ...

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Brooke County Sheriff Charged: Rian A. Harkins, 24, 106 Fourth St., Follansbee, domestic assault, Saturday. Steubenville Police Facing danger: A S. 4th Street resident complained that a male had “thrown a loaf of bread and hit her with it” during an argument, Sunday. She said the bread “hit (her) in the face” and wanted the male removed from the property, but police told her he’d established residency and would have to be evicted. The male did admit he was upset and threw the bread but denied hitting her. He left for the night with a family member. Police were asked to ...

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Steubenville Police Telling whoppers: A woman claimed she was assaulted by her ex-boyfriend, Saturday. She told police he “shoved her into an ‘object’ head-first along state Route 7” and she fell and lost consciousness in a wooded area next to the roadway. Police noted neither they or Steubenville EMS were able to locate any injuries to her head or face and when they pointed out there was no dirt or mud on her clothing as would be expected given weather conditions, they said she then told them she’d “already changed her clothing” before they arrived on scene, but a ...