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GOP proposal would ban college sports, cell phone bets in Ohio

A group of Republican Ohio lawmakers want to significantly restrict sports betting in Ohio, banning all gambling on college sports and bets placed on cell phones. The move to take away options from bettors comes three years after the state approved legalized sports wagering and it collected billions in taxes over that time. But State. Rep. Riordan McClain, R-Upper Sandusky, thinks it’s all too much. “It’s impossible to watch the games or even listen to sports content without being bombarded with advertisements and offers from gambling companies, particularly focused on the ...

Sworn in

Steubenville Municipal Judge John Mascio administered the oath of service Thursday to Christopher Smith and Laken Ward, the city’s newest firefighter/EMTs. Pictured after the ceremony are, from left, City Manager Mike Johnson, Fire Chief Joe Ribar, Smith, Ward and Mascio.

Stitching support: Quilt shop turns pet food bags into donations

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – From Past to Present Quilt Shop is asking residents to donate their pet food bags so it can make shoulder bags to sell and raise money for area animal rescue entities. Co-owner Joyce Paglialunga said she got the idea to upcycle the used bags through social media. “We ...

Former East Springfield firefighters convicted of stealing nearly $30K from department

STEUBENVILLE — Former East Springfield firefighters John Andrew-Scott Dunkle, 50, and Steve Brian Harris, 52, have been convicted in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court of stealing nearly $30,000 from the department they’d sworn to serve. The jury found Harris, then treasurer of the department, responsible for misappropriating $20,000 of the squad’s funds and Dunkle, the department’s president from 2019-2020, for around $8,000. Prosecutors had argued that Harris took money from the fire department’s coffers to pay his own electric bills, withdrew thousands more from ATM ...

Community Briefs

Election board to meet STEUBENVILLE — The April meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Elections will be Monday beginning at 9:30 a.m.  in the Tower building, 500 Market St. Soup, sandwich sale set WELLSBURG — The Altar and Rosary Society of St John Evangelist Church, 1300 Charles ...

Daily Happenings

Police Beat Steubenville Police Big foot: A resident in the 1400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue reported a breaking and entering Monday. The resident said he returned home from work to discover a back window had been removed and “there was a footprint on the backdoor as well where it appeared someone tried to kick it in.” He thinks it was his ex-girlfriend who did it. Connected the dots: A woman in the 200 block of S. 5th Street told police Tuesday she thinks a man is living in her basement even though she told him to leave. She said she had told him he could stay in her basement ...