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Public meeting on license-plate cameras today STEUBENVILLE — City Council has set aside 45 minutes before the start of tonight’s council meeting so residents can have their say on the use of automated license-plate reading cameras in Steubenville. The public meeting will get underway at 6:45 p.m. Police insist the cameras are a crime-fighting tool used to identify vehicles involved in AMBER Alerts, stolen vehicle cases and serious violent crimes. They say the system records license plates and vehicle information, not who is inside a vehicle. The city’s Flock cameras, paid for ...

Steubenville boy continues to defy the odds

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STEUBENVILLE — Damir Thorn may be just a little boy, but to his mother, he is nothing short of a miracle. Born three months prematurely and weighing less than 1.5 pounds, doctors did not expect the newborn to survive. Yet Damir has continued to defy expectations and thrive. Now 2, he ...

Wintersville creates fund, OKs Cadiz Road bid

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WINTERSVILLE — Members of Village Council Thursday accepted a bid for the Cadiz Road improvement project and created a perpetual fund that will generate money that can be used for future village improvements. Cronin Enterprises Civil and Rail of Imperial, Pa., was selected as the contractor ...

Armed man arrested during Amy Acton visit to Canfield Fair

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CANFIELD — A man was arrested by Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputies at the Mahoning County Democratic Party tent at the Canfield Fair on Sunday afternoon. Patrick Havas, 38, of Canfield, is at the Mahoning County Jail on two charges of felony assault and one count of disorderly conduct, ...

Weirton Council to consider declaring property a nuisance

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WEIRTON – Weirton Council will consider, during its meeting tonight, whether to declare a residential property in the city a nuisance. Convening at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Weirton Municipal Building, councilmembers will be asked to consider a resolution to declare the property at 1201 Hanlin Way “to be a Public Nuisance and Authorizing Abatement of Said Nuisance.” The resolution has been sponsored by Mayor Dean Harris and City Manager Mike Adams. Council held a public hearing prior to its regular August meeting to receive testimony on the property, with several ...

Marcino returns to Edison to lead FFA/Ag program

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RICHMOND — Edison High School alumna Tommi Marcino is back in the classroom, this time to lead the FFA/Agricultural Education program. Marcino, a 2018 EHS graduate, developed a love for animals while growing up on her family’s Richmond farm, where they raised pigs, cows and goats. She ...