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Veterans Memorial Bridge to temporarily close for inspection WEIRTON – Eastbound and westbound lanes of the Veterans Memorial Bridge will be closed to traffic, from midnight to 4 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, for a bridge inspection. The closures are being done at night to minimize the impact on motorists. Emergency vehicles will be accommodated. Alternate routes include traveling north to U.S. 30 and then south to return to U.S. 22, or south to the Wellsburg Bridge. The schedule could be altered by inclement weather or other circumstances. Grievance hearing set in Mingo ...

Police Reports

STEUBENVILLE POLICE Quiet night: A Belleview Boulevard resident told police Sunday a dog “continuously barks from (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.) every night. Police sat in the alley beside the residence for a time but “did not hear a dog bark.” Not appreciated: Police told a Brady Avenue resident he needs to stop driving his truck through his neighbor’s backyard Sunday. He said he would stop. Hit-skipped: An employee at Trinity West said a driver struck his drivers’ rear quarter panel and left the scene Sunday. Building security recognized the other driver, a nurse. Booked: Otis ...

Birthdays

Oct. 2 Tom O’Okrita, Newell

Police reports

STEUBENVILLE POLICE Extremely bad break: An officer at a stop sign at South and Fourth streets reported seeing a motorcycle and a vehicle southbound on Seventh Street “at a high rate of speed” Tuesday. He followed the two of them and said the car had stopped and the driver was “throwing items from the vehicle.” The driver, a woman, told police she was following her ex-boyfriend “because they are going through a bad break-up.” Police couldn’t locate him but she ended up picking up the items she’d tossed out of the vehicle. Striking first: A Market Street resident ...

Birthdays

Sept. 30 Nancy Prosser, Toronto Brian Crites, Redmond, Wash.

Police Reports

STEUBENVILLE POLICE Worked up: An employee at Sunset Market Deli reports a man was “calling and making threats to rob the store” Monday. The clerk advised he used Apple Pay at a pump and on his phone it said the transaction completed but “the pump would not activate and said his card was declined.” She printed off the receipt which said the transaction was canceled but the male demanded the store give him $20 worth of gas and when she refused, “he became very aggressive and shoved his cell phone towards her face to show her the transaction.” She advised the transaction ...