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Steubenville Police Magnetic attraction: A woman who befriended a couple earlier in the year said the friendship has soured and now the female “has accused her of being romantically interested” in her beau, Monday. She said she’s no longer interested in being friends or communicating with them but they’re still contacting her, “calling her derogatory and vulgar names and challenging her to come outside and fight.” Police explained to her what she’d have to do to obtain a civil protection order. Cracked up: Police were asked to check on a “possibly deceased male” in ...

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Wellsburg Police Charged: Shaun D. Reed, 51, 934 South Fifth St., Steubenville, possession of a controlled substance and driving while suspended, Sunday. Steubenville Police Not their first rodeo: A man in the 200 block of South Fourth Street said a woman “destroyed his home while she was intoxicated,” Saturday. Police said when they spoke with him they saw “glass all over the kitchen floor and a large mirror that was tipped over” and report the male told them she became upset over “personal matters” and threw a wooden chair at him. He said he was able to block the ...

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Steubenville Police Pushy people: A man who had gathered sympathy cards left by family and friends at his mother’s funeral said her sibling and another person snatched them out of his hands and refused to relinquish them, Friday. He told police he’d planned her funeral and was in charge of her property and felt he and his sibling should have had the cards so they could read through them. He said the couple had left town immediately after, taking the cards with them and advising they would send them their share of cards in the mail, but it’s been a few days and none have come. He ...

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Steubenville Police Scissors hand: A man who had business with Social Security was upset when he was told he couldn’t bring his trauma scissors into the office, Wednesday. Police were told the man “became argumentative” when a security officer told him the scissors weren’t allowed in the office but left before police arrived. When they spoke with him, the man said he’d already agreed to leave when he was told he couldn’t go in with the scissors, but then the security guard told him he was being detained and could not leave until police arrived. Mission impossible: A city ...

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Steubenville police Money pit: Tennessee residents who’d hired a Pennsylvania contractor to work on a house they own in Steubenville said he “strung them along and continued asking for money … for work, materials and other supplies,” Tuesday. They said the Wilkinsburg contractor had wanted them to pay him through money apps but they’d refused, choosing to send him money through the Wal-Mart money center so they’d have official receipts for the nearly $2,000 they paid him. He eventually demanded that they come to Steubenville to meet him at the property but then he started ...

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Brooke County Sheriff Charged: Danny Peters, 50, 1038 Clifton St., Follansbee, violation of domestic violence bond condition, Aug. 27. Charged: Joseph M. Beegle, 50, 117 Sunrise Terrace, Follansbee, domestic assault, Aug. 27. Wellsburg Police Charged: Todd B. Buxton, 50, 210 Manor Drive, driving under the influence and improper registration, Thursday. Follansbee Police Charged: Logan M. Bine, 23, 568 Burgoyne Ave., shoplifting, Thursday. Jefferson County Sheriff Fallen rider: A deputy responding to a report of a man lying beside a bicycle near Public Road in Yorkville Sunday ...