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Wintersville woman killed in wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Pa.

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BURGETTSTOWN -- A Wintersville woman died Sunday night in a wrong-way crash on U.S. Route 22 in Hanover Township. State police said Dawn R. D’Andrea was driving west in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Burgettstown exit shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she crashed head-on into another car. D’Andrea, 53, of Wintersville was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene of the crash, according to the Washington County coroner’s office. Cortae Elder, 21, of Wintersville, who was a front-seat passenger in D’Andrea’s car, suffered serious injuries and was flown by medical ...

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JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF Got the boot: A man living on township Road 241, Toronto, told deputies his ex slit his truck tire Saturday. He said she'd been next door at his sister's house drinking and when she showed up at this house he told her not to come in, she told him she "just wanted to ask him a question." He said he warned her a second time but she came in anyway, so he "kicked her in the chest and she fell off the stairs." He said he stayed in the house until he heard a loud noise and when he investigated, discovered the tire had been punctured. Picture this: A Jefferson ...

Sharing love of reading

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Contributed Students at St. Paul School in Weirton paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton and her Imagination Library by holding a "9 to 5" Book Drive. They were allowed to wear free dress when they donated new or gently used books to the school library and other local libraries. Among those ...

Wintersville woman killed in wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Pa.

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A Wintersville woman died Sunday night in a wrong-way crash on U.S. Route 22 in Hanover Township. State police said Dawn R. D’Andrea was driving west in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Burgettstown exit shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she crashed head-on into another ...

Data centers front and center in Ohio Senate race

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A stretch of federal land in southeastern Ohio is about to hold one of the largest data center projects in the world, and the debate surrounding the facility has come to dominate Ohio’s battleground Senate race. U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, is defending his seat against former Sen. Sherrod ...

Local historian chronicles memories of Beatty Park

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STEUBENVILLE — Flora L. VerStraten-Merrin is a local historian and was a driving force behind the formation of the Friends of Beatty Park. In the final stages of writing a book about the park, she says it has brought her to the realization that park was and still is a connective historic ...