Old man winter awakens
Brianna Sadler
SNOW TIME — Area residents got their first taste of winter Tuesday morning when snow covered the ground, causing slick roads in various locations and closing several area schools. And while road crews busied themselves with trying to keep roadways clear from ice and snow, Shane Harris of Archer Township, a Jefferson County Courthouse employee, spent his morning dusting the sidewalk surrounding the courthouse with salt.
STEUBENVILLE — Area road crews were out through the night using some of the road salt that’s in tight supply for the winter on the first significant snowfall of the season.
Officials with the National Weather Service in Moon Township, Pa., said there was an inch of snow on the ground at Pittsburgh International Airport as of 7 a.m. today.
The precipitation began with a quick sleet storm moving across the region at about 5 p.m. Monday. Maintenance crews hit the roads shortly after.
In Brooke County, Chip Kirchner, crew supervisor for the county’s West Virgini
Coroner’s investigator admits to stealing credit card
November 18, 2008STEUBENVILLE — A former Jefferson County coroner’s investigator pleaded guilty Monday in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court in a case in which he stole a credit card from the coroner’s office and used it at a strip club in Weirton.
David
Among the nation’s best
November 18, 2008
STEUBENVILLE — Among the tens of thousands of schools across America, only four have been recognized for their “extraordinary success in educating low-income students and students of color to high academic levels.” And Wells Academy has been named on
» Full StoryArea banks pledging cooperation on loans
November 18, 2008
STEUBENVILLE — Three area bank representatives pledged Monday to work with city and private agency officials to make home loans more available to low- and moderate-income residents.
Officials from Parkvale, WesBanco and Huntington banks m
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