Martins Ferry News

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio -- State Route 7 will be restricted during daylight hours starting Monday between 26th and 48th streets in Bellaire for filming of the motion picture "Unstoppable." Traffic will be stopped in 15-minute increments to allow for filming.

The charge against Bruce Callarick, one of the men charged in the Sarah Jessica Parker surrogate scandal, has been dropped, and the case was dismissed by the judge.

When Bellaire Police Chief Mike Kovalyk started his career in 1979, there were 21 police officers with the department.

A new supercomputing center in Wheeling focused on developing smart sensor technologies should be operational in a matter of weeks.

31; Fun Night to follow from 7 to 9 p.m. in the old gym, Third Street. Benwood 5:30 to 7 p.m., Oct.

The presence of sex offenders is an issue that not only worries Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, it's one that breaks his heart.

October 18, 2009: The two Ohio police officers charged with snooping on SARAH JESSICA PARKER's surrogate mum and attempting to sell titbits to the media have had their days in court set.

Make steel or sell to someone who will. That's the message to the owners of Warren's Severstal steel plant.

Companywide there are 388 dues-paying members of the United Steelworkers union on the job at Severstal Wheeling's plants up and down the Ohio River.

A Martins Ferry man was arrested in Wheeling just after midnight Sunday on drug charges.

Sarah Jessica Parker holds daughter Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick, and Matthew Broderick holds Tabitha Hodge Broderick as son James Wilkie looks on, 2009 Getty Premium Sarah Jessica Parker films 'Sex and The City 2' at the Empire Hotel, NYC, Oct.

Trial dates have been set for two eastern Ohio police chiefs accused of snooping on a Hollywood couple's surrogate mother.

ZANESVILLE: Paul Neff Thorburn, 91, of Zanesville, went to his everlasting home, Monday, October 5, 2009 at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital surrounded by loving family.

The Martins Ferry City School District is facing a potential shortfall of up to $2.2 million over the next five years, Treasurer Al Skulich said Monday.

Two of the three local men who are accused in a scandal involving a high-profile celebrity couple and the surrogate mother who gave birth to their twins this past summer were in Belmont County Common Pleas Court on Friday.

"I wanted to write poems of religious devotion in a less obvious and, I hope, more humble way -- one people might more easily identify with," says poet Franz Wright, and right from the beginning, one senses "Wheeling Motel's" departure from earlier collections.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio -- Two of the three defendants were police chiefs, and are now on leave from their jobs.

Inside Edition sits down with Dave Elias. A film crew talks with the reporter who broke the Sarah Jessica Parker Scandal.

The Ohio Valley Wrestling Officials Association will once again be hosting classes for anyone interested in becoming a Wrestling Official.

"Wheeling Motel" by Franz Wright. $26.95. Knopf. Even before he won the Pulitzer Prize, Franz Wright had long been an esteemed poet.