St. Clairsville News

Belmont County detectives are cracking down on copper thefts after several months of investigating.

Police in Belmont County need help catching a shoplifter caught on camera at the Walmart in Saint Clairsville taking a rather large item.

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Police in Belmont County need help after learning several dozen counterfeit bills were used at businesses in the county.

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An Ohio Department of Natural Resources inspector said that when he went to a Belmont County farm on May 16, he found "what appeared to be oil-based mud that had been discharged directly onto the ground," along with standing water that also may have contained well drilling waste.

A Harch Environmental Services official said the company has not been required to cease doing business in Ohio altogether, despite allegations of illegal brine dumping at a farm near St. Clairsville.

Representatives from two state groups with generally opposing viewpoints on energy policy are more like-minded in their positions on companies that illegally dump oilfield wastes.

Officials with the Ohio State Highway Patrol are investigating a fatal pedestrian accident in Belmont County .

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is pursuing criminal and civil penalties against another company accused of illegally dumping brine waste from eastern Ohio's growing shale oilfields.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is pursuing criminal and civil penalties against Harch Environmental Resources of St. Clairsville, which allegedly dumped "brine and other oil and gas related wastes" onto a Belmont County farm, according to orders issued by ODNR's oil and gas resources division Monday.

Belmont County developers are hoping to break ground on a new hotel in the Morristown area this summer, and the construction means more money for the county.

A portion of Interstate 70 in western Belmont County is one of several stretches of highway where the state of Ohio will raise the speed limit from 65 mph to 70 mph this summer.

Traffic stop, crack pipe found A 30-year-old Cleveland man was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a loud exhaust, unsafe vehicle, driving under suspension after police found a pipe used for smoking crack-cocaine under the seat of his car following a traffic stop on Route 21 at around 11:30 p.m. May 13.