Steubenville News

DENTZ, Donald A. "Don", 79 of Brilliant, Ohio, passed away Saturday November 7, 2009 at the Carriage Inn of Steubenville, under the care of Valley Hospice, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Incumbent Democratic Steubenville Mayor Domenick Mucci won his bid for reelection Tuesday.

The Jefferson-Belmont Regional Solid Waste Authority officially hire Jack Cera as its new coordinator Monday.

An early-morning rollover accident sent one person to a local hospital Monday. Steubenville police told NEWS9 the crash happened near Big Red high school just before 6:30 a.m. on State Route 7 in the southbound lanes.

Hundreds of area veterans received a variety of information and screenings during the 16th annual Veterans Health Fair held Saturday by the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Jefferson County Veterans Service Commission and Steubenville City Schools.

ANTONUCCI, Frances M., 88 of Steubenville, died Wednesday November 4, 2009, in the loving company of her children in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Convicted murderer Terrell Yarbrough broke down sobbing as he addressed the families of his victims and apologized for his role in the May 31, 1999 murders of Aaron Land and Brian Muha.

Customers of National City Bank will see the changeover of local branches to PNC during the weekend, with the branches to be closed for the conversion on Saturday.

Chris Muha is the brother of Brian Muha, one of the two murder victim's killed by Terell Yarbrough.

Mayor Domenick Mucci easily won re-election to a fifth straight term beating Republican challenger Lou Arrico by a two to one margin Tuesday.

HAWKINS, Kenneth F., 62, of Steubenville, Ohio, passed away October 31, 2009, at his residence.

Polls opened at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. Topping the ballot today in Steubenville is the mayoral race between Domenick Mucci and Louis Arrico .

A southwestern Pennsylvania jury will resume deliberations in the trial of a former Pittsburgh man accused of fatally shooting two Ohio college students in 1999.

Jurors in the Washington County retrial of homicide suspect Terrell Yarbrough yesterday heard testimony from Steubenville, Ohio, police and the victims' roommate, who police described as being frantic on the morning his friends went missing.

A Steubenville, Ohio, police captain and an agent with the Ohio Bureau of Investigation this morning testified that they found live, .44-caliber ammunition in the Steubenville home of Nathan "Boo" Herring, along with two bank cards belonging to a murdered college student.

Mail sorting employees at the Steubenville Post Office have taken on more work during the past year - and have done it very efficiently, according to Robert Frazee, president of the American Postal Workers Union local at the facility.

Tuesday, Steubenville Police Detective John Lelless continued his testimony in the second day of Terrell Yarbrough's trial in the slayings of two Franciscan University of Steubenville students on May 31, 1999.

In his opening statement Monday in Judge John DiSalle's courtroom, Defense Attorney Kenneth J. Haber said his client Terrell Yarbrough wasn't the one who shot and killed two Franciscan University of Steubenville students May 31, 1999, and that it was his companion, Nathan "Boo" Herring.

Police in Jefferson County said they are feeling the effects now that the county's jail stopped taking in new prisoners.

Journalists covering the murder of a 7-year-old Florida girl last week seemed shocked at the number of convicted sex offenders in the area where the child lived.