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Today's birthday David “Mope” Boyd, 65, Piney Fork Police Beat Jefferson County Sheriff Wild life: A Rayland woman told deputies she was trying to trap a raccoon “but ended up catching a baby bobcat” March 29. Deputies said ODNR dispatches stated they “would get a wild life officer to her.” Road hazard: Drivers of three vehicles parked in the area of state Route 7 North at the Rayland exit said they “hit a pothole that caused a flat tire.” Drugs: A caller in Mingo Junction reported a woman had overdosed and required Narcan March 29. People at the location said ...

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Birthdays April 1 Drake Ziarko, Steubenville Police Beat Steubenville Police Making it up: Someone called 9-1-1 and claimed to be chased “by someone with a knife” in the 500 block of Lawson Avenue before hanging up Monday. The caller didn’t give any more information and didn’t answer when dispatchers tried to call him or her back. Police talked to individuals in the area “who all advised they did not observe any such incident and none of them were the caller.” Nicotine fit: A man upset because a Coen clerk wouldn’t sell him tobacco products without a valid ...

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March 25 Jeannie Roberts, Mingo Junction March 26 Pat Pesta, Smithfield March 27 Audrey “Bobby” Allen, Mingo Junction March 28 Jacob Gasser, Marysville March 30 Bill Crowe, Summerfield, Fla. March 31 Arrow Maderea, Mingo Junction Joe “Boze” Potenzini, Mingo Junction

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Mingo Council adjusts meeting schedule MINGO JUNCTION — Village Council has had to adjust its meeting schedule for the month of April. Mayor Judy Ruckman said council normally meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month but two council members won’t be available on those dates and a third, who resigned, has not been replaced. “This month only, meetings will be April 7 and April 21,” she said. Business meetings begin at 7 p.m. in the village building, 501 Commercial St., Mingo Junction. Steubenville Twp. special meeting Tuesday MINGO JUNCTION — Steubenville ...

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Road rage reported: A motorist allegedly involved in what was described as a road rage incident on Sunset Boulevard near the midtown Speedway “where one of the drivers brandished a firearm” was taken into custody Sunday. Police said Jovionte D.E. Howes, 27, 1805 N. 9th St., Apt. D, Martins Ferry, was charged with aggravated menacing after the other driver told them he’d “pulled a handgun out, pointed it at her and pulled the slide back.” Howes denied having a handgun but said there was a BB gun under the seat, claiming the other driver, a female, “tried to run him off the ...

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Police Beat Jefferson County Drug Task Force Man charged after search – A Mingo Junction man was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on felony drug charges after detectives with the Jefferson County Drug Task Force searched his home Thursday. Joseph W. Francis, 39, of 132 Garfield Ave., was booked without bond on charges of possessing fentanyl and crack cocaine. Police said they seized 94 grams of a substance believed to be fentanyl and two grams believed to be crack cocaine. The raid involved the task force, Jefferson County Special Response Team, the sheriff’s department and ...