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Steubenville Fire Car vs empty bus: Three people were taken to the hospital after a passenger car collided with a school bus Monday morning at the intersection of Logan Avenue and N. 5th Street. Fire Chief Joe Ribar said there were no schoolchildren on the bus. Two of the injured appeared to have minor injuries but the third sustained “significant injuries.” Steubenville Police A woman who’d stopped at an ATM said as she opened her car door a man “approached her vehicle quickly…holding a small butane torch,” Sunday. She said, “she felt as if he were threatening ...

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Steubenville Police Driver, bystander cited: The driver of a semi that got caught on power lines, toppling two poles and causing a third one to “lean severely” in the 1400 block of Adams Street told police he was headed to Mr. Fuel but “his GPS took him on the wrong route,” Friday. Police said power lines were laying in the street, and a homeowner told them the impact had ripped the mast attached to the electrical box off the side of his house and the lines were disconnected. Another resident told police the power lines landed on his truck. The driver, Peter Emmert, 65, of ...

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Steubenville Police Woman injured: A woman in the 200 block of S. 4th Street was hospitalized Thursday after she was “stabbed inside her residence by a subject known to her,” Steubenville Police Chief Ken Anderson said. Police had been called to the residence shortly before 2 p.m. “following a report of a female who had been stabbed,” he said. She was taken by ambulance to an area hospital, where she is listed in stable condition. The suspect fled before police arrived. The incident remains under investigation, he said. Behaving badly: A man in the 800 block of Market ...

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Steubenville Police Pulling punches: A caller said she got in an argument with another female who “pulled her hair and tried to punch her” at a residence in the 400 block of Union Avenue Tuesday. She said the incident took place in a bedroom she rents from the tenant and the female was there visiting the woman renting the room to her. The female visitor said the caller had “punched her in the face” so she “pulled her hair in self-defense.” Blame game: A would-be customer caused a disturbance at the Sunoco station downtown, Tuesday. Employees said the individual was upset ...