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Birthdays April 4 Lindsey Channels, Bloomingdale Dustin Stingle, Toronto April 5 Jonathan Woodbury, Cadiz April 6 Sally Wenner, Toronto April 7 Miranda Corrigan, Steubenville Police Beat Steubenville Police Couldn’t hold it: A man with an overly full bladder ended up on the wrong end of a gun after he went behind a building in the 4500 block of Sunset Boulevard to relieve himself Friday. He told police he had worked there a few years ago when it was a mechanic’s school and considered it an out-of-the-way location, but a man who was on site with his family ...

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Steubenville Police Pointing fingers: A woman in the 500 block of S. 4th Street wanted a male roommate removed from the property Thursday, claiming he had damaged items in the residence. When they told her the man had established residency and would have to be evicted she showed them a bruise and remembered they’d been involved in a domestic disturbance and claimed he’d “attacked (her) in the hallway” and was “yelling profanities…(and) pushed her into the bathroom, where she fell on the floor.” The male told police he had been asleep “when (she) entered his room and ...

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Today’s Birthdays April 3 Jenny Jo DeLauder, Bloomingdale Police Beat Steubenville Police Couldn’t hold it: Callers said a man was “being loud” in the 800 block of N. Sixth Street Tuesday. No one was causing a commotion when police arrived, but a man on a balcony “was yelling that (a man) had urinated in the parking lot.” The man denied it, telling police he “was visiting with a friend and was going to leave after he ate his taco salad.” Police gave him a ride home. Scavenging: Demolition crews arrived at a Lawson Avenue location Monday to find members of the ...

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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