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Easter pet pictures set WEIRTON — The Hancock County Humane Foundation is holding pet and people photos with the Easter Bunny from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Pet Supplies Plus in Weirton. A $15 donation provides online and printed photos. All proceeds benefit the homeless animals in the foundation’s care. Community Lenten service held SMITHFIELD — Shaffer Chapel African-Methodist-Episcopal Church on township Road 191 held a community Lenten service Sunday. Participating were the Revs. Melody R. Essex, Jim Taylor, Maggie Hoder, Craig Smith, Rich Cunningham and Phil ...

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March 25 Jeannie Roberts, Mingo Junction Police Beat Steubenville Police Driver cited: A juvenile was cited after he allegedly told police he was trying to plug a cord into a port in his 2013 Chevy when he collided with a school bus at the intersection of Fifth and Logan on Monday. A classmate who was in his car sustained a head injury and was bleeding, police said. The impact pushed the bus into a third vehicle, which then was pushed into a fourth vehicle, both unoccupied. The impact pushed the juvenile’s car into a fifth vehicle, pushing it into a sixth vehicle; both were ...

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Palm Sunday service set WEIRTON — St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Three Springs Drive in Weirton will hold its Palm Sunday service at noon Sunday, with the Rev. Steven McKeown from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Steubenville. The organist will be Eric Fithyan. The public is welcome to attend. For information, call the church at (304) 723-4120. Council to meet Thursday FOLLANSBEE — Follansbee Council will have a special meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday at the City Building to finalize the budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Brooke High School to present musical WELLSBURG — ...

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March 21 Janet Pillar, Toronto March 22 Curly Patterson, Mingo Junction March 24 Danny Howard, Mingo Junction Kevin Nicholas, Mingo Junction

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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 ...