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Birthday June 10 Dave Brockway, Wintersville Police Steubenville Police Con job: A Sinclair Avenue resident told police Sunday she’d let a male she “doesn’t know much about” stay with her for a few days and allowed him to take her car to an interview at a business on S. 4th Street, but he never brought it back. She said she found out something was wrong when a friend called her “wondering why she was driving down Adams Street” when he was supposed to be at the job interview, so she called the store to ask if he’d interviewed with them and was advised he had not. She ...

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Birthdays June 8 Casey Hanlin, Wintersville June 9 Eric Stoddart, Mingo Junction Ryan Shoulders, Wintersville Larry Gareis, Weirton Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Match game: A resident said his neighbor “set some bushes on fire” Friday in the 400 block of Maxwell Avenue. He said she’d come on his property a few hours before “and accused him of causing Child Protective Services to take her child from her.” The caller had video of the woman walking to her house “after the set the fire and it appeared she was holding some type of container.” Police said the ...

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Birthday June 7 Sophia Zanieski, Weirton Police Beat Steubenville Police Updated: The dog that had been locked on a small ledge outside a second-story bedroom in the 1200 block of State Street Wednesday was removed from the property due to the puppy’s condition, the extreme circumstances in which police found it and the owner’s detachment. The report in Friday’s paper inadvertently omitted information during the production process and didn’t include how police resolved the incident. Lucky day: A burglary in progress was reported in the 400 block of S. 5th Street ...

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Today's birthday June 5 Tim Eddy, Mingo Junction Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Inhumane: Police confiscated a small puppy “whining, scared and pressed up against a window … on a roof with a very small ledge” in the 1200 block of State Street Wednesday. A concerned citizen told police the puppy had been stranded on the roof for more than 45 minutes. There was a light on in a second-story bedroom, but no one would come to the door and then the light “apparently went off,” so the fire department was called to rescue the puppy. As firefighters were trying to get the dog ...

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Today's Birthday June 4 Chrissy Ensell, 58, East Liverpool Birth Announcements Trinity Medical Center West Mary and Jacob McGinnis of Wintersville, a boy, April 16 Kimberly Mikels and Jeremy Patton of Steubenville, a boy, April 17 Jacee and Kody Grimes of Mingo Junction, a girl, April 17 Kayla and Max Brevellko of New Cumberland, a girl, April 22 Ashlynne and Trey Clendenen of Steubenville, a girl, April 25 Christine and Dominic DeFilippo of Wintersville, a boy, April 26 Kaitlin and Christian Whanger of Richmond, a girl, April 27 Railynn Gonzales and Jordan ...

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Recent Birthday June 2 Mykol Owens, Toronto Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Con job: A scammer tried to get his hands on funds belonging to a city business Sunday by claiming to be the new owner and advising the employee to “go to a bank and transfer money through Cash App.” No money was moved. Bully: A woman said she was at a residence in the 200 block of N. 3rd Street Sunday when a male came home and began to “play fight” with her but was “slapping her in the face.” She said she told him to stop multiple times before he grabbed her by her hair and was still holding ...