A pipe bomb was discovered in an Avondale Street residence on Saturday. The East Liverpool Police Department called in the Youngstown Bomb Squad to dismantle it without incident. No other information was available Sunday night. (Photo courtesy of East Liverpool Police Chief John Lane)
PUGHTOWN, W.Va. – A lifetime ago John H. Mayhew said to his daughter-in-law, Betty, “I’ve got three priceless chairs here for you to refinish.” When she got a look at the three ordinary kitchen chairs, so old, worn and loose in the joints that they were falling apart, she replied, ...
The Hancock County, W.Va., town later named Pughtown was first settled in the Revolutionary War period. A Presbyterian church was founded there in 1794. In 1810 David Pugh platted the town in 113 lots and named it New Manchester after the Manchester, England, origin of some settlers. When a post office was established in 1818 or 1820, it was given the name Fairview for its hilltop location. Pugh had the town incorporated but residents objected to the taxation required for a municipal government and it was rescinded. In 1912 the postmaster, whose mails sometimes went astray to another ...
CAIRO (AP) — The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports. The strait is closed until the ...
EAST LIVERPOOL — Students at LaCroft Elementary School started their school day off Friday morning with some special visitors who came to speak with them about how to use 911. Herman Potts, administrator, St. Clair Township Police Department and board member for the East Liverpool High ...
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, the Republican who represents the area, has a significant financial advantage over every challenger, raising six figures in the year’s first quarter, with no one else coming close. Most of the money raised came from political action committees. Many of the candidates running in the May 5 primaries for their political party nominations for the seats held by Rulli did not file first-quarter financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. That means they failed to raise or spend at least $5,000 during the first three months of the ...
