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By: KDKA-TV News Staff WASHINGTON (KDKA) – On Wednesday, Washington County Sheriffs took a suspect wanted for a felony robbery into custody after he was spotted in the parking lot of a Taco Bell in Washington. According to sheriffs, Chad Smith was wanted by both county sheriffs and City of Washington Police for robbery. He was seen in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the parking lot of the Taco Bell on West Chestnut Street and was ultimately taken into custody. Once Smith was arrested, police also found approximately 10.5 grams of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. He is facing charges of possession with intent to deliver, tampering with evidence, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and flight to avoid apprehension.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, OHIO (KDKA) – A tornado touched down in Wintersville, Ohio, and damaged 25 structures on Thursday night. Wintersville fire chief Rob Herrington said the line of damage is a mile long in the Bantam Ridge Road area. He said the structures damaged include 23 houses, one business and one church. Five of the homes are total losses. (Photo Credit: KDKA) Herrington said many people were in their homes when the twister hit. Thankfully, no one was hurt. The roof of a home in the 800 block of Bantam Ridge Road was torn off and the walls are caving in. On the same street, there were trees on houses, a garage roof on top of a house and more homes with roofs missing. Herrington said a church caught fire, possibly after being hit by lightning. Michelle Moodie lives nearby, and she captured cellphone video when the apparent tornado was forming right before 6 p.m. She said the clouds were rotating, debris was flying around and sparks were flashing as the twister struck what was like power lines and transformers. WATCH: Possible Tornado Hundreds of residents in Jefferson County lost power. Herrington said many power lines came down and crews were removing debris off power lines.

Though vaccine distribution is well underway across the United States, the novel coronavirus continues to spread through the population. To date, there have been 34,256,300 reported cases of the virus nationwide — and that number is growing every day. In the Weirton-Steubenville metropolitan area, which covers parts of West Virginia and Ohio, a total of […]