CRIME & SAFETY
Man stabbed in local home, dies at hospital
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (WTRF) Steubenville Police are investigating a homicide. Just before 11:45 pm Wednesday night Police were dispatched to a residence in the 800 block of Oakmont Avenue for a call of a subject stabbed. When officers arrived on scene they saw a 58-year-old man stabbed in the home. Steubenville Fire and EMS transported the […]
UPDATE: Steubenville police identify victim in Wednesday night stabbing homicide
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — Steubenville police have released the name of the victim of a Wednesday night homicide. Police say 58-year-old Bruce W. Flieger, of Jewett, was stabbed and later was pronounced dead at the hospital. Officers were called around 11:45 to a residence at 801 Oakmont Avenue. Police...
Woman killed in crash after vehicle strikes a concrete footer; Charges pending for male driver
A woman is dead after a vehicle she was in crashed. Officials say they were called to a single vehicle accident at the intersection of Veterans drive and Main Street in Follansbee, WV where the vehicle which was traveling north on Main Street had left the roadway and struck a concrete footer supporting a metal […]
Ohio man pleads guilty to 2021 shooting death of “Tink”
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (WTRF) — A Steubenville man pleaded guilty on Thursday in the 2021 shooting death of a man who sitting on the steps of a property on Pennsylvania avenue, according to media partner Herald-Star. Herald-Star reports that 31-year-old Michaelis M. Forster pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter with specifications that he’d […]
Sunset Boulevard crash injures two in Steubenville
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A two-vehicle car crash snarled traffic Wednesday evening on Sunset Boulevard in Steubenville close to Tim Horton’s. Steubenville Fire Department Captain Justin Boley said one victim from each vehicle was transported to Trinity Medical Center West with non-life threatening injures. The cause of the crash...
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