Bellaire Village Council approved appropriations for 2010 during its regular meeting Thursday, eliminating police dispatchers to balance the budget.

Easter Sunday will be the beginning of a new system in Bellaire, Ohio. The police dispatchers, the friendly voices that answer the phone when you call the police, are being eliminated.

Three people were arrested early Wednesday after they allegedly held people at gunpoint while burglarizing their home on West 23rd Street in Bellaire.

Three suspects are in jail and police are looking for another person in connection with a violent home invasion where the occupants were beaten with brass knuckles and held at gunpoint.

TSCHAPPAT, Donald E. "Don", 81, of Brilliant, Ohio, passed away Thursday March 11, 2010, at his home.

A Bellaire police officer was wounded by a pit bull while he was investigating a child who was left home alone.

A city man who sold a shotgun to an undercover police agent in February was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr.

COSHOCTON: Alfred 'Tater' Havelka, 88, of Coshocton, Ohio, passed away on Monday morning, March 1, 2010, at Coshocton Hospital.

Voters in the Bellaire, Buckeye Local, Bridgeport and Shadyside school districts will be asked to pay more for their schools on the May 4 ballot.

MANSFIELD -- When Japanese shells came crashing in, Tech. Sgt. Bill Wilkinson thought the best place to be was a big foxhole the company cooks had dug.

The morning has come. Nothing is worse than 6:30 a.m., a Monday, in winter, with snow up to the eaves.

A new facility in Belmont Community Hospital is designed to provide long-term care for patients with complex medical problems and create new jobs.

The man arrested for allegedly breaking into a Bellaire, Ohio, apartment and firing a gun will have to wait until Feb.

A $4.1 million investment has been made to open Acuity Specialty Hospital's second long-term acute care facility in the area, and the first in the Wheeling area.

Posted Sunday, February 14, 2010 ; 03:05 PM Post Comment Updated Sunday, February 14, 2010; 03:16 PM A Bellaire man is in the Belmont County Jail facing multiple charges.