A Franklin Furnace resident was given a 23-28.5-year prison sentence following a four-day jury trial in front of Judge Mark Kuhn of the Scioto County Court of Common Pleas concluding on Feb. 23.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman reports that on Saturday, Feb. 17 at approximately 1:45 p.m., a female called requesting a deputy stand by while she retrieved items from her residence in South Webster.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman states that on Tuesday, Feb. 6, the Portsmouth Police Department was dispatched to an apartment in Portsmouth after the 911 communication center received a call of an unresponsive infant.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman states that his office received a 911 call from a woman Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 2:06 a.m. The caller alleged that her ex-boyfriend just kicked in the door of her residence and sliced her tires with a knife after assaulting people at the residence. He then allegedly forced another woman, with a small child, into a car to drive him away from the area.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman announced Friday that three individuals have been arrested on drug and weapon charges following a traffic stop on Cook Road in Lucasville.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman states that one of his detectives received a call Jan. 15 from an adult probation officer. The adult probation officer reported that they received information that an adult male, age 35, was allegedly talking inappropriately over social media to a middle school student.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman reports that his 911 communication center received a call Thursday, Jan. 11 at 11:55 a.m. from a woman claiming that she just found her daughter deceased, covered in blood, on the floor of her friend’s home.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman reports that on Sunday, Jan. 7, the 911 communication center received a call from alleging that two juveniles had been sexually assaulted. The caller advised that both juveniles were under the age of 10.
Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman states that on Friday, Jan. 5, the 9-1-1 communication center received a call at 1:12 p.m. from a residence on Houston Hollow Road.
The African American Community Fund (AACF) has awarded 31 grants, totaling $175,750, to support Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit and public organizations throughout Appalachian Ohio, including 10 capacity-building grants.
State Senator Terry Johnson (R-McDermott) this week recognized the Scioto Historical Project, created by Dr. Andrew Feight, at the 2023 Appalachia Heritage Luncheon.
Fourteen rural Ohio school districts, and their corresponding counties and townships, will share more than $2.1 million from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Forestry’s Trees to Textbooks program — which distributes revenue from the harvest of timber within Ohio’s state forests.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Jack Marchbanks Tuesday announced an investment of $73.8 million into more than two dozen projects that will reduce the risk of crashes and increase safety on Ohio roads.
The artwork of local seniors was recently showcased at the Area Agency on Aging District 7’s (AAA7) 41st Annual Senior Citizens Art Show that was recently held at Bristol Village’s Glenn Activity Center in Waverly.
