The 2024 softball season for the Hillsboro Lady Indians saw them play two very competitive games at the Queen of the Hill event held at Rock Hill High School, where HHS defeated Portsmouth West and fell in a one-run game to the South Webster Lady Jeeps on Saturday. 

The 2024 season for the Whiteoak Wildcats opened with a home doubleheader win against the South Webster Jeeps by scores of 8-7 and 7-2 Saturday, as these two programs won district championships last season. 

There will be a battle of Southeast District champions in the Division IV Regional Semifinals this Tuesday night (March 12) at 8 p.m. when the Fairfield Lions and South Webster Jeeps step onto the court of the Ohio University Bobcats at the Convocation Center in Athens.

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.

On Saturday afternoon (Feb. 10), the Lynchburg-Clay Lady Mustangs finished their regular-season schedule with a convincing 61-49 non-conference win on the road against the South Webster Lady Jeeps.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Wednesday announced the indictment of a South Webster woman on charges of sexual battery.

The Fairfield Lions and South Webster Jeeps played even for two innings in a scoreless game, but the Jeeps scored three runs in the third, and as the innings ticked away, that ended up being enough to defeat the Lions in the Division IV SE District Finals, with Fairfield falling to South Webster by a 4-2 score.

Kyle William Leishear, 43, of Bayonet Point, Fla., was sentenced May 10 to 20 years in prison. On April 25, Leishear’s three co-defendants were sentenced for their roles in a child exploitation enterprise: Christopher William Kuehner, 38, of Bremerton, Wash. was sentenced to 20 years in prison; Jacob Royce Mullins, 20, of South Webster, Ohio, was sentenced to seven years in prison; and Matthew Martin, 25, of Lancaster, Wis., was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.

The Fairfield Lady Lions traveled to Veterans Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe to face the South Webster Jeeps of the Southern Ohio Conference on Monday, and for the second consecutive game, Fairfield's offense failed to produce a timely hit when needed as the Lady Lions (4-3, 1-1 SHAC) fell to the South Webster Jeeps (5-1, 2-1 SOC I) by a score of 6-1.