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New Boston Police Capt. Steve Goins tapes off a perimeter around Desco Thursday morning after employees discovered it had been robbed overnight.
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Desco Federal Credit Union, in New Boston, was closed Thursday as New Boston police investigated an overnight robbery. According to New Boston Police Capt. Steve Goins, someone broke the window fa...
Miles Ferguson Not GuiltyNot guilty. That was the verdict returned by a Horry County, S.C., jury after a short deliberation Wednesday in the case of Portsmouth resident, Miles Ferguson. The 27-year-old father was accused ...
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Plans For New Building Topic For New Boston School BoardThe New Boston School Board will meet with the newly appointed director of the Ohio School Facilities Commission ( OSFC ) during its regular meeting tonight to discuss plans for the new school bui...
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Prescription Drug Problem
To Be Addressed At Town Hall MeetingAccording to information presented Oct. 21 at the Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemic regional meeting held at the Scioto County Welcome Center, in 2008, Scioto County was number two per capita in...
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Sciotoville Overpass
Project Has New TimetableMotorists who regularly travel the Sciotoville overhead will be inconvenienced a little longer than originally planned. “I found out yesterday (Tuesday) from speaking with a representative from O...
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Breaking News: Miles Ferguson Found Not GuiltyA jury delivered the verdict of not guilty Wednesday in the case of a Portsmouth man charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of his 5-week-old daughter in August 2007 while the family wa...
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Valley Twp. Authorities Respond To
Mismanagement AccusationsValley Township authorities have responded to charges that the clerk and trustees are not letting the fire department and EMS utilize $150,000 they say was earmarked for their use. “Yes, there i...
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week is completing a $200,000 cleanup project at Scioto Sanitation landfill in Wheelersburg, and advises nearby residents to have their well wate...
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A ruling in Scioto County Common Pleas Court in April that set aside the results of a special election, has been reversed by the Ohio Supreme Court. In February 2009, voters passed an amendment to...
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The 70th Annual Portsmouth Jaycees Christmas Parade will be Thursday, marking the official kick-off of the holiday season in Scioto County. Some may think it’s too early, but Leroy Hackworth, of th...
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A $90,000 project which began last week in the North Moreland area of Portsmouth will save taxpayers money and meet a request by the EPA at the same time. Manholes in that area, many of which are...
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It will come as no surprise to law enforcement in Scioto County and Greenup, Ky., that 90 percent of the license plates on the parking lot of a Columbus pharmacy, shut down by the Drug Enforcement ...
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Building a $300,000 two-lane bridge to serve a one-lane dirt road that has nobody living on it at all makes no sense at all, Scioto County resident Bob Morton said of the Knapp Road bridge, which c...
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