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Columbia Gas holds family fun event
Playing on Portsmouth’s rich baseball heritage, Columbia Gas of Ohio will be holding an event for families Thursday, April 20 from 6-8 p.m. at t...
Body found in river
Authorities now begin the arduous task of identifying the person whose body has been pulled from the Ohio River. Around 2:30 p.m., Friday, local men w...
The sex trade
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s Office warns that human trafficking is a multibillion dollar a year industry that preys on the most vulnerab...
Upwards of 50 overdoses here
Scioto County has experienced an influx of overdoses since the beginning of April.“It started weekend before last and accumulated through that w...
Local racer gets dream shot
May 28 is the day Zach Veach’s dream will come true. The day can’t come fast enough—and Veach wants to go really fast on that partic...
April 14th, 2017 updated: April 14th, 2017. |
SSU nationally ranked on Princeton Review
Shawnee State University is nationally ranked on The Princeton Review’s Top 50 undergraduate schools to study Game Design for the seventh year i...
Speaking out on heroin
Scioto County may have battled through the years of pill mills and prescription pain pill abuse, but the streets of this crippled community continue t...
April 13th, 2017 updated: April 13th, 2017. |
Working together for CHIP grant
Last year, a controversy arose when a joint filing by Scioto County and the city of Portsmouth for a Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) gran...
Diversion sentencing?
One of the major problems facing Scioto County is the overcrowding of the Scioto County Jail on a somewhat regular basis. The capacity of the jail is ...
Ohio AG offers Piketon murder update
Though there was not a lot of new information, reporters learned a couple of focal points of the now-year-long investigation into the murders of eight...
