A baseball league for players with special needs will draw hundreds to Dover City Park this weekend.The Challenger Baseball state tournament is on Saturday and Sunday, with 34 teams and nearlym400 players from 10 leagues from across Ohio. Event organizer...

State Highway Patrol officials are commending drivers for how they handled the extended fourth of July weekend on local roads.New Philadelphia Post Commander Lt. Johnnie Maier says his troopers responded to 13 crashes in Tuscarawas and Carroll counties...

The latest housing development proposal for Dover is a step closer but still months away from construction after the city’s planning commission approved the annexation of about 33 acres near the city’s north border Tuesday.The proposal from Lawver Homes...

A 67-year-old man reported missing on July 4th in Pennsylvania turned up in a hayfield the next day 125 miles away in Tuscarawas County naked, agitated and in need of help.Reports from the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office say the man had mental health...

Tuscarawas County's Sheriff says it does not appear charges will be likely in last week's tragic incident where a one-year-old girl was killed by the family's pit bull.This happened at a Dover Township home July 2nd. Orvis Campbell says the girl's mother,...

The New Philadelphia Municipal Court building now has a Naloxbox for those interested in picking up the opioid overdose reversal medication or information.City Health Commissioner Nicole Bache says the box is available right outside the probation...

New Philadelphia Police last week used a taser to take down a theft suspect who threw a hatchet toward them.Captain David Morris says Walmart reported an extremely agitated man stole a baseball bat and threatened to blow up the store on Thursday, July 3rd....

No one was reportedly injured during a July 4th structure fire on Oldtown Valley Road SW.The call came in just before midnight and on arrival, crews found a one-story wood frame home. York Township Fire Department Chief Mark Beitzel says the blaze...

Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Officials' Independence Day weekend was full of tense and sometimes tragic moments, including the death of a Rush Township man.He was working under a vehicle at his home on State Route 258. Sheriff Orvis Campbell says it appears...

Paving is expected to begin in the early part of July in the City of Uhrichsville.Mayor Jim Zucal says paving costs will be close to a quarter million dollars."We're going to have a very aggressive paving. We're dipping into our general paving fund....