LOCAL NEWS

Take Precautions with Respiratory Illnesses Increasing

The Tuscarawas County Health Department is urging everyone to spread cheer - not germs - over the holidays.Director of promotion and community relations Jennifer Demuth says virus season appears to be ramping up according to data from the Ohio Department...

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FOP Lodge #4 Delivers Gifts to 40 Kids

A caravan of police cruisers traveled from town-to-town Saturday delivering Christmas gifts.Around a dozen law enforcement vehicles packed with presents left the New Philadelphia police station just after 9 am to brighten the holidays for 15 local...

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Commissioner’s Fill Administrator Position

The commissioners didn’t have to look far to fill a new leadership position within the county government. Kris Lowdermilk went from human resources manager to county administrator on Monday but still works out of the same office next to the commissioner’s...

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Tips to Keep Porch Packages Safe

Take time to protect delivered packages during this busy time of year.Strasburg police Chief Dave Warrick is warning everyone about a crime that happens more often this time of year.  He says it’s the season for ‘porch pirates’ so be on the lookout for...

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OSP ID’s Suspect in Deadly Hit-Skip

The State Highway Patrol has identified the suspected driver who fled the scene of a fatal crash on I-77 near Strasburg in October.Sgt. William Bower says they are not publicly identifying the 59-year-old Cleveland man at this time, but they believe he...

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2025 Budget Approved by Tuscarawas Commissioners

The commissioners have finalized Tuscarawas County’s 2025 spending plan.The board on Monday approved just over 37-million-dollars in general fund expenses for the New Year or about 4.4-million less than projected revenue.President Kristen Zemis says the...

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Grand Jury to Hear Robbery, Assault Case

A grand jury will now consider formal charges against the suspect in last week’s speedway gas station robbery where the clerk was attacked. 39-year-old john a. McNutt waived his preliminary hearing in New Philadelphia Municipal Court Wednesday on charges...

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Dennison Man to Serve Time for Voyeurism, Other Charges

The suspect in a voyeurism and child pornography case out of Dennison is heading to prison.Danny Quillin will spend the next 4 to 6 years behind bars for secretly recording minors in a state of undress with a cell phone he hid inside a bathroom.Tuscarawas...

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Sherrod Brown Makes Final Floor Speech

Outgoing Ohio democratic U.S. senator Sherrod Brown is vowing to keep standing up for the American worker.That was the theme as brown, who lost to republican Bernie Moreno in November’s election, delivered his final floor speech this week. Brown says he’s...

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Sentence Issued in Road Rage Assault

The two assailants in a February assault in New Philadelphia will spend time in jail for the attack that authorities described as a road rage incident.Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Thomakos Tuesday sentenced 20-year-old Wyatt Shaw of...

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