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Patrol Pushes for Safe Winter Driving

Wintery mixes will soon be here and keeping a few guidelines in mind can help prevent a roadway disaster.Top tips include allowing extras travel time, increasing the following distance, accelerating and decelerating slowly, and to avoid cruise control.Ohio...

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New Philadelphia Police Jail Closing

Beginning next year, the New Philadelphia police department will no longer house inmates.Arrestees used to get locked up inside the police station until they sobered up, got transferred elsewhere, or made their initial court appearance. However, that...

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Scarf Project Under New Leadership

The community-wide scarf giveaways that take place each fall will continue after next year.Scarf Project volunteers have picked the duo of Aimee Rufener and Jeremy Sell to oversee future installments of the initiative. They’ll take over for project founder...

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Departments Called for Morning Blaze

An overnight fire destroyed a detached one-stall garage in the Uhrichsville area overnight. The fire was in the 100 block of north Wardell Street, just inside Mill Township and was reported around 4:45 a.m. Dennison fire chief Dave McConnell says the...

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Rent Scam Discovered in Dover

A man hoping to rent a house is out of an undisclosed amount of money after falling victim to a Facebook scam.He had responded to a post listing an E. Slingluff Avenue home for rent and sent money over the internet to the person in Wisconsin.The property...

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Charges to Follow Gas Station Robbery

Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell is confirming the identity of the suspect arrested in connection with the Dover Speedway gas station robbery Monday night.39-year-old John A. McNutt, who was listed as homeless, was booked into the jail on holder...

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New Phila OSP Releases Thanksgiving Report

The local Thanksgiving weekend was relatively quiet, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol is hoping the year-end holidays will be the same.Statewide traffic fatalities were down, at eight, from the year before, with New Philadelphia Post Lt. Johnnie Maier...

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Attempted Robbery at Dover Gas Station

Dover Police say a clerk at the Speedway gas station on South Wooster Avenue near the fairgrounds was injured during an attempted robbery Monday evening.According to a press release, the female clerk called police to report she had been struck in the head...

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Argument Ends in Stabbing, Charges Possible

Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s officials say a Uhrichsville area man is in the county jail for allegedly stabbing his adult stepson with a hunting knife in attempts to break up an altercation Friday night.Authorities learned about the incident when the...

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