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DOVER (WJER) (Sept. 3, 2025) – State troopers say the pickup truck that crashed into the front of the Hog Heaven of Dover restaurant Labor Day afternoon was not the at-fault vehicle. Trooper Matthew Clapper Says the Ram 3500 pickup truck that hit the restaurant swerved to avoid an oncoming […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 2, 2025) – Mayor Joel Day is inviting the public to the first New Philadelphia Multicultural Festival in the city’s downtown this weekend. Day says the NPact non-profit organization is hosting the free event from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday outside the Lacey Performing Arts Center […]

DOVER (WJER ) (Aug. 29, 2025) – A Thursday evening police call about a shooting at a Dover home turned out to be fake. Detective Captain Chad Mowrer described it as a swatting call, a prank where someone calls 9-1-1 and makes up a story to get police to show […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 27, 2025) – The man who New Philadelphia Police say fled from a crash that killed his passenger early Saturday morning has waived a preliminary hearing in New Philadelphia Municipal Court. A grand jury will now consider whether to indict 37-year-old Janesh Cabrera Vargas – who […]

Mineral City (WJER) (Aug. 24, 2025) – Authorities have been trying to piece together a tragic series of events that resulted in the deaths of two members of a Holmes County Amish family at Atwood Lake Park on Saturday.   The bodies of a four-year-old boy and his father were recovered […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 24, 2025) – Buckeye Career Center has kicked off the new school year by celebrating the opening of its new medical training facility for students with some high-profile guests. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine cut the ribbon on the $6 million addition […]

ZOARVILLE (WJER) (Aug. 24, 2025) – Family members say a Tusky Valley football player suffered a paralyzing spinal injury during the team’s first game of the season Friday night at Waynedale.  Mayson White was carted off the field following a collision in the second quarter of the game and taken […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 24, 2025) – New Philadelphia police say alcohol and speed are believed to be factors in a single-vehicle crash early Saturday morning where the driver fled on foot and left behind a dead passenger in the car.   Police say they were able to locate the driver […]

OXFORD TOWNSHIP (WJER) (Aug. 22, 2025) – The State Highway Patrol New Philadelphia Post says a series of crashes on I-77 Thursday afternoon killed an 18-year-old driver. The post has identified the driver who died as Ava Stamets of Mineral City. The crashes took place just south of the Newcomerstown […]