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BOLIVAR (WTUZ ) (Sept. 11, 2025)  – Excavation is continuing on the grounds of Fort Laurens to map out where a portion of Ohio’s only Revolutionary War fort will be reconstructed. The original fort was built in 1778 but abandoned just months later. Historical site director Tammi Shrum says archeologists […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 8, 2025) – The Millersburg woman jailed for her 4-year-old son’s drowning death at Atwood Lake last month makes her first court appearance on new charges today. The Tuscarawas County Grand Jury handed down a seven-count indictment late last week against 40-year-old Ruth Miller. A conviction […]

STRASBURG (WJER) (Sept. 8, 2025) – The village’s new police chief is actively still trying to bring on one more member to the force with student safety in mind. Randy Haugh says after recently adding a sergeant, the department is now accepting applications for the position of school resource officer. […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 5, 2025)  – A grand jury has now indicted the mother jailed for the drowning death of her four-year-old son at Atwood Lake on August 23rd. The charges in the new seven-count indictment against 40-year-old Ruth Miller of Millersburg include aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, endangering […]

GOSHEN TWP (WJER) (Sept. 4, 2025) – New Philadelphia firefighters say a fire caused about $150,000 in damage to a house in the 200 block of Fork Road Southeast Wednesday afternoon. Nobody was injured. Fire Captain Robert Snyder says a neighbor working outside discovered it shortly before 4 p.m. and […]

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 […]