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DOVER (WJER) (Aug. 14, 2024) – The Tuscarawas County Health Department says it has been notified about a mosquito sample testing positive for West Nile virus for the sixth time now this summer. The most recent positive sample was collected July 30th in the 200 block of Jefferson Street In […]

COLUMBUS (WTUZ) (Aug. 13. 2024) – A local coalition is getting to serve as an example for others in the state when it comes to combating human trafficking. At his recent 5th annual Human Trafficking Summit in Columbus, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recognized Tusc Against Trafficking for its work […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WTUZ) (Aug. 12, 2024)  – It is the big week for Dress-A-Child participants. Qualifying families in the back-to-school clothing assistance program can pick up their gift cards beginning Wednesday. Dress-A-Child Co-Chair Brenda Jenkins says there was an application process based on household income and other factors. Wednesday’s pickups […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WTUZ) (Aug. 12, 2024)  – We’re now less than a month away from the new season at the Kent Tusc Performing Arts Center. It kicks off September 8th with ‘The Docksiders – America’s Favorite Yacht Rock Band.’  That’s at 7:30 pm and will take showgoers on a cruise […]

Tuscarawas Co. (WJER) (Aug. 1, 2024) – Local athletic directors are expressing support for the new state law that requires automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, to be placed in nearly every school and sports venue in Ohio. New Philadelphia’s Tim Fortney says this follows Lindsay’s Law, which was passed in […]

CANTON (WJER) (July 25, 2024) – Stark County sheriff’s officials have confirmed that skeletal remains of an apparent homicide victim found near an oil well site in the southern part of that county in 2020 were those of a missing Dover man. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joined the Stark […]

DOVER (WJER) (July 23, 2024) – Dover firefighters say they were called to stand by after a tree service company accidentally ruptured a gas line outside a house due to improper markings. There were no injuries. The incident happened in the 100 block of East 11th Street at about 6 […]

DOVER (WJER) (July 23, 2024) – The Healthy Tusc collaborative is working to get more Tuscarawas County adults – particularly men – to fill out its Community Health Needs Assessment before time runs out. The anonymous online survey that runs through July 31st can be found through the link near […]

GNADENHUTTEN (WJER) (July 22, 2024) – An Indian Valley educator is now in the running for the Ohio Board of Education’s 2025 Teacher of the Year award for the entire state. High school social studies teacher Aaron Davis has been selected as the board’s teacher of the year for District […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (July 22, 2024) – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal incident on I-77 south near Bolivar Sunday morning involving a pedestrian who was struck and killed. New Philadelphia Post Trooper Roy Beach says the victim, 34-year-old Jonathan Mandala of Akron, apparently walked onto the […]