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DOVER – National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday. Locally, unused and unwanted medication can be dropped off confidentially from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital and Trinity Health System Twin City Medical Center. Jeff Neidig with Empower Tusc say that agency promotes the event […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A decades-old case in Tuscarawas County has been solved thanks to new DNA technology. The Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office says investigators have identified dismembered human remains that were found in 1998 in two suitcases in Dover and Jefferson Townships. Using advanced DNA testing, they have determined the […]

DOVER – City officials defended tax incentives they have used to attract businesses and developers after being challenged by a School Board member Monday. Brian Hanner, who said he was speaking in a personal capacity and not as a School Board member, asked Council to find a way to support […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The man who beat a Dover gas station clerk with a hammer back in 2024 will spend 10 to 15 years in prison for the violent, bloody attack. Judge Michael Ernest on Tuesday sentenced 39-year-old John McNutt for attempted murder. He said McNutt hit the clerk 16 […]

NEW PHILADEPHIA – Drivers heading south toward Newcomerstown should plan for delays next week on I-77. On Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., crews will be working to remove loose rocks along the highway. The goal is to scale back the area affected by a rockfall in […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Power was out for nearly 400 customers, including those in the busy Blue Bell Drive business, for about an hour and a half Friday afternoon. According to AEP officials, “there was a transformer outage in a substation serving the New Philadelphia area. Crews continue to investigate the […]

DOVER – The Dover City School District is tearing down buildings near the middle school to make way for expansion, but what that will look like and how it will be funded is unclear. By Friday morning, the former East of Chicago Pizza on North Wooster Avenue was a pile […]

DOVER – Multiple law enforcement agencies worked together to diffuse a potentially dangerous situation on Monday morning. It happened at a residence near the intersections of state Route 39, Saltwell and Red Hill roads in Dover around 10 a.m. Dover Police have provided limited details. The initial 911 call was […]

DOVER – Four new pickleball courts are open to the public after a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday at Dover City Park. Mayor Shane Gunnoe thanked donors and the Reeves Foundation as those $90,000 in donations covered more than half of the roughly $130,000. Gunnoe says that is $80,000 below the estimate. […]

DOVER – The city’s income tax office is putting out one last reminder that all residents with qualifying incomes must file city income taxes this year. Dover Income Tax Administrator Tami McIntyre says filing only takes a couple of minutes at the office at 112 East Fourth Street, behind the […]