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NEW PHILADELPHIA – The Amish woman accused of murdering her son at Atwood Lake last month has been ordered to appear in court on Monday, Sept. 29. On that date, Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Ernest will decide whether to establish bail for 40-year-old Ruth Miller, who is […]

COLUMBUS – State report cards are out for Ohio School Districts, and Tuscarawas County districts have all met the state standards. That means they scored at least three stars on a five-star ranking system. Three county school districts exceeded state standards – Tusky Valley, Indian Valley and Garaway. The report […]

DOVER – The Dover City School District has made a financial move to help fund facility improvements that could include new construction in the future. The School Board this week agreed to reallocate 4.4 mills of inside millage – or around $1.5 million to $1.8 million a year – to […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Police believe a medical issue led to a head-on crash on East High Avenue in front of the airport that sent both drivers to the hospital Tuesday afternoon. State Highway Patrol Trooper Travis Adkins says a westbound Mercury Sable went left of center and struck a Jeep […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The Tuscarawas County Coroner’s Office has identified the body found in a fenced lot on Maple Avenue Northwest in New Philadelphia on Sunday as 36-year-old Bryant Sullivan of Dennison. The cause and manner of death are still pending, but investigator Rachel Fetty says they do not suspect […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Dover and New Philadelphia officials want the cities to split the cost of a new $400,000 armored vehicle. New Philadelphia Safety Director Kevin Milligan says the combined Dover-New Philadelphia SWAT team is increasingly finding itself in dangerous situations, with nine officer-involved shootings in the county since 2019 […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A 50-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on US 250 in Tuscarawas County near the Harrison County border Monday afternoon. The New Philadelphia Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the woman was traveling westbound in a 2003 Cadillac Deville around 3:18 p.m. when […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The woman accused of drowning her 4-year-old son and driving her other kids into the water on a golf cart at Atwood Lake is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to murder and other charges. 40-year-old Ruth Miller of Millersburg is represented by Cleveland attorney Ian […]

DOVER – Mayor Shane Gunnoe says housing permit requests for the year are well above the norm. Gunnoe says building requests this year are at about five times the city’s average. The in-progress Crimson Cove subdivision in north Dover has something to do with that, with nine permits to date […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Investigators are working to identify a dead body found in New Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. A caller notified police around 4:45 p.m. of a possible deceased person near the 1100 block of Maple Avenue NW, in a high brush area. Chief Tessa Pohovey says arriving officers and detectives […]