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NEWCOMERSTOWN – A Dog Road house is a total loss after a late morning fire Tuesday, but nobody was hurt. Newcomerstown Fire Chief Jeff Parks says crews responded to a garage fire that had spread to the attached home in the 15000 block of Dog Road SW just after 11:30 […]

DOVER – The city’s mayor says the city’s power plant is saving its residents money on their electric bills. Shane Gunnoe says having a city-owned electricity supplier has kept rates down despite inflation. “Due to increased plant performance and efficiency, the city of Dover’s residential customers actually have seen their […]

DOVER – It’s out with the old and in with the new at city offices. Dover is auctioning off some well-used items and trading in some old police handguns while welcoming a few new vehicles and preparing to move City Hall. The items being auctioned off through govdeals.com include old […]

DOVER – The city will soon welcome a pair of new housing developments and more than 60 new homes. Groundbreaking for the 30-home Crimson Cove subdivision in north Dover was Friday. Dover Mayor Shane Gunnoe says Lawver Homes has all the necessary approvals to begin construction off East Ohio Avenue […]

DOVER – A Dover High School graduate won a Grammy this past weekend. Josh Quillen, 45, a 1998 Dover grad, won the award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance as part of the group ‘So Percussion’ for their album “Rectangles and Circumstance” with five-time Grammy winning singer-composer Caroline Shaw. “Just […]

MIDVALE – Area officials and the Tuscarawas County community continue to heap praise on the history-making state champion Indian Valley High School football team. The Braves in December became the first county school to win a football state championship in the OHSAA tournament era that started in 1972. Midvale Village […]

DOVER – Police say a drunk driver led troopers on a chaotic high-speed chase into Dover early Saturday morning, striking another vehicle, a tree and a house and losing a tire before escaping on foot. State Highway Patrol Sgt. Clinton Armstrong said the pursuit started on I-77 around 1:30 a.m. […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The trial of a man accused of attacking a Dover gas station attendant with a hammer is on hold indefinitely as he undergoes a sanity evaluation. Police say 39-year-old John McNutt on Dec. 9 attempted to rob the Wooster Avenue Speedway, hitting the female clerk in the […]

DOVER – Police say a drunk driver who fled the scene of a fender-bender in New Philadelphia ended up in someone’s front yard in Dover where he threw up on himself before going to jail. Court records show Police have charged the 27-year-old Dover man with six misdemeanors, including OVI, […]

DOVER – Longtime Crimson Tornado Football Coach Dan Ifft’s “right-hand man” is the team’s new head coach. The Dover Board of Education Monday unanimously approved Dover High School teacher and coach Matt Rees as the new head coach for the Crimson Tornado football team out of 27 applicants. An assistant […]