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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP – State Highway Patrol investigators believe a medical issue and not a car crash killed a 57-year-old Dundee woman who drove her car across the road and into a guardrail after leaving her driveway Wednesday afternoon. New Philadelphia Post Commander Lieutenant Johnnie Maier says the accident happened around […]

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP – The State Highway Patrol is still investigating a fatal, one-vehicle crash that happened Wednesday afternoon. The State Highway Patrol says a 57-year-old Dundee woman died following the crash on State Route 93 near milepost 13 in Franklin Township Wednesday at approximately 2:25 p.m. The gray 2006 Honda […]

DOVER – The American Red Cross this week honored a Dover Police Officer for saving a man’s life in August. (See the video here: https://youtu.be/-2FXAETuVQg?si=ORJmKkWqVUpV2QRQ) Local Red Cross Director Kim Kroh presented Patrolman Ryan Porter with the American Red Cross Lifesaving Award for Professional Responders for his actions on Aug. 19 […]

DOVER – The Ohio State Buckeyes football team has extended their season with a pair wins in the College Football Playoffs. That has also extended the time for Dover High graduate Clayton Callender to lead the Ohio State University Marching Band as Head Drum Major. The university junior is in […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Area law enforcement enjoyed a relatively uneventful New Year’s holiday. State Highway Patrol Sgt. Clinton Armstrong says the New Philadelphia Post had no OVI arrests in Tuscarawas or Carroll counties. He thanked the public for finding designated drivers and obeying traffic laws. The Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (December 30, 2024) – The Tuscarawas County Soap Box Derby will carry on, but for the first time in four decades it will be without longtime director Tim Hiller. Hiller passed away Thursday, Dec. 26, at the age of 66. He had been in declining health recently. https://www.tolandherzig.com/obituaries/timothy-hiller […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The State Highway Patrol has located the suspected driver who fled the scene of a fatal crash on I-77 near Strasburg in October. Sgt. William Bower says they are not publicly identifying the 59-year-old Cleveland man at this time, but they believe he drove the red semi-tractor […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The two assailants in a February assault will spend time in jail for the attack that authorities described as a road rage incident. Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Thomakos Tuesday sentenced Wyatt Shaw, 20, of Gnadenhutten to 60 days in jail and Landon Levengood, 19, […]

DOVER (December 12, 2024) – Police say the gas station clerk who was attacked with a hammer Monday evening fought back and escaped the store to avoid more serious injuries. The suspect, 39-year-old John McNutt, is in the Tuscarawas County Jail on several charges, including attempted murder and felonious assault, […]