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NEW PHILADELPHIA – The city’s police chief is part of a statewide missing persons task force. Tessa Pohovey is one of two city police chiefs, the other being Dayton’s Kamran Afzal, on the 22-member Missing Persons Working Group. Gov. Mike DeWine’s office says the group will look for ways to […]

DOVER – It won’t be easy to replace a Hall of Fame football coach with 247 wins in 30 seasons at Dover High School. That isn’t stopping more than two dozen people from trying. Superintendent Karie McCrate says 27 people have applied for the vacant head football coaching job at […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The Tuscarawas County Courthouse will host the Ohio Mock Trial district competition Friday. County offices will remain open, but five court rooms will be reserved for students from six schools looking to advance to regionals in February. Probate and Juvenile Court Judge Adam Wilgus oversees the local […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – School district officials are bringing the community inside their buildings while again asking voters to help fund new ones. The School Board Monday approved putting a 5.9-mill, $72 million bond issue and 1-mill permanent improvement levy on the May ballot. It would raise taxes to build a […]

SUGARCREEK – State Highway Patrol investigators believe they have found the pickup truck that drove through a cemetery Saturday, damaging several headstones. Post Commander Lt. Johnnie Maier says it happened around 8:50 a.m. at Union Hill Cemetery as the pickup truck was driving northbound on Ragersville Road. He says weather-related […]

SUGARCREEK – No one was hurt, but a large piece of equipment sustained hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage in an electrical fire at the Belden Brick Plant 2 in Sugarcreek early Thursday morning. Sugarcreek Fire Chief John Meek was first on the scene. He says he encountered a […]

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 […]