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NEW PHILADELPHIA – A 46-year-old Bolivar man and a 37-year-old New Philadelphia woman are in jail as co-defendants in a grand jury indictment involving the trafficking, prostitution and rape of a 13-year-old. David Harper faces seven felony counts, including rape. Elsie Bihlman faces six felony counts, including trafficking in persons, […]

DOVER – City officials celebrated Autism Acceptance Month on Monday with a Mayoral proclamation and a rousing speech from a Challenger Baseball League representative. First, Mayor Shane Gunnoe welcomed players and parents from Tuscarawas County Challenger Baseball, a league that includes players with special needs of all ages. He read […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A half dozen Tuscarawas County roads that flood every spring are flooding again. Tuscarawas County Engineer Doug Bachman announced six road closures Monday morning because of high water. Those roads are Smokey Lane, Winklepleck and Golf Course roads in Sugarcreek, and Deuber, Sandyville and Somerdale roads in […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A New Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and other charges stemming from an August crash that killed a passenger in the car he was driving while intoxicated. Janesh Cabrera-Vargas, 37,  agreed to the plea deal on Monday, the day before a scheduled jury […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A Tuscarawas County robbery suspect who was on the run for five years will serve four years in prison for stealing a car and a gun back in June 2020. Nicholas Bosna, 35, in February pleaded guilty to robbery, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Uhrichsville’s former mayor will be barred from serving in public office for seven years but avoided a permanent ban by pleading guilty to lesser charges eight months after the Tuscarawas County Grand Jury indicted him for theft in office. Mark Haney, who was Uhrichsville’s mayor from 2019 […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Tuscarawas County’s Sheriff is imploring motorcycle riders to wear their helmets after a pair of fatal crashes with 24 hours of each on the first two days of spring. A 38-year-old Strasburg woman was killed on March 20 when the motorcycle she was operating crashed into an […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Another convincing-looking scam has made its way into Tuscarawas County. In this one, the scammer texts an official-looking fake summons notifying the recipient of a parking violation in Columbus and asks the victim to scan a QR code to settle an unpaid balance. Some of the signs […]

DOVER – A city police officer has resigned after an investigation into misconduct alleged to have occurred while he was on duty back in January. Dover officials had intended to terminate Officer Ryan Porter last week, but he resigned first. In a March 23rd letter to Porter, City Safety Director […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The New Philadelphia School Board will vote on a contract for the district’s next superintendent at a special meeting on Wednesday, March 25, at 4 p.m. at the Front Street administration building. Carole Sutton would receive a 3-year contract at $151,000 a year. That contract would start […]