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NEW PHILADELPHIA – A jury has found a Uhrichsville man guilty of attempted aggravated murder and six other felonies in the stalking and shooting of his ex-girlfriend. The 12-person jury deliberated for just over an hour Wednesday afternoon before issuing a guilty verdict against 44-year-old Carl Reynolds on felony counts […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The man accused of attempting to murder a Dover gas station clerk with a hammer last year has been ruled competent to stand trial. He will next undergo a sanity evaluation. John McNutt, 40, back in January pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A Mineral City man was killed after the motorcycle he was driving struck a tree that had fallen across the roadway. The New Philadelphia Highway Patrol Post says the accident happened just after 7 p.m. on Wednesday on County Road 66 in Union Township. The Post reports […]

NEW PHILADLEPHIA – A 21-year-old Canton man is the Tuscarawas County Jail after police say he stole a tow truck and got it stuck in a New Philadelphia cul-de-sac. Hunter Mast is being held on $10,000 bail on charges of felony grand theft of a motor vehicle, OVI and obstructing […]

DOVER – It’s not uncommon to see 86-year-old Keith Van Epps hustling around the track at Crater Stadium on a warm afternoon. The former Dover doctor says regular exercise has been a key to living with Parkinson’s disease for 11 years. Van Epps, his father and his identical twin brother […]

NEW PHILADELPHLIA – A pair of habitual drunk driving offenders from New Philadelphia were recently charged again. The State Highway Patrol says 33-year-old Michael W. Kerhin of New Philadelphia was arrested on August 13th in Goshen Township for OVI and other charges after flipping the 2012 Chrysler 200 sedan he […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – An 11-count grand jury indictment accuses a 53-year-old Dover man of sexually abusing a child for 10 years starting when the child was 4 years old. Christopher Arbogast is in the Tuscarawas County Jail on a $500,000 bond. Last week’s grand jury indictment in Tuscarawas County Common […]

MAGNOLIA – When a vehicle stuck an ODOT truck in a closed work zone in Tuscarawas County Monday, it marked the 94th time ODOT crews and equipment have been struck this year. That number didn’t even stand for 24 hours before an ODOT vehicle was hit for the 95th time […]

DOVER – Nine Tuscarawas County girls varsity basketball coaches spoke at Monday’s Tuscarawas County Girls High School Basketball Preview Night at the Tuscarawas County Senior Center. However, it was New Philadelphia Coach Kevin Cornell who said something that’s likely to make everybody root for the Lady Quakers. “If you come […]

DUNDEE – A crash involving a semi and a trash truck closed state Route 250 north of Strasburg for about an hour and a half and sent one person to the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Ohio State Highway Patrol Sgt. Clinton Armstrong says around 2 p.m. a westbound trash truck on […]