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NEW PHILADELPHIA – The Tuscarawas County Coroner’s Office has identified the body found in a fenced lot on Maple Avenue Northwest in New Philadelphia on Sunday as 36-year-old Bryant Sullivan of Dennison. The cause and manner of death are still pending, but investigator Rachel Fetty says they do not suspect […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Dover and New Philadelphia officials want the cities to split the cost of a new $400,000 armored vehicle. New Philadelphia Safety Director Kevin Milligan says the combined Dover-New Philadelphia SWAT team is increasingly finding itself in dangerous situations, with nine officer-involved shootings in the county since 2019 […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A 50-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on US 250 in Tuscarawas County near the Harrison County border Monday afternoon. The New Philadelphia Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the woman was traveling westbound in a 2003 Cadillac Deville around 3:18 p.m. when […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The woman accused of drowning her 4-year-old son and driving her other kids into the water on a golf cart at Atwood Lake is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity to murder and other charges. 40-year-old Ruth Miller of Millersburg is represented by Cleveland attorney Ian […]

DOVER – Mayor Shane Gunnoe says housing permit requests for the year are well above the norm. Gunnoe says building requests this year are at about five times the city’s average. The in-progress Crimson Cove subdivision in north Dover has something to do with that, with nine permits to date […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Investigators are working to identify a dead body found in New Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. A caller notified police around 4:45 p.m. of a possible deceased person near the 1100 block of Maple Avenue NW, in a high brush area. Chief Tessa Pohovey says arriving officers and detectives […]

NEW PHILADLEPHIA – A 64-year-old Bowerston woman injured in a crash on Aug. 10 died from her injuries on Thursday. The State Highway Patrol says Dawn Coleman was driving a 1994 Ford Taurus that was hit on the driver’s side by a 2012 Nissan Rogue at the intersection of County […]

DOVER – City officials are tired of seeing Dumpsters in the streets for extended periods of time, so they’re doing something about it. City Council is considering permit requirements, fines and other regulations to limit where and how long roll-off containers and Dumpster containers can stay in front of a […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Former Uhrichsville Mayor Mark Haney has entered not guilty pleas to charges accusing him of receiving improper compensation. Haney had an arraignment hearing on Wednesday in the courtroom of Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Thomakos, who read the four counts from a July 11th Grand […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The mother charged with murder in the drowning death of her 4-year-old son at Atwood Lake is in the Tuscarawas County Jail. Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell says 40-year-old Ruth Miller of Millersburg was moved to the jail from a hospital on Monday. No bail has been […]