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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 PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 8, 2025) – The Millersburg woman jailed for her 4-year-old son’s drowning death at Atwood Lake last month makes her first court appearance on new charges today. The Tuscarawas County Grand Jury handed down a seven-count indictment late last week against 40-year-old Ruth Miller. A conviction […]

STRASBURG (WJER) (Sept. 8, 2025) – The village’s new police chief is actively still trying to bring on one more member to the force with student safety in mind. Randy Haugh says after recently adding a sergeant, the department is now accepting applications for the position of school resource officer. […]

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 […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Sept. 5, 2025)  – A grand jury has now indicted the mother jailed for the drowning death of her four-year-old son at Atwood Lake on August 23rd. The charges in the new seven-count indictment against 40-year-old Ruth Miller of Millersburg include aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, endangering […]

GOSHEN TWP (WJER) (Sept. 4, 2025) – New Philadelphia firefighters say a fire caused about $150,000 in damage to a house in the 200 block of Fork Road Southeast Wednesday afternoon. Nobody was injured. Fire Captain Robert Snyder says a neighbor working outside discovered it shortly before 4 p.m. and […]