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NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 6, 2022) – The Canton man serving 30 years to life in prison for the shooting death of 22-year-old Gaven Carlisle during a drug robbery last March is now asking to withdraw his plea. 19-year-old Sajjadd Butler made the request in a letter to Tuscarawas County […]
NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 6, 2021) -Tuscarawas County’s parks department is also now managing the Norma Johnson Center. Director Jesse Rothacher says the county recently acquired the portion that had been owned by the local Soil and Water Conservation District. “The conservation district decided to donate the outstanding 63 acres […]
UHRICHSVILLE (WJER) (Jan. 6, 2021) – Former Uhrichsville councilman Robert Baker is fighting for a shot at a seat he claims is being illegally held by another member. Baker is challenging Matt Fox’s appointment as council’s new Ward 1 representative in the Fifth District Court of Appeals. His complaint alleges […]
(AP) (Jan 6, 2022) – Workers for an Ohio-based missionary organization say an unidentified person made a ransom payment that freed three of their kidnapped colleagues from a Haitian gang in early December. That ransom agreement was supposed to have led to the release of all 15 of the North […]
DOVER (WJER) (January 5, 2022) – Mayor Richard Homrighausen has allowed the city’s power plant superintendent to retire with full benefits despite calls from City Council to fire or discipline him. Council President Shane Gunnoe says members have been asking the mayor to fire plant Superintendent Dave Filippi since November. […]
DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 5, 2022) – Tuscarawas County Health Department officials are asking people trying to call their office to be patient if they can’t get through to someone right away. Director of Health Promotions and Community Relations Jennifer Demuth says their phones have been ringing off the hook here […]
DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 5, 2022) – The director of the Dover Public Library is promoting an opportunity for patrons to challenge themselves in the new year. Jim Gill says readers 6 and older who complete a hundred books before the end of 2022 will be invited to join the library’s […]
DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Authorities executed a search warrant at city hall Monday, focusing on the contents of a two-drawer wooden cabinet behind the desk of former administrative assistant Eva Newsome. It was filed by State Auditor Keith Faber’s office represented by Fraud Investigator Kevin Monnolly and signed […]
NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Tuscarawas County leaders are planning to spend around a quarter-million dollars on a body-worn camera system for the sheriff’s office. The purchase is among the capital improvements included in the county’s 2022 budget that the county commissioners approved before Christmas. Sheriff Orvis Campbell […]
DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Tuscarawas County YMCA officials are hoping to see donations to the organization’s yearly fundraising campaign return to their pre-pandemic in the new year. Administrative Assistant Jenny Dallas says their 2021 campaign fell about $3,000 shy of its $85,000 goal. She attributes the shortfall to […]
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