Portage and Wayne counties are laying off sheriff's deputies to save money - moves that will have a major effect on public safety, the sheriffs warn.

He didn't participate, but he did laugh at times, and often he did nothing to stop the repeated ribbing that culminated in the ending of one life and left him with a lifetime of regrets for not doing more to intervene.

Although it happened in a tiny burg in southeast Wayne County, the murder of a Maysville woman was voted the biggest story of 2009 by staff members at The Daily Record.

Police are looking for a white male suspect following the robbery of a Wooster branch of the Apple Creek Banking Co.

Photo By Joel Troyer photos/www.buydrphotos.com Jessica Chakey helps her daughter, Madison, with an art project during a Santaa s Workshop on Saturday.

The Wayne County Health Department will have its final seasonal flu clinic for this season Monday in Creston, while H1N1 flu clinics are scheduled through Nov.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Photo By Joel Troyer photos/www.buydrphotos.com Arden Boyer , Nevin Troyer and Al Groover salute the flag during the Veterans Day ceremony at the Wayne County fairgrounds Wednesday.

There was excitement everywhere when the Ashtabula Mall - now Ashtabula Towne Square - opened in 1992.

BERLIN -- The fifth annual Bluegrass & Country Gospel Music Celebration will take place at 6 p.m. Nov.

Pierce Township police arrested a man Tuesday who is suspected of stealing copper grounding wire from a half-dozen Duke Energy substations in Clermont County.

To those driving by the Central American Medical Outreach headquarters on Wedgewood Avenue, it might have looked for all the world like a full-scale barn raising was going on.

Wire Thefts Police in Pierce Township have arrested and charged a man in a serious of dangerous thefts of heavy copper wires used for high voltage grounding.

Some law enforcement agencies are concerned about the potential fallout a 13-percent cut to road patrol services could cause, while others say they are in a wait-and-see period before reacting to the reduction.

The Clermont County Sheriff's department continues to investigate a claim by a 9-year-old girl that a man tried to abduct her near her home on Tuesday evening.

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Police in Clermont County are investigating a possible attempted abduction. The grandmother of a 9-year-old girl told police that the girl was pulled into the woods by an unknown male; however, the girl was able to break away from the man and run home.

Bond was set Monday at $152,500 for a Marietta College student accused of stabbing an area man early Sunday in an apparent robbery attempt.

Bond was set today for a Marietta College student accused of stabbing a man early Sunday morning, but the suspect might still have to wait a while before trying to post bail.

A Marietta College student was charged early Sunday with stabbing a local resident in an attempted robbery, according to police.

A Wayne County Common Pleas Court Jury Tuesday returned a guilty verdict against a woman for the murder of her boyfriend's wife in June in the Village of Apple Creek.