Franklin Furnace News

Failing to show up for court appearances and testing positive for pot use when you finally do will get you jail time, a South Point woman discovered Wednesday.

Rock Hill school board members will interview the last of seven hopefuls for the district's next superintendent when they meet in special session this afternoon at the high school - but there has been one change in the lineup.

It's a unique inheritance that has been handed down through a single family for the past 300 years.

Strong storms accompanied by gusty winds and deadly lightning pounded most of Lawrence County Tuesday and early Wednesday resulting in flash floods and extensive damage.

By DEBORAH DANIELS PDT Staff Writer A rare opportunity to see a performance by Herrmanna s Royal Lippizzan Stallions is coming to Franklin Furnace.

A significant page in the 160 year political history of the city turned last week when longtime clerk of council Janet Hieronimus announced her retirement from the post she has held for the past 27 years.

On June 13 the CHEZ BUSHWICK series CAKE will feature an "anti-panel" on "interdisciplinarity" called BALKANIZATION.

At first blush, a series of sweeping corrections reforms proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland would seem to be good ideas, but there is large concern about the potential impact on local communities.

By RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY PDT Staff Writer Scioto County Detectives arrested a Minford resident on behalf of Bethesda Ohio Police Friday, after he allegedly participated in a sexually explicit online conversation with what he believed was an underage girl.

Two days ago Green Local Schools Superintendent Ron Lindsey talked to Daily Times reporter Frank Lewis about the structural problems plaguing Green Primary School, a 60-year-old building located in Franklin Furnace.

Several people were arraigned Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. Robert Prince, 32, of Franklin Furnace, was arraigned on one count of theft.

He ran out of luck while running from the law. Eugene Walmsley, 28, of St. Inkster, Mich., one of two men who skipped town last year to avoid trial on drug charges, was arraigned Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court on one count of failure to appear.

Three men are now charged with robbing a cigarette store on New Year's Day. The Greenup County Sheriff's Department arrested Benny Kilgore and Robert Jones of Franklin Furnace and James Bailey of Coal Grove.

By RYAN SCOTT OTTNEY PDT Staff Writer As requests for stimulus money begin pouring into the state, local schools are also standing in line for their share of the $170 million requested by Scioto County.

A Greenup County Grand Jury has indicted three Ohio in connection with the New Year's Day robbery of a Greenup County cigarette store.

The Scioto County Sheriffa s Office has made an arrest and confiscated numerous firearms and several thousand dollars in cash in the process.

It was the state of Lawrence County that was on the table as the Chamber of Commerce met for its 4th Friday Luncheon.

By FRANK LEWIS PDT Staff Writer A Scioto County man who faces 40 charges including multiple rape charges, and has been a fugitive since the charges were filed in 2003, has been taken into custody.

Reconfigured robotic toys performing military maneuvers in rigid choreographed formations are featured in a new artistic work, "A Re-enactment of The Battle of the Pyramids," by New York City College of ...

An Ohio man was being held without bond Friday at the Washington County Detention Center on a number of charges, including first-degree rape and second-degree rape.