Lucasville News

Thirty-seven-year-old Vernon Smith is slated to die by lethal injection on Thursday, January 7, 2010, for the murder of Sohail Darwish.

A Portsmouth man has been arrested after leading authorities on an 11 mile chase.

Lawrence County residents have an outstanding choice for the 89th Ohio House District in Dr.

Maureen Cadogan, director of the Scioto County Homeless Shelter, accepts a donation from Chuck Smith of Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

Two people were arrested Wednesday in connection with the sale of illegal drugs.

When the appeals process has been exhausted and requests for clemency denied, they come here, to wait in this building of narrow rooms, with yellowing walls and air permeated with the odour of urine and prison kitchen soup.

A car driven by a Scioto County man was pulled over Friday night resulting in the arrest of a Columbus man and confiscation of several drugs.

Killer is executed...Obama: Jobs spending needed...Results could come sooner LUCASVILLE, Ohio Ohio has executed the first person in the U.S. to die by lethal injection with a single drug rather than a three-drug method.

The State Highway Patrol reports that 20-year-old Bryan Howard Virgin of Minford was driving southbound on a Piketon area road shortly before 9am when he failed to negotiate a left curve.

A highly-decorated soldier with ties to the Miami Valley died in a motorcycle accident in California, according to family members.

Ohio killer executed through first US lethal injection using 1 drug, not conventional 3 drugs.

The family members of Tami Engstrom gathered just a few hours before her convicted killer, Kenneth Biros, was scheduled to be executed.

A condemned killer scheduled to become the first person in the U.S put to death with a single drug - in an execution that could take longer than previous procedures arrived Monday at the Ohio death house, 10TV News reported.

The state opted for the new procedure after a botched attempted execution in September.

A highly-decorated soldier and Fairmont High School graduate died in a motorcycle accident in California in late November, according to his family.

The last time Kenneth Biros made the trip to the Death House, he brought a gold cross necklace, a portable compact disc player with some CDs, a rosary and 20 stamped envelopes.

Retired newspaper writer and Scioto County native Dick Burdette of Lexington, Ky., is returning to Portsmouth Saturday to sign copies of his newest book, "The Man Who Limped," a story about a case that was solved, but the mystery wasn't. Burdette will be at Market Street CafA© beginning at 11 a.m. and throughout the afternoon Saturday.

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For the first time in 7 years, news crews were allowed into the Death House at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville where convicted killer Kenneth Biros is set to be the first executed under the state's new lethal injection method.

Investigators in Scioto County are looking for the man who robbed a fast food restaurant.