Lucasville News

COLUMBUS a ' The state parole board will conduct a clemency hearing next week for a man facing execution over the murder of a Hubbard Township woman more than a decade ago.

At press time Monday evening, the Portsmouth Police Department was looking for a suspect in the shooting of Devin Cruz, 20, who reportedly was listed as having a Lucasville address.

The people have spoken! Hundreds gathered outside the Portsmouth Public Library on Wednesday, and at libraries all across the state, in protest of Gov.

Vernon L. Smith faces execution on Ohio's injection gurney Jan. 7 for the 1993 robbery and murder of the owner of a central Toledo carryout.

Grant Lee Malone, age 92, went to be with his wife Bobbie and with his Lord on June 15, 2009, at Reid Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days.

Ohio's first execution of the year went forward yesterday morning, this time with a slight change in the procedure.

Former Springboro police Lt. Jim Barton has turned to the federal courts for relief from his sentence of up to 50 years in prison for his role in his wife's death in April 1995.

While an Ohio man was being executed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville for locking 24 year old Carol Lutz in the trunk of her car and burning her alive, another Ohio man's execution date was being set.

A judge sentenced a southern Ohio hit-and-run driver to 60 days in jail this morning for leaving the scene of an accident that killed a bicyclist riding along Rt.

Camry Carpenter, going on 2, and her father, Ryan Carpenter, of Lucasville, met Smokey and Sparky at the Scioto County Safety Day in New Boston.

Ohio's prisons are bursting at the seams, and the state's top warden said he isn't afraid to pull an emergency switch to relieve the pressure if lawmakers don't act soon.

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A Lucasville man was returned to Ross County Jail on a $160,000 bond Monday after appearing in Pike County Court on accusations he intentionally rammed another vehicle with his pickup truck Sunday evening.

By FRANK LEWIS PDT Staff Writer A Lucasville woman is one of five people arrested late last week in a major drug bust.

The Ohio Supreme Court has set July 21 as the execution date for Marvallous Keene, who was sentenced to death for his role in the notorious "Christmas killings" of 1992, the worst murder spree in Dayton history.

A jury took less than two hours to reduce the charges against a woman who struck and killed a bicyclist in last year's Tour of the Scioto River Valley .

WAVERLY - Lucasville resident Sara Bender told a Pike County jury she believed something had struck her windshield last May when she drove away from an accident that killed William Crowley, 57, a Northville, Mich., physician who was participating in the Tour of the Scioto River Valley.

By FRANK LEWIS PDT Staff Writer One fire in Scioto County has been ruled an arson and another remains under investigation by the State Fire Marshala s Office in Columbus.

MANSFIELD, Ohio - Attacks in Ohio's prisons recently have increased, partly because young adult gangs disregard an unofficial code among inmates by robbing others and attacking in groups, officials said.

The Heartless Felons, a new kind of prison gang, have brazenly broke away from the unwritten convict's code -- no rapes, no robberies, no snitching, no group attacks -- and raised tensions to alarming rates at the Mansfield Correctional Institution, prison guards and officials say.