Lucasville News

Quick work by the Scioto County Sheriffa s Office has resulted in an arrest in Sundaya s robbery of the Lucasville Subway restaurant.

Officers from the Scioto County Sheriffa s Department are investigating an aggravated robbery reported at Subway in Lucasville, Sunday night.

As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal-injection attempt, prison staff called on a doctor for help.

An update to a robbery we first told you about Monday. The Scioto County Sheriff's Department has arrested Justin Adkins of Lucasville for robbing the local Subway.

The Scioto County sheriff's department is investigating the reported aggravated robbery of the Subway in Lucasville, Ohio.

A Minford man is in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Grant Medical Center in Columbus after being stabbed in the chest during an altercation Thursday afternoon, and a Portsmouth man is in custody in that stabbing.

The Scioto County Sheriff's Department arrested a Portsmouth man after a stabbing incident Friday morning.

Valley Township authorities have responded to charges that the clerk and trustees are not letting the fire department and EMS utilize $150,000 they say was earmarked for their use.

COLUMBUS a ' The state parole board next week will hear arguments on whether to commute the death sentence of a Trumbull County man convicted in a brutal 1991 murder.

The race for three openings on the Zane Trace Local Schools Board of Education has seven candidates, including two brothers.

Ohio was on track this year to execute a record number of inmates. One botched execution and several lawsuits later, the death penalty is temporarily on hold there.

Randy Davidson, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, harassment by bodily substance, defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine months' prison sentence concurrent to present sentence and court costs.

In 1999, inmates could choose death on the then-new lethal-injection bed or in the electric chair inside the death house at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

There's good news for people who heat their homes with natural gas, fuel oil and propane.

Ohio prison officials are considering a major overhaul of death-penalty procedures that might include changing out such key elements as drugs and an execution team.

UNION TWP. - The two lawyers who prosecuted Liz and David Carroll Jr. for the murder of their 3-year-old foster child, Marcus Fiesel, will talk about their trial tactics during that and other high-profile cases at a legal seminar this month.

A TANKER TRUCK PARKED BEHIND CHEROKEE HALL IN LUCASVILLE WAS THE SCENE OF A THEFT AND HAZARDOUS LEAK.

Emergency response officials responded Wednesday morning when anhydrous ammonia was leaked from a tank parked off of U.S. 23 north.

Gov. Ted Strickland hasn't formally launched his re-election campaign yet, but his campaign Web site is up and e-mails are going out from "the Strickland for Governor campaign team" promoting the governor's annual birthday event Saturday in Lucasville.

An amonia leak near the Lucasville Bottoms area in Scioto county prompted authorities to issue a shelter in place Wednesday morning.