West Portsmouth News

Portsmouth Raceway Park hosted its annual Kids Night Saturday, and a great crowd of both children and adults was in attendance on Father's Day Weekend to watch over 75 drivers compete in an evening full of racing.

Marvin R. Kennard, 81, of West Portsmouth, died Monday June 17, 2013, at Hill View Retirement Center in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Another woman has been reported missing and authorities have listed her name in a national directory.

Jerry Lee Evans of West Portsmouth is leaving the area Monday to travel to Washington state to participate in a cross country motorcycle race.

Patrick Phillip Simon, 53, of West Portsmouth, died Friday, June 7, 2013, in Huntington, W.Va., as a result of a car wreck.

The public, at least for the time being, will not know what a former pain clinic owner pled to in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.

Jackie Boggs, Adam Jordan, Robbie Lewis and Brett Carey all won feature events Saturday night at Portsmouth Raceway Park in their respective divisions.

Tiersa Davis Web Producer: Jeff Morris Reported: Jun. 10, 2013 3:26 PM EDT Updated: Jun. 10, 2013 3:49 PM EDT West Portsmouth , Scioto County , Ohio A motorcyclist has died from injuries sustained in an accident in Scioto County that also injured another person.

The U.S. District Court in Cincinnati was reporting late Friday afternoon that a Scioto County pain clinic owner charged in the illegal dispensing of drugs was still in court.

An Ohio medical clinic owner charged with illegal drug distribution is scheduled to change his plea Friday at a hearing that usually signals a pending guilty plea.

West Portsmouth , Scioto County , Ohio The parents of two young children in West Portsmouth, Ohio, are accused of leaving their kids home alone and locked in a bedroom for more than two hours.

With bleak forecasts and pop-up showers around the area, PRP hustled threw the show in order to get in before Mother Nature could wash it out.

Born on Feb. 26, 1956, in Portsmouth, the son of the late Harry and Dealia Johnson Gambill.

Once again, Sierra's Haven has come to the rescue. The group stepped in to rescue some 14 dogs found in and around a West Portsmouth residence.

Former Portsmouth pain clinic operator Tracy Bias is scheduled to go on trial on June 24 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.

A hearing that usually indicates a guilty plea has been scheduled for the owner of three Ohio medical clinics charged with illegal drug distribution.

Due in part to sequestration and other federal budget cuts, Portsmouth Metropolitan Housing Authority has decided to close its Section 8 housing waiting list.

He was born Aug. 6, 1925 at Pond Creek, Ohio the son of the late Lawrence and Blanche Montavon.

The leadership of Fluor-B&W Portsmouth have been meeting with the Scioto County Commissioners quarterly to update them on ongoing activities with the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the former gaseous diffusion plant in Piketon.

According the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a 1996 Chevy Corsica driven by Chad Butcher, 33, of West Portsmouth, failed to yield at the intersection of Ohio 73 on Galena Pike at about 9:35 a.m. Thursday.