Fairfield County News

Authorities continued to investigate the death of a 4-month-old infant who had been on life support since Halloween night.

LANCASTER -- Jury members heard testimony Thursday from a former detective assigned to investigate reports of alleged sexual abuse of two young Amanda-area girls.

LANCASTER -- A 29-year-old mother of two died after being shot by a police officer, and some of those close to her question whether her death was necessary.

LANCASTER -- Investigators are looking into who or what caused fatal injuries to a 4-month-old Lancaster boy.

LANCASTER -- Attorneys asked a young woman Wednesday to recount memories she said she has tried for years to forget, occasions she thought would result in her punishment if anyone ever found out.

LANCASTER -- Local authorities still have more questions than answers about a 4-month-old boy surviving on life support at a Columbus hospital.

LANCASTER - County authorities are weighing a decision over whether to remove a brain-dead child who is under county custody from life support at Children's Hospital in Columbus.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY - The Fairfield Department of Health has expanded its H1N1 walk-in clinics at River Valley Mall in Lancaster to include children from six months to 24 years of age and adults 25 through 64 years of age with chronic medical conditions or compromised immune systems.

Unable to fund the construction of a new jail, Fairfield County must continue to pay others to house some prisoners.

Two Fairfield county 911 dispatchers were disciplined after failing to send a deputy to the scene of an accident.

Two Fairfield County dispatchers are being disciplined for mishandling the response to a 911 call that turned out to be a traffic fatality, Sheriff Dave Phalen said.

Following a recent increase in voter registration, Fairfield County also saw a slight jump in participation in the Nov.

Fairfield County had its 17th fatal crash of the year Tuesday afternoon, more than doubling the amount of fatal crashes the county saw in all of 2008.

PATASKALA -- Levies passed for Licking Heights Local Schools, the West Licking Fire Renewal and Harrison Township Roads, but the Pataskala Public Library lost its bid to pass its 0.49-mill issue.

A teenage girl is dead after being hit by a car while riding her horse. It happened around 6:30 last night on Marcy Road in Fairfield County.

A family is working to put the pieces back together Friday, after a man has confessed to destroying a woman's grave because her daughter refused his advances, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.

Police say when a woman refused to date an Ohio man, he got upset and smashed her mother's grave marker with a sledge hammer.

The damaged grave marker of Connie Brown. Detectives say Steven C. Locke became upset when a 17-year-old girl refused to date him.

LANCASTER -- One local family is finding out how difficult it is to start over when there's nowhere to begin.

LANCASTER, Ohioa 'A 15-year-old boy is accused of making 95 prank calls to the Fairfield County Sheriffa TMs office 911 system.