Pike County News

With 4,500 unique types of trees, Dawes Arboretum is like a Vegas-style, all-you-can-eat buffet for... It's been more than a year since the Scioto Valley was touched by death in the war on terror.

Students in Ross and Pike counties, as a whole, met fewer benchmarks on the Ohio Graduation Tests this year than in 2011, but not by much.

With 4,500 unique types of trees, Dawes Arboretum is like a Vegas-style, all-you-can-eat buffet for... It's been more than a year since the Scioto Valley was touched by death in the war on terror.

The Pike SWCD is announcing the theme for the 2012 photo contest. The District is looking for photos of any season of "Old Barns in Pike County". This means that the barn has to be located in Pike County, but the photographer can live outside of the county.

Two people were arrested for making methamphetamine in Piketon, Tuesday. Pike County Sheriff Richard Henderson says at 8:30pm, authorities found the subjects in a wooded area behind a church on Chenoweth Fork Road along with an odor of chemicals and numerous items used to make meth.

Two people were arrested Tuesday after Pike County sheriff's deputies discovered an alleged outdoor methamphetamine production site off Chenoweth Fork Road.

Hadsell Chemical Processing in the Pike County has been awarded a 45 percent, seven-year Job Creation Tax Credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority.

A U.S. District Court jury has convicted a couple of operating a "pill mill" in the Pike County village of Waverly.

As we head to the end of May, we hit a season when the temperatures are warmer, outdoor events are... I was one of the lucky ones in the emergency room that day, but not because I had survived a heart... BEAVER - Three people - including one with another current drug case pending - were arrested after Pike County deputies raided a home on Ratliff ... (more)

Two men who died in combat and a local corrections officer killed on the road could be honored with memorial highway designations in Ross County.

Jury deliberations are under way in the case of alleged Ohio pill mill operators accused of illegally prescribing thousands of prescription painkillers.

Pike County Agriculture Awareness Day: More than 500 third-graders from Pike and Ross counties were at the Pike County Fairgrounds on Friday for the Pike County Farm Bureau's 15th annual Agriculture Awareness Day.

This week the county's law enforcement agencies new dispatching system went online.

At a public safety committee meeting Tuesday, Chairman Dick Demlow said ordinances against unsafe properties already are on the books, but there has been some confusion about how the city can enforce them.

Relay for Life activities will start in many of the counties of the Scioto Valley region in the month of June.

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

A Michigan man has charged with drug possession and trafficking following a traffic stop in Pike County.

Another trial of alleged pill mill operators begins Tuesday, one that will highlight the connections between the roots of the state's painkiller epidemic in southern Ohio and the 90-mile trip many addicts took north to Columbus when their source for prescriptions dried up.