Ross County News

Worthington Elementary School fifth-grader Gabe Smith scored high enough on the Scripps National Spelling Bee's new online qualifying test to advance to the regional round.

The future of dirt track auto racing in Ross County, once a staple of the summer, is decidedly uncertain.

The Chillicothe Kiwanis Club is seeking nominations for the Kiwanis 2012 Ohio Statehood Day Achievement Award.

The winner of this year's Feast of the Flowering Moon's Ross County Idol contest will automatically advance to the top 100 in Ohio Idol.

An Ohio man, who led authorities on a high-speed chase through two counties, was indicted by the Ross County Grand Jury, Friday.

The Ross County Sheriff has been notified of another scam being perpetrated on residents via the telephone.

In a turn of events that threatens to lay waste to the central theme of the GOP challenge to Barack... The damage to the former train depot along East Main and South Sugar streets is shown after a Wednesday fire.

Ohio officials said the number of deer harvested in the most recent hunting season decreased by almost 20,000 compared with 2011, and those lower numbers also were reflected in many counties across the Scioto Valley.

One man is dead after a fatal crash on Dixon Mill Road, north of West Junction. Officials from the Ross County Sheriff's Office believe 37-year-old Mark W. Detty, of Londonderry, lost control of his vehicle, struck a guy-wire to a utility pole, and then crashed into a tree.

The Ross County Sheriff's Office made contact this morning with the family of a woman who died in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday.

Janett McGarvey, a receptionist for Community Action Outreach, works Tuesday at Sherman Park, one of four new outreach offices that have opened in hopes of making services available to more people who need them.

Local organizers hope to expand the scope of Ross County Idol this year to make the vocal competition more competitive.

The Ross County Sheriff's Office is confirming a fatality from a collision on Charleston Pike, Tuesday afternoon.

Ross County Sheriff office confirms that one person is dead after a fatal crash in the 7100 block of Charleston Pike in rural Ross County.

A Walnut Street man faces a felony theft charge after allegedly walking through a hospital and taking medical items.

Deputies from the Ross County Sheriff's Office and medic personnel responded to the scene in the 7100 block of Charleston Pike on a report of a serious crash at about 2:54 p.m. Tuesday.

A man convicted on multiple counts of sex abuse in 2008 will be required to meet the same registration requirements previously determined despite a sex offender reclassification hearing Monday.

A male pit bull has a long road to healing, both physical and mentally, at the Ross County Humane Society.

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- A Chillicothe man and his mother are facing multiple charges after a complaint of animal cruelty leads Chillicothe Police to a Ross County home.

A Ross County man and his mother are charged with multiple counts of animal cruelty, accused of letting several dogs starve, 10TV News reported on Monday.