Scioto County News

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.

According to information presented Oct. 21 at the Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemic regional meeting held at the Scioto County Welcome Center, in 2008, Scioto County was number two per capita in prescription drug overdose deaths out of 88 Ohio counties.

For over thirty years the Scioto County Career Technical Center has provided business and industry with skilled and technically trained employees.

The Knapp Road bridge over Pine Creek was nearing completion at the end of this week.

Defense attorneys for the Franklin Furnace woman charged with killing three people last December want the death penalty specification off the case.

The case is closed and murder/suicide has been ruled in the death of two people in May, in Scioto County.

MARION -- The mother of two children killed in an apartment fire was being held on a $2,500 bond Wednesday after pleading not guilty to charges related to their deaths.

Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini announced Tuesday that his office has arrested three sex offenders for failure to register their residences, and a fourth is still being sought.

The mother of two children killed in fire on Blaine Avenue earlier this year was arrested Monday on charges of child endangering.

I have just read an e-mail from my friend Bob Walton Jr., and I have decided it is time to go ahead and talk about the number one problem in our community.

"I think the people in Portsmouth are ready for a change." That may have been the understatement of the night by newly elected Third Ward Councilman Nicholas R. Basham as the numbers poured into the Scioto County Court House Tuesday night, and voters in the first and third wards made a clean sweep, electing Basham in the Third and Kevin Johnson in ...

The problem of illegal prescription narcotics is forcing communities across the area to do something to try to stem the flow of these powerful drugs.

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Her mother, Cherish N. Lewis, is presently in Scioto County Jail on contempt charges.

A death penalty trial that was to have started today in Portsmouth is being delayed.

PORTSMOUTH a ' A Scioto County jury found David Hamilton guilty Friday in the Feb.

If David Hamilton ever sees the outside of a prison, it will not be for at least 30 years.

The Scioto County Sheriff's office issued an arrest warrant for the arrest of registered sex offender.

The Ohio and Scioto County farm bureaus are asking voters to support Issue 2 when they step into the booth Tuesday, while animal rights groups such as the Humane Society hope voters will reject the amendment.