Ex-Minnesota Viking football player Travis Bethel has been hired as head football coach at Vinton County High School- Newly hired assistants are all also new to the program.

 

Dairy Queen to give away free ice cream cones to everyone tomorrow in celebration of the first day of spring!

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Tomorrow Wednesday March 20th is the annual Statewide tornado drill at 9:50 a.m. Schools and many businesses and organizations participate in the tornado drill- Remember it’s only a test

 

 

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) —
Attorneys for a woman facing charges in connection to the Pike County family massacre are seeking dismissal of obstruction and perjury charges against her.

Seventy-six-year-old Fredericka Wagner’s son, daughter-in-law and two grandsons pleaded not guilty to the 2016 slayings of eight Rhoden family members in Pike County.

Wagner pleaded not guilty to charges against her. The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports her attorneys filed a motion Friday to dismiss those charges. The newspaper reports Wagner testified she bought two bulletproof vests after the shootings through Amazon, but investigators found no purchase records of the vests they suspect Wagner’s family wore during the slayings.

Wagner now says she bought them on eBay.

An Ohio Attorney General’s Office prosecutor says she couldn’t comment on the filing.

According to a press release by the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office the human remains were found on Thursday March 13th 2019 have been identified. The remains found off State Route 522 along to 26 year old Rebecca Lee Kearns who is reported missing to the Portsmouth Police Department in October of 2018. The case will now be a joint investigation between the Scioto County Sheriff’s office and the Portsmouth Police. The case will now be a joint investigation between the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office and the Portsmouth Police to find out and focus on how Kern’s ended up off State Route 522 and what the cause of death was.

The Sheriff’s Office and courage is anyone in the public that has information to contact detective Adam Giles at 740-354-7316. All information will be kept confidential and anonymous.

According to a Columbus Dispatch article, a Chillicothe man walking in the middle of Brown Road in southwestern Franklin County was struck and killed by a pickup truck on Saturday night.

Matthew Loel, 34, was walking southbound in the middle of the northbound lanes of Brown Road north of Frank Road in Franklin Township around 9 p.m. when he was struck by a pickup truck driven by Paola Cruz of Whitehall, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

Loel was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sheriff Lavender is attempting to locate 16 year old Shane Seyfang. He ran away from a residence on Dry Run Road at approximately 10:00 p.m.

He is described as being 5’8″ tall, 180 lbs., brown hair and eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Ross County Sheriff’s Office at 740-773-1185.

According to an update on a Facebook post by the Ross County Sheriff’s Office a 17 year old runaway was located safely in Franklin County March 11th. The Sheriff’s Office wants to thank the public for sharing the information around social media

LAURELVILLE, Ohio (10TV) — Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a three-vehicle crash involving two horse-drawn buggies.

It happened around 9:45 p.m. on State Route 180 near Defenbaugh Road in Hocking County.

Troopers say a 17-year-old was driving his car when he ran into the first buggy, which had three people inside. The buggy that was hit then hit a second buggy, knocking both carriages off the right side of the roadway,

Troopers say one woman was flown to Grant Medical Center while another woman was transported to Hocking Valley Community Hospital. Their conditions are unknown at this time.

Troopers say one of the horses pulling the buggies died in the crash.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.