Portsmouth 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.

Valley Township authorities have responded to charges that the clerk and trustees are not letting the fire department and EMS utilize $150,000 they say was earmarked for their use.

When you whip out a bank card to pay for that morning cup of coffee, and accidentally overdraw your bank account by even a few pennies, the bank fee alone might cost you 12 times more than your coffee.

There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday in Piketon for a 42-foot mobile unit with a CT scanner that will be used in resuming tests to detect early lung cancer for current and former workers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

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

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.

" Robert Taylor "Bob" Johnson would have had time after graduating from high school to earn a college degree before the Army drafted him for duty in World War II.

The Southern Ohio Museum's Bizarre Bazaar benefit, scheduled for Friday and set against the backdrop of the Kricker Gallery "Sawdust and Spectacle" circus exhibition, promises to be a one-of-a-kind, exotic experience for all who attend.

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The Division of State Fire Marshal investigators are continuing their investigation of an overnight fatal fire in Jackson County.

"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 father of a missing Oldham County 14-year-old girl said the girl has been found in Ohio.

A Portsmouth man has been arrested, and a baby has been taken to a Columbus hospital.

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

The three-way race for Portsmouth Mayor headlines a full ballot as voters face Tuesday's election.

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

A registered sex offender being sought by Scioto County authorities since 2005, has been arrested in Dodge City, Kan.

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

Jane Murray, who is challenging incumbent Mayor James Kalb in the Nov. 3 election, has received the endorsement of the Area Political Committee of AFSCME Ohio Council 8, and AFSCME Ohio Retiree Chapter 1184, AFL-CIO. "I am pleased to have their endorsement which says that they know that I know how to handle government," Murray said.