Fairfield County News

A teenage girl is dead after being hit by a car while riding her horse. It happened around 6:30 last night on Marcy Road in Fairfield County.

A family is working to put the pieces back together Friday, after a man has confessed to destroying a woman's grave because her daughter refused his advances, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.

Police say when a woman refused to date an Ohio man, he got upset and smashed her mother's grave marker with a sledge hammer.

The damaged grave marker of Connie Brown. Detectives say Steven C. Locke became upset when a 17-year-old girl refused to date him.

LANCASTER -- One local family is finding out how difficult it is to start over when there's nowhere to begin.

LANCASTER, Ohioa 'A 15-year-old boy is accused of making 95 prank calls to the Fairfield County Sheriffa TMs office 911 system.

LANCASTER -- A Lancaster man convicted of gross sexual imposition and the attempted rape of a minor will spend the next four years in prison and forever be classified as a Tier 3 sex offender.

Fairfield County leaders said a temporary sales tax increase helped close a multi-million dollar budget gap - but to make up the rest - more cuts need to be made, 10TV's Andy Hirsch reported.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY - A seasonal flu shot clinic that was to take place today at the Rushville Lions Club has been canceled due to a lack of flu vaccine in the county.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY -- As many as 11 county health department workers could be laid off as officials try to trim more than $300,000 from the 2010 budget.

A Fairfield County man was killed this morning when his car drove off the road In Perry County and hit a guardrail.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY --Thieves with an eye for copper targeted Carroll's Eastland-Fairfield Career Center last weekend, stealing six heat pumps and nine air conditioning units valued at more than $16,000. Not only that, similar crimes occurred in Lancaster, with residents reporting to police Monday three stolen air conditioning units valued at a total ...

LANCASTER - The fire at 415 Wheat St. is out. The fire was reported at 10:59 a.m. after a fire was discovered by residents in a one-story home containing two apartments.

Some people waited more than three hours to get the vaccine on Monday. H1N1 Virus: SPECIAL SECTION: H1N1 Ohio Department of Health H1N1 Hotline: 1- 866-800-1404 Resources For Pregnant Women Centers For Disease Control Vaccination Resources VACCINE AVAILABILITY: For more information on vaccine availability, check the ODH Web site or call the Ohio ...

LANCASTER -- County officials want residents to know they're gaining headway on a plan to ease traffic flow on County Road 33A, but nothing is set in stone.

Fairfield County consumers will notice a 0.25 percentage-point bump in the sales tax starting Jan.

Philosophical differences cost the Pickerington city manager his job, a council member and the mayor said yesterday.

LANCASTER -- A jury's verdict ultimately came down to testimony of a man who admits he made a living from befriending people, only to turn on them.

LANCASTER -- If the official unemployment rate is down in all 88 Ohio counties, why isn't that good news? Ask any of the people in Fairfield County who have stopped looking for a job, or those who can't find a full-time position.

Two residents came to a public hearing tonight to support a proposal by the Fairfield County commissioners to raise the sales tax by a quarter-percentage point.