Hocking County News

The Fairfield-Hocking Major Crimes Unit and Hocking County Sheriff's Office are asking for the public's help in locating Bobby L. Seymour, 40, who is believed to have been involved in a methamphetamine manufacturing operation.

The Nelsonville Bypass in southeastern Ohio is the largest project to be approved through the federal transportation stimulus program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , in Ohio.

Ohio passed a stimulus mile marker Friday when it received word that transportation projects totaling more than $336 million had been approved by the Federal Highway Administration.

Grant Lee Malone, age 92, went to be with his wife Bobbie and with his Lord on June 15, 2009, at Reid Hospital, where he had been a patient for 10 days.

From left: Sean Carney Band members Eric Blume and Sean Carney with guest performers Gene Walker and Micah Kesselring Blues musician and Columbus native Gene Walker first picked up a saxophone nearly 60 years ago, after sneaking into the Lincoln Theatre to hear Jackie Brenston play.

The Delaware County Sheriff's Office said Friday that a thunderstorm that went through the city caused a canopy to collapse at a gas station.

A charge of aggravated murder has been filed against Larry Davis, in the fatal shooting of his wife.

A Logan man who faced the death penalty walked away as a free man today after being convicted of abuse of a corpse in the 1982 dismemberment slayings of a Hocking County couple.

A Hocking County woman was found dead in her car, apparently shot, outside her home in Laurelville late Sunday night, county Sheriff Lanny North said today.

An MMA Cagefight fundraiser will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Katy Smith Gymnasium of Logan Middle School, 1 Middleschool Dr.

The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for southern Fairfield County, western Hocking County and Southeastern Pickaway County until 6 p.m. This warning has now expired.

A tornado warning has been issued for parts of Farifield, Pickaway and Hocking counties as a storm packing golf ball-size hail continues to rake the region.

This weekend, people across the nation will recognize and pay tribute to more than 24 million American veterans.

A former Logan-Hocking School District employee was in court Wednesday on rape and gross-sexual imposition charges.

A close-up of wood frog eggs Jeff Hinckley DISPATCH PHOTOS A cluster of wood frog eggs in a pond at Blacklick Metro Park Ohio State University professor Thomas Hetherington, left, and graduate student Jennifer Sander examine wood frog eggs in a pond at Blacklick Metro Park.

The Hocking County prosecutor is four months into her new job and she is shaking things up.

ROCKBRIDGE - Hocking County deputies arrested a man in connection with illegally manufacturing marijuana.

A Hocking County man has been charged in the death of a Columbus man in February of this year.

ZANESVILLE - Harley Davidson owners from across the state are poised to converge on downtown Zanesville in June for their annual rally, officials said Thursday.

Circleville- The Fairfield, Hocking and Perry County Farm Bureaus will be hosting Ag Day 2009 Saturday, April 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hocking County Fairgrounds in Logan.