Lawrence County News

A fire in Lawrence County, Ohio sends two people to the hospital. The fire started around 4 Monday morning in a mobile home along State Route 373.

An Ironton man will get a second chance to beat his drug addiction and change the course of his life.

Flunking a drug test Tuesday squashed a Kitts Hill man's plan to stay out of jail until he was admitted to a rehabilitation program.

An Ironton man has pleaded guilty to charges of breaking into a store twice earlier this year in order to steal cigarettes.

Defendants in a civil suit filed against some Lawrence County, Ohio law enforcement officers and the village of Chesapeake have filed answers to charges that they violated the civil rights of two men bicycling through the county in mid-August 2008.

She grew up with four siblings - Alvin , Dorothy, Faye, and Forrest . Effie is the mother of one daughter, Janet McKenzie.

Running from the law can be tiring, just ask two people who were listed as Most Wanted probation violators in last weeka s Tribune .

NEW CASTLE, Pa. a ' The Lawrence County Courthouse and all county offices will be closed Nov.

" It opened its doors to Lawrence County juveniles this summer. Friday, it opened its doors to the public.

US Forest Service officials say they've contained a fire in the Wayne National Forest in Lawrence County.

IRONTON - Firefighters are trying to contain a wildfire that has spread through an estimated 70 acres in Ohio's only national forest.

Theft, probation violation and drugs were among the alleged crimes discussed Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

Four people listed as Most Wanted probation violators in The Tribune's Nov. 2 edition were caught by the time the week came to an end, Lawrence County Adult Probation Agency officials said Friday.

Ohio polls closed at 7:30 p.m. and shortly after, a small group of interested spectators had gathered on the steps inside the Lawrence County Courthouse.

The bridge will now be called "William A. Gaskin Bridge." SOUTH POINT, OHIO -- The Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce along with the Lawrence Economic Development Corporation will be hosting a ribbon cutting today as the U.S. 52 overpass on Solida Road becomes the "William A. Gaskin Bridge." The dedication honors Gaskin who has been mayor of South ...

By the end of the night, Lawrence County may have some new faces of leadership on its school boards, municipal councils and township trustee groups.

Voters in Lawrence County, Ohio said yes to three of four levies on the ballot Tuesday.

Statewide issues are getting all of the attention as Ohioans head to the polls today, but there are plenty of local races on the ballot in Lawrence County as well as some local levies.

One person listed as one of Lawrence County's most wanted probation violators was nabbed this week in South Point; another turned himself in, but only after expressing dismay at finding his name and mug shot in the newspaper.

A three-month investigation into illegal pill trafficking in Lawrence County, Ohio, has resulted in 25 being charged.