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You’re invited to support Licking County Health Department’s (LCHD) and Screening and Survivor Support’s (SASS 15th annual Pink Strides for Breast Cancer Wellness Walk event on Saturday, October 1, event beginning at 9:00 am (registration opens at 8:15 am) at LCHD, located at 675 Price Road in Newark.Kick-off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a family-friendly walk on the health department’s 1/2-mile paved walking trail, …

This week, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a $1 million grant for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio (RMHC), assisting the nonprofit in its goal of helping more families in their hour of greatest need. “This investment will help the Central Ohio Ronald McDonald House support more families in need of respite care as they …

COLUMBUS – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting four fatal traffic crashes which claimed four lives over the Labor Day holiday weekend according to provisional data. The data collected points to the 2022 Labor Day holiday weekend as being the safest since 2010.  Troopers arrested 405 drivers for OVI and issued 1,992 safety belt citations. Troopers also made 221 drug …

COLUMBUS – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is urging drivers to be safe this Labor Day weekend. Troopers will focus enforcement efforts on removing impaired drivers from Ohio’s roadways. The Labor Day weekend reporting period begins Friday, September 2 at 12 a.m. and ends Monday, September 5 at 11:59 p.m. “We want all Ohioans who are traveling this weekend to …

The Licking County Health Department (LCHD) supports the Licking County River Round Up event on Saturday, September 10. This annual river clean up brings out hundreds of volunteers who pull tires, shopping carts and mountains of trash from 30 miles of rivers and streams. Through this amazing community-based conservation effort, a river system that had all but been abandoned, has seen a …

The City of Delaware is considering two final candidates for the police chief position. The two are: Mark McDonough, Chief of Police for Whitehouse, Ohio, since 2012. Prior to that, McDonough served as a patrol sergeant for the City of Bowling Green Police Department. He has 32 years in law enforcement.Adam Moore, Interim Chief of Police for the City of Delaware. …

Mount Vernon – The Mount Gilead Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, inconjunction with the Mount Vernon Police Department, Knox County Sheriff’s Office,and the Ohio Department of Transportation, conducted an OVI checkpoint on Friday,August 26, 2022. The location was on State Route 13/South Main Street, from 8:00P.M. to 9:45 P.M. The OVI checkpoint funding came from federal grants to …

NEWARK, OHIO – The Newark Division of Police has been made aware that many of our residentshave become the recipients of scam phone calls telling the person that they have a warrant. Manyvariations of this scam have been making their way through local agencies and nationwide. We will notcall you to tell you that you have a warrant, nor will …

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Franklin County Sheriffs Office and the Licking County Sheriffs Office have collaborated to make an arrest on a cold case homicide investigation from each respective county. On August 5 2022, Robert Edwards age 67 of Columbus Ohio was arrested on a charge of Aggravated Murder and then later indicted for …

for Human Trafficking (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — A weekend human-trafficking operation involving 98 law enforcement agencies across the state ended in the arrests of 35 “johns” seeking to buy sex and 21 others seeking to buy sex from minors, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. “On my watch, those who keep human traffickers in business are going to pay a …