MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Monday creating a grant program meant to help expand broadband access in underserved and rural areas around Ohio.
Monday, May 17, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose launched his reelection bid on Monday, touting the state's smooth 2020 election even as many fellow Republicans expressed unfounded doubts in the presidential result and GOP lawmakers are backing a major rewrite to state voting laws.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Medical Board of Ohio panel has added three existing conditions for Ohioans to buy medical marijuana.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A pilot program in Ohio’s capital and largest city will test alternative responses to 911 callers suffering from mental health crises and addiction issues, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced Friday.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio — A Huntington man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday in Willow Wood, Ohio.
Saturday, May 15, 2021
IRONTON — A South Point area man was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to four counts of trafficking in meth in the vicinity of a school.
Friday, May 14, 2021
IRONTON — Ironton In Bloom’s May Business of the Month is Nancy’s Place, located at 115 N. 3rd St. in Ironton.
RIO GRANDE, Ohio — Four area high school seniors claimed $5,000 worth of scholarships funded by Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative in the annual competition for the children of cooperative members.
IRONTON — The city of Ironton, working with Ironton in Bloom and downtown businesses, is in the process of taking down dozens of trees in the downtown and replacing them with new trees and shrubbery.
LAND TRANSFERS
REMINDER: We try to keep event listings current and correct. Due to coronavirus concerns, several events are being postponed or canceled. Please check with the venue to ensure an event is still happening before you plan to go. Add your event to our calendar by going to www.Herald-Dispatch.co…
Thursday, May 13, 2021
IRONTON — Ohio University Southern has announced its list of spring 2021 associate degree nursing and bachelor of science in nursing graduates.
Monday, May 10, 2021
IRONTON — A Lawrence County man rejected a plea deal this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court that would have sent him to prison for 30 years to life.
IRONTON — A Coal Grove man was sentenced this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to more than five-and-a-half years in prison for violating community control sanctions.
Monday, May 10, 2021
IRONTON — The following people were among those indicted last week by a Lawrence County grand jury. Most of the charges won’t end in prison terms, but with treatment and community service.
Sunday, May 09, 2021
IRONTON — After a gap of more than a year, criminal trials are being scheduled this month in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
Saturday, May 08, 2021
WASHINGTON — Controlling Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, Democrats were hopeful that this would be the year they finally secured civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans.
Friday, May 07, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Transgender girls would be banned from participating in female sports teams in high school or college in two bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in Ohio, which became the latest state to take up the contentious debate.
ROME TOWNSHIP — Lawrence County is seeking $834,634 in federal grants and from a Cleveland area developer to extend the Union Rome sewer district line and for needed storm drainage improvements in Rome Township.
IRONTON — In 2007, a group of Ironton citizens organized Ironton in Bloom to make our hometown a better place to live, work and play. In the first year, Ironton in Bloom put pots of flowers in downtown Ironton and placed “Yard of the Month” signs in particularly attractive yards.
The following information was provided from Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office reports:
Land transfers
PROCTORVILLE — Realtor Tracy Bunch has donated $10,000 to the Fairland East Playground Fund. Her donation is a major contribution to the “Foundation of Fun,” aimed at purchasing the special rubberized surface.
REMINDER: We try to keep event listings current and correct. Due to coronavirus concerns, several events are being postponed or canceled. Please check with the venue to ensure an event is still happening before you plan to go. Add your event to our calendar by going to www.Herald-Dispatch.co…
Thursday, May 06, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio became the latest state Thursday where Republicans are proposing a significant rewrite of state election laws, an effort that comes despite sweeping GOP victories in the state last year and a smooth election.
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Holding a cellphone or other electronic device while driving in Ohio would be illegal under legislation introduced Monday that takes aim at distracted driving by targeting not just texting but scrolling through social media and other hands-on phone uses.
Saturday, May 01, 2021
IRONTON — A Lawrence County grand jury has returned more than 50 indictments including a secret indictment, according to Prosecuting Attorney Brigham Anderson.
IRONTON — A Scioto County, Ohio, man admitted violating community control sanctions this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court and was sentenced to 47 months in prison.
Friday, April 30, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police in Ohio’s capital city ran “amok” last year when responding to demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality by using physical violence, tear gas and pepper spray against protesters without provocation, a federal judge said Friday in a ruling ordering o…
CINCINNATI — Vice President Kamala Harris promoted a range of benefits from public transportation Friday in an Ohio visit.
SOUTH POINT, Ohio — After missing a year, the Lawrence County Cleanup Day activities are back from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 14.
The following information was provided from Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office reports:
Otto D. Graham to Wyatt and Micaela Meadows, a parcel in Ironton 4th Ward, $50,000.
IRONTON, Ohio — The Shake Shoppe in Ironton will donate a portion of its proceeds to Habitat for Humanity of the Tri-State (formerly Huntington WV Area Habitat for Humanity) on Saturday, May 15.
REMINDER: We try to keep event listings current and correct. Due to coronavirus concerns, several events are being postponed or canceled. Please check with the venue to ensure an event is still happening before you plan to go. Add your event to our calendar by going to www.Herald-Dispatch.co…
IRONTON — Nursing students from Ohio University Southern participated in an emergency room simulation to test their knowledge and skills related to medicine and how they handle patient and family member reactions on Friday, April 23.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
IRONTON — Lawrence County officials reacted to a rash of workplace shootings across the country by enacting a policy prohibiting most employees from bringing a firearm or weapon into the courthouse or property overseen by the board.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio’s capital city has made significant progress enacting changes to its police department, the city needs additional help because of “fierce opposition” to reform within the agency, city leaders said Wednesday as they requested a Justice Department investigation foll…
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — Union Township will have its semi-annual clean-up event from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., or until Dumpsters are full, on Saturday, May 1.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Health will not appeal a federal court ruling that barred the state from not allowing people to change the gender listings on their birth certificates.
Monday, April 26, 2021
CLEVELAND — Republicans at the Ohio Statehouse are backing four bills aimed at criminalizing or increasing penalties associated with behavior at protests in the wake of mass demonstrations that swept across Ohio last year in response to the death of George Floyd.
IRONTON — An Ironton woman was sentenced to 17 months in prison last week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
IRONTON — An Ironton man was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to 4 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty in a drug case.
PROCTORVILLE, Ohio — There will be a spring church yard sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, at Lucinda Baptist Church in Proctorville, Ohio.
SOUTH POINT, Ohio — Tri-State STEM+M Early College High School has started the enrollment process for the 2021-22 school year, which begins in August, according to a news release.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A chaotic 911 call. A convulsive 11 seconds of violence ending in the death of an Ohio teen. A historic verdict being broadcast in the police cruiser.
SOUTH POINT, Ohio — The God Factor Ministries will host the Genuine Unity in the Body of Christ: Iron Sharpening Iron Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. May 1 at the Tri-State Worship Center located at 901 Solida Road in South Point, Ohio.
Friday, April 23, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Democrats pushed back Friday against a Republican rewrite of election laws forthcoming in Ohio as “regressive,” saying its ballot drop box limits, tightened voter ID requirements and shortened early voting window amount to voter suppression.
LAND TRANSFERS
FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio — Sometimes after a tragedy, good things can result.
WILLOW WOOD — Several Symmes Valley Junior High School students can add to their resumes a title that many adults covet: published author.
IRONTON — The following information was provided from Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office reports:
NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Wayne National Forest is pleased to announce projects that were selected for Great American Outdoors Act funding.
REMINDER: We try to keep event listings current and correct. Due to coronavirus concerns, several events are being postponed or canceled. Please check with the venue to ensure an event is still happening before you plan to go. Add your event to our calendar by going to www.Herald-Dispatch.co…
Thursday, April 22, 2021
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to the murders of his child’s mother and seven members of her family in 2016 — a grisly crime that spread terror across their rural Ohio community and stirred rumors of drug dealers and hit men before authorities concluded it stemmed from a custody dispute.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A $75 billion state budget containing a 2% personal income tax cut and an overhaul of the state’s system for funding schools cleared the Ohio House on Wednesday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Body camera footage from other officers released Wednesday in the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who charged at two people with a knife, showed a chaotic scene that happened within minutes of the verdict in George Floyd’s killing and ignited outrag…
CINCINNATI — Along with the snow in Ohio, some records have fallen as the state got some arctic weather in April.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police shot and killed a teenage girl Tuesday afternoon in Columbus just as the verdict was being announced in the trial for the killing of George Floyd.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Democrats in the Ohio House have unveiled several gun control proposals including universal background checks for gun purchases and so-called “red flag” laws allowing for the temporary removal of weapons from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A GOP-backed bill introduced Monday would change the name of an Ohio state park to honor former President Donald Trump.
Monday, April 19, 2021
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A former corrections officer has been indicted on felony charges in the death of a county jail inmate last year, state authorities said.
IRONTON — A Wheelersburg, Ohio, man rejected a plea deal last week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court that would have sent him to prison for five to seven-and-a-half years.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
CENTERVILLE, Ohio — Pandemic-weary Americans starved for human interaction and physical touch are taking advantage of a growing wellness option once reserved for Hollywood actors, rock stars and elite athletes: boutique stretching.
