A landlord contacted Portsmouth Police around 1:30 p.m. after a tense eviction situation took a dark turn. She reported that a recently evicted tenant muttered something about burning the house down following a court hearing. According to the caller, the tenant had just been ordered to vacate the property after an official eviction hearing. As […]
A subscription to SCDN is required to continue reading this post and will also remove national ads. Click here to support our community and become a subscriber for less than $1/week. If you already have an account, login here.
We are a grassroots team of local journalists on a mission to give our community up-to-the-second news and events for Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Western West Virginia. We believe progress inspires change and we believe our reporting has become the front-lines of Portsmouth, Ohio's comeback.
© 2025 Scioto County Daily News. All Rights Reserved.