Tag: Portsmouth

From shopfront canopies to cemetery gates, police spent the holiday weekend dealing with a string of calls tied to homelessness, ...

Scioto County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Jerry Safarik on a domestic violence charge after responding to a Wheelersburg home just after ...

A Portsmouth Junior High School football coach and substitute teacher has been arrested on serious charges involving a student.  The ...

Law enforcement has confirmed an arrest in connection with a Scioto County murder investigation.  James Paul Ruggles, 33, currently listed ...

John Clinton Brown, 70, passed away on August 31, 2025. He was born on October 31, 1954, to the late ...

Frances J. Williamson, 83 of West Portsmouth, died Sunday, August 31, 2025 at Bridgeport Hospice in Portsmouth. She was born ...

For much of the morning, Portsmouth Police were chasing shadows. Apartment doors were checked, neighborhoods searched, tips followed. The city’s ...

It was another busy weekend for Portsmouth police, with calls piling up about homeless residents causing scenes, struggling with the ...

A routine drive through Pike County turned into a fatal tragedy when a vehicle driven by an elderly couple was ...

Portsmouth Police officers were called to two tense family situations in a single day, both involving children caught in the ...