Tag: safety

A noise complaint turned into a parenting reality check after police discovered children home alone at an apartment—and it raised a question many ...

Two recent calls involving missing persons and local shelters have left families frustrated and confused, asking the same question: Why won’t these places ...

It started with a knock meant to help someone in trouble — and spiraled into fear, destruction, and a barefoot ...

There was a death at the Scioto County Jail on Jan 11th, 2026. When a person dies on government property, ...

For generations, buying a home in Scioto County meant something fairly simple: find a place you could afford, settle in, ...

Communities don’t thrive because a few people hope they will. They thrive because organizations—formal and informal, nonprofit and civic, government-linked ...

From midnight to mid-afternoon, Portsmouth Police responded to multiple calls involving homeless individuals across the city at the Post Office, ...

Officers were called to the Portsmouth Post Office after a customer supervisor reported a troubled homeless woman had been living in the lobby and ...

“What did you do to provoke him?”  That’s the response a woman says she received when she went to police seeking ...

Another crash involving a vehicle and a motorized wheelchair is adding fuel to a growing conversation in Portsmouth: are mobility scooter and wheelchair users following traffic ...