Weigand Construction on Thursday provided an update on the Allen County Jail project at 2911 Meyer Road.

An Athens area man, who has been in and out of jail during the past two decades, was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in a federal prison.

James A. Bartels, 52, of Rio Grande, Ohio, started 26 fires in the national forest in 2022, creating a substantial risk of death or significant injury to the public, as well as to firefighters from ...

An investigation is underway after allegations of a Wayne County employee using inmates for work on private property without authorization.

An Athens man received a telephone call recently from someone who identified himself as a captain in the Barrow County ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department has added a nurse practitioner, dialysis treatments and the ability to do more ...

Along with first-degree murder, Brandee Katrice Pierce, 41, has been charged with felony murder, first-degree child abuse, ...

An escaped prisoner in Muskingum County was found and apprehended days later in a Zanesville residence. The Muskingum County ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

A Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man who fled law enforcement in September and left a child unattended in a field faces up to five-plus years in prison.

Wayne Pletcher, 37, was able to escape the jail at 5:09 p.m., according to the sheriff's office. COLUMBUS, Ohio — The ...

Authorities arrested a Zanesville man who police say escaped from Muskingum County Jail along with a woman accused of helping ...