The Zanesville Police Department is investigating a weekend fatal accident. It happened Sunday just after 6:00 am. Police say 35-year-old Devin Snack of Zanesville was driving north on Blue Avenue, just past Zanesville High School, lost control, ran off the left side of the road, struck a house and was ejected from her vehicle. Police […]
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The Muskingum County Unified Command Center reported Thursday that 12 more residents tested positive for COVID-19. The group includes a 64-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in the county to 601 with 19 current hospitalizations and three deaths. Muskingum County remains on a Level […]
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The Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal accident in Perry County. It happened Thursday morning at around 2:15 on State Route 93, just north of Township Road 273. Troopers say 55-year-old Tracy Wintermute II of New Straitsville was traveling south on State Route 93, when he lost control, struck a guardrail, overturned multiple times and […]
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Monday (today) is the deadline for Ohioans to register to vote in the November 3rd presidential election. Once registered voters have the option to vote early in person, to request a mail-in ballot or to wait and vote at their precincts on election day. The deadline to request an absentee ballot is noon on October […]
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President Donald Trump has tweeted that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump’s positive test comes just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks came down with the virus after traveling with the President several times this week. Trump is 74 years old, putting him […]
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The rash of COVID-19 positive cases in Muskingum County this past week has landed it in the Level 3 Red designation of the Ohio Public Health Advisory System. It indicates very high exposure and spread of the coronavirus. Muskingum County is the only county in southeastern Ohio with the dubious distinction. During his bi-weekly COVID-19 […]
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The Zanesville Muskingum County Health Department has issued its recommendations for Beggar’s Night (Trick or Treat) for 2020. It is suggesting that each community have the event on the same night, Saturday October 31st from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Officials say it will reduce the co-mingling of communities. They are offering some guideline to follow: […]
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The Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find a runaway teenager. Deputies are looking for 15-year-old Cameron Campbell. He is described as 5’8″, 135 pounds with black hair and blue eyes. His last known address is 1894 South River Road in Zanesville. If you have any information on his whereabouts […]
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Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says his office is investigating two serious accidents from this past weekend. Lutz says just after 9:30 Saturday night a Dresden man was killed in an off-road ATV accident. The sheriff says 27-year-old Jonathan Kuhn died in the accident off Gene Cox Memorial Drive in Dresden. Sheriff Lutz say later […]
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The Zanesville Post of the Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal motorcycle accident. It happened Friday just after 11:00 pm on East Highland Drive near Hilltop road in Muskingum County. Troopers says 34-year-old John Saxton of Frazeysburg was traveling north on East Highland when he went off the right side of the road, striking a […]
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