The Powerade Muskingum County/Licking County All-Star Basketball games will be held Sunday, March 21st at Maysville High School. Game sponsors are Powerade/Coke, The Energy Coop and Domino's. The girls game starts at 2:00 p.m., 3 point shoot-out at approximately 3:30 p.m., followed by the boys game at 4:00 p.m. The rosters are as follows:
Muskingum Co. Girls
Officials announced Friday nearly 25 million dollars in Federal Recovery Act Funds for transit improvements in Ohio. More than a half million dollars is headed to Licking County.
The Licking County Transit Board is receiving $216,355 . The funds will be used to purchase three buses, communication and security equipment , and bicycle racks for buses. The money will also be used for resurfacing the bus storage area and parking lot.
The City of Newark is...
Authorities in Licking County continue their search Friday morning for a prisoner who escaped Thursday night.
The Licking County Sheriff's Office along with the Newark Police are on the look out for 25-year-old Joshua Hohman. He's described as being 5'9 and weighs about 150lbs. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a gray t-shirt and handcuffs.
Authorities believe he could now be in the area of Hanover and are on the lookout for a 1993 Chevy Truck that's silver and maroon.
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The State Highway Patrol continues to investigate the death of a man whose body was found along Interstate 70 in Licking County last week.
Commander of the Granville Post Lt. Lawrence Roseboro says an autopsy of 62-year-old Laurence Shelly of Dublin showed he died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
Shelly's body was found January 18th in a ditch off I-70 near State Route 37. A gun was also found nearby.
Lt. Roseboro says his office is...
Authorities have identified the body found on the side of Interstate 70 Westin Licking County.
According to the Granville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the man is 62-year-old Laurence Shelly, whose last known address was in Dublin, Ohio.
Shelly's body was found shortly after 3 o'clock Monday in a ditch off I-70 near State Route 37.
The cause of death is still unknown and the case remains under investigation.
The Granville Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a body found in a ditch off Interstate 70 westbound in Licking County Monday afternoon.
According to Lt. Lawrence Roseboro, motorists called 911 around 3 p.m. after spotting the man's body just west of Hebron near mile post 125.
"Apparently some individuals were driving by and saw what appeared to be a body. We responded to the scene along with local emergency personnel and determined it was...
A family is still searching for answers in the murder of Priscilla Dawn Hickman.
Hickman was found strangled to death in her heath home January 18, 2009. Her case remains unsolved and now Hickman's two sisters, Michelle Laverty and Rosanna Root, are raising awareness about her murder.
"I think a lot of times people, if they don't hear about it in the news they assume it is solved, they assume something must have happened and that is certainly not the case here,"...
More than 900 doses of the H1N1 Vaccine in Licking County are part of a nationwide recall. The recall is not safety related
The Centers for Disease Control announced that manufacturer MedImmune was voluntarily recalling approximately 4.7 million doses of the nasal spray H1N1 vaccine.
The reason is due to the potency of the vaccine.
Licking County Health Commissioner Joe Ebel says individuals who received this vaccine do not need to...
The Licking County Emergency Management Agency is cleaning up a 13 mile diesel fuel spill.
A waste management truck blew a fuel injector around 9:30 Thursday morning and spilled fuel down Linnville road from US 40 to Ohio 13. When the fuel hit the wet pavement, Deputy Director Steven Smith says, it made the roadway like ice.
"We had a report of a 3 vehicle accident, 2 people were transported to the hospital, I don't know the extent of injuries," says...
Crews are on the scene of a diesel fuel spill in Licking County that has closed Linville road between US 40 to State Route 13 at this hour.
According to a dispatcher with the Granville Post of the State Highway Patrol, a waste management vehicle with a broken fuel line spilled diesel fuel on Linnville road around 9:30 a.m.
As a result, the State Patrol is on the scene of three accidents.
The Licking County Emergency Management...
