A local man was sentenced Wednesday for dealing heroin laced with carfentanil and also attempting to murder a witness. Thirty-four-year-old Phillip Watkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The Department of Justice said Watkins was conspiring to distribute the drug with others in 2016 from a home in Elmwood Place. Carfentanil is an animal […]

The scene looks peaceful at first glance.  The young couple is cuddled under a blanket on a stormy November Sunday in Painesville.  But a closer look tells a more tragic story.  On the table in front of them is a line of white powder with a straw nearby.  The couple was found dead in their […]

As the holidays approach, Traci Cunningham said the emptiness inside of her caused by the loss of her son nearly 10 months ago hasn't faded. "I can't hug a memory, I can't hug a photo," Cunningham said. "My pain is never going to go away, it's always going to be here." Cunningham's son, 22-year-old Chance […]

After Daniel Eckhardt’s corpse was found on the side of a road in Hamilton County, Ohio, last year, police determined he died of a heroin overdose. Not long ago, law enforcement’s involvement would have ended there. But amid a national opioid-addiction crisis fueling an unprecedented wave of overdose deaths, the investigation was just beginning. Detectives interrogated witnesses and […]

As police continue looking for suspects named in a huge drug indictment in Columbiana County, dozens more are all free on bond Wednesday night. A day after authorities announced the largest drug case ever in the county, about 40 suspects made their first appearances in front of a judge. One by one, they walked up to […]