Police agencies throughout Hamilton County want your help in identifying heroin dealers. You can do it anonymously through tip lines the sheriff's department and police chiefs have put in the public eye on posters and bumper stickers and other materials that police are circulating. It's a new campaign dubbed "Not in my Neighborhood" that members of […]

Before he became an addict, Upper Sandusky resident Jarod Voorhees had it all. With five children, a good-paying job and a wife he loved dearly, Voorhees, 40, owned his own home and vehicles. Some would say Voorhees had it made with a seemingly perfect life. But underneath his perfect life, Voorhees, a man born and […]

While the number of Wayne County deaths attributed to an overdose of drugs in 2015 is not yet finalized, the figures available now show a 50 percent increase, the health commissioner said. Nick Cascarelli shared with members of the board of health the 18 overdose deaths so far in 2015. Of those, 17 were opiate-related. […]

Oftentimes, the tragic results of drug abuse is widely publicized, while the efforts to stamp out the spread of its use go unnoticed. On the front line of the war against drugs, Medway Drug Enforcement Agency realizes education is, perhaps, the best weapon. "We've been going in and having open discussions with students about drugs, […]

It’s everywhere. That was the consensus on heroin Tuesday afternoon during a town hall meeting in Independence hosted by radio station WTAM-1100’s Mike Trivisonno. “It’s in every suburb, it’s in every city, it’s everywhere,” he said. Our interest in the discussion was in narcotics detective Gregg Mehling of the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, who gave […]