Phil and Susan Penix spend their Friday afternoons a little differently now than they did four months ago. “It's just like a scab that just won't heal,” Phil said. Their Hilliard living room is now like a memorial for their youngest daughter, Courtney.

The Ohio Attorney General declared "we have an epidemic," and that epidemic is heroin and other opiate-based drugs. "(Opiates are) tearing apart families ... (it affects) both sexes, all races, and all income levels," said Mike DeWine during a "Taking Back Our Communities" conference Thursday at Wooster Nazarene Church. The daylong event aimed to engage […]

Five search warrants were executed Thursday as law enforcement officers investigated the death of a Tiffin man. Detective Chuck Boyer, Seneca County Drug Task Force - METRICH Enforcement Unit coordinator, said officers were looking for residents and any evidence related to the investigation into the death of Nathan Hunker, 32. Randall S. Mentzer, 30, had […]

A public conference Thursday is aimed at rallying the faith-based community toward addressing the opiate epidemic. The conference, organized by the local opiate task force of community leaders and supported by the Ohio Attorney General's Office, will be held at Wooster Church of the Nazarene, 3100 Oak Hill Road, at 9 a.m., and is free […]

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspected heroin overdose of a 23-year-old woman and how it may, or may not, be involved in the death of the woman's child born just hours earlier. Capt. Doug Hunter said deputies are investigating the death of Kimberly Karosy, who lived on Second Street in Sterling (Milton […]