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Catching up with Lindsey K. Donehue-Angler

Catching up with Lindsey K. Donehue-Angler

Judge Michael Ernest wrote that Sajjaad J. Butler did not meet the standard required to allow a defendant to withdraw a plea after sentencing

Attorneys presented arguments on Tuesday about why a Canton man should or should not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in a murder case

Sajjaad J. Butler askes to withdraw guilty plea in murder, says his lawyers were ineffective

Judge Ernest sentences 30-year-old man to 120 days in jail for crimes of public indecency and attempted voyeurism involving a 14-year-old girl

Murder suspect Sajjaad J. Butler to have change of plea hearing today

Murder confession suppression hearing to resume Wednesday

The Times-Reporter NEW PHILADELPHIA Zachary A. Bloom had to be revived with an opioid overdose antidote after he drove across the median of U.S. Route 250 early on the afternoon of Aug. 16, 2018, according to assistant Tuscarawas County prosecutor Scott Deedrick.  The Midvale resident, high on fentanyl, drove a car head-on into a pickup driven by a Jewett man, 45. The trucks passenger was a coworker, a 60-year-old woman from the village of Tuscarawas. She suffered a spinal fracture, Deedrick ...

The Times-Reporter NEW PHILADELPHIA - A judge has denied bail for a former Newcomerstown-area resident who is facing a possible life sentence if convicted of child rape. Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Ernest decided Tuesday that 27-year-old David Levi Yoder of Westcliffe, Colo. will stay in the county jail while awaiting trial. Yoder has pleaded not guilty to two counts of child rape, four counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of having unlawful sexual conduct wit...