Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Violence Protection Program (SVPP) announced a grant of $374,702 benefiting the Hocking County Sheriff’s Department and Logan-Hocking Local School District.
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The spotlight was on Circleville Wednesday as Sofidel held it’s official opening and ribbon cutting at their new facility on the south side of the city.
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The Fairfield County Overdose Response Team, or Project FORT, is launching its expansion on October 10. The focus is to help drug users get treatment.
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The House easily approved a bill Friday aimed at reducing the number of Americans addicted to opioids, a measure that includes a section from Sen. Rob Portman to make it more difficult to use the mail system to send fentanyl into the United States.
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As Congress heads into its last few days in session this month, some fear an act that funds services for hundreds of thousands of domestic violence and sexual assault victims won’t be reauthorized before it expires on Sept. 30.
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We don’t want to think the incidence of trauma is increasing in central Ohio, but it’s good to have more specialized care available for gunshot and auto-accident victims when they need it.
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A bill introduced by Representative Steve Stivers (R-OH) aimed to close a loophole for newly hired veterans in medical positions with the Department of Veterans Affairs has been signed into law.
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President Donald Trump on Saturday signed into a law that would allow veterans in working as doctors, nurses and other medical positions at the Department of Veterans to take a paid sick leave related to their service-related conditions or injuries.
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On a hill in the woods near Nelsonville is the site of the former Hocking Correctional Facility that closed earlier this year. The future of the site has been discussed many times in detail.
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A growing number of counties across Ohio have formed overdose-response teams to work with survivors of drug overdoses and their families to get them into addiction treatment and other help as soon as possible.
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