Vinton County

As of Monday, the agency had fielded about 60 requests to make donations to the children who were removed from a squalid Vinton County home, including two from Canada.

The discovery of 16 children living in deplorable conditions in rural Ohio has left people wondering why the life-threatening squalor wasn’t detected earlier.

The 16 children rescued from a home in Vinton County on Tuesday were living in a small room contaminated with human feces.

Four people were arrested and charged with multiple counts of felony child endangerment following the execution of a search warrant early Tuesday afternoon at a home in Vinton County.

Maude Collins became Vinton County’s sheriff in 1925, after her husband was killed in the line of duty.

A leak at the Austin Powder Plant forced residents in the southeast Ohio village of Zaleski to evacuate their homes last week.

A chemical reaction that created nitrogen oxide gas, which was vented to the atmosphere, forced evacuations and raised concerns in southeast Ohio on Wednesday, June 11.

More than a thousand households in Vinton County don’t have water service. Many people there haul water to their homes. But a $5.8 million grant could start to change that.

When the Vinton County Fair was canceled because of the pandemic, County Prosecutor Trecia Kimes-Brown wrote $100 checks to every child who completed a…

Even though Vinton County, Ohio, hasn't had high infection rates of the coronavirus, social restrictions have made it harder to keep drug users and their children safe, says Trecia Kimes-Brown.