Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WAVERLY, Ohio – The 2016 killing of eight people in Pike County is often cited as one of Ohio’s most dramatic crimes. The legal ...

Four members of the Wagner family are set to appear in the Pike County Common Pleas Court on Friday. If the hearings happen it will be the first time the Wagners have been in the same location on the ...

George "Billy" Wagner exits through a rear door of the Pike County Courthouse after a March 2024 hearing. He is jailed in Butler County. The final defendant in the 2016 Pike County massacre case will ...

A Blooming Grove Township man will spend up to 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony offenses involving ...

Less than a month after George Wagner IV was sentenced in the 2016 Pike County massacre case, his father will appear in the same courtroom on the same charges that earned Wagner IV a sentence that ...

WAVERLY, Ohio (WKRC) – Court proceedings for the Pike County massacre were back in session Thursday, but not about who should go to prison forkilling eight members of a single family in 2016. Instead, ...

Rita Jo Newcomb, left, and Fredericka Wagner appeared in a Pike County courthouse Thursday for hearings. The two are accused of helping cover up the murders of eight members of the Rhoden family.

An appeals court upheld the conviction of a former Pike County deputy who violated an inmate's civil rights by punching and pepper-spraying him while he was restrained in a chair. However, his ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - George “Billy” Wagner III was back in court Monday as the judge hearing the case heard arguments for and against moving the case. The Wagner defense team told retired Darke ...

A federal jury in Columbus has convicted a former Pike County Sheriff's Office deputy of civil rights violations for unlawful use of force in the brutal beating and pepper-spraying of a jail inmate ...