Dave Nethers

1 week ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

SANDUSKY, Ohio (WJW) – On Monday, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office began issuing epinephrine auto-injectors, or EpiPens, to deputies for the first time ever as an additional means to help save lives when there is no time to waste. In their patrol vehicles, peace officers across the state have carried tourniquets, bandages, Narcan and other first aid items in addition to being able to use CPR training to help save lives.

2 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

AVON LAKE, Ohio (WJW) — One year ago, a Total Solar Eclipse passed directly through areas of Northeast Ohio giving residents here and visitors a spectacle which, for many, will be a once in a lifetime event. That event was preceded here by planning that started in the spring of 2021, with the expectation of drawing as many as one million people to the state of Ohio from around the world, tens of thousands of them converging on Lorain County.

2 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

WAKEMAN, Ohio (WJW) – Drake Munroe, his cousin Morrison and their friend Connor Dawson were not supposed to be together on Saturday. The three ended up taking a friend out to dinner for his birthday, but they went to the wrong restaurant. On the way home, they were advised by a relative to avoid Route 60 through Wakeman as the rain-swollen Vermillion River threatened to crest its banks over the road.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dave Nethers

RAVENNA, Ohio (WJW) — While researching gravesites at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Ravenna, Christine Untrauer said she stumbled on the photo of 21-year-old Willie Ross Dennis. In the photo, she found he was dressed in a military uniform and soon realized he died while serving his country in South Vietnam in January 1968. “He was a young man when he went off to war. He was in Vietnam for just a month when he died,” she said.

2 weeks ago | fox8.com | Dave Nethers

RAVENNA, Ohio (WJW) — While researching gravesites at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Ravenna, Christine Untrauer said she stumbled on the photo of 21-year-old Willie Ross Dennis. In the photo, she found he was dressed in a military uniform and soon realized he died while serving his country in South Vietnam in January 1968. “He was a young man when he went off to war. He was in Vietnam for just a month when he died,” she said.