MANSFIELD — MANSFIELD — The 30th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, part two of a special two-part episode, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell talks about how a 43-year-old Mansfield murder mystery was recently solved. He is joined again by Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann, Detective Terry Butler and […]
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News Man Weekly: Mansfield police on the hunt for a brutal, cold-case killer
MANSFIELD — The 29th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, part of a special two-part episode, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell talks about how a 43-year-old Mansfield murder mystery was recently solved. He is joined by Mansfield police chief Jason Bammann, Detective Terry Butler and DNA expert […]
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News Man Weekly: Life and Death of Bucyrus Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger
MANSFIELD — The 28th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell focuses his discussion on U.S. Army MSgt. Matthew Livelsberger, a 2005 Bucyrus High School graduate, who killed himself and blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel on […]
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DNA helps to solve brutal, 43-year-old Mansfield murder case
MANSFIELD — The brutal 1981 murder of Deborah L. Miller was one that retired Mansfield police Lt. Dale Fortney could not forget. The 18-year-old’s dead naked body was found bludgeoned to death in her West Third Street apartment on April 29, 1981. It was a homicide that went more than unsolved for more than 40 […]
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Mansfield City Council OKs $862K for new, versatile mobile operations center
MANSFIELD — Police chief Jason Bammann asked for a mobile operations center that can be used for more than just emergencies. “This is a mobile billboard. This is something the Mansfield Police Department can be proud of and something the community can be proud of also,” Bammann told City Council on Tuesday evening. “I don’t […]
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Body of Mansfield teen discovered in Harrison County triggers multi-agency probe
CADIZ, Ohio — Ronald “Joe” Myers has been with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office for 39 years, the last 16 as sheriff. When he retires at the end of next month, Myers won’t miss calls like the one he got Friday. A body had been found, apparently dumped along a road in a wooded area […]
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Body of missing Mansfield teen found in Harrison County in eastern Ohio
MANSFIELD — The body of a missing 16-year-old Mansfield teenager has been found in Harrison County in eastern Ohio. Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann said Tuesday morning they were notified Monday by Harrison County authorities that a body fitting the description of Trentin Isaac had been found in a secluded area. He said the Cuyahoga […]
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New ‘shoot house’ enhances versatile training for Mansfield police dept.
MANSFIELD — Mansfield police Chief Jason Bammann found himself on the wrong side of the law Friday morning. But it was all in good fun. The chief was part of a nerf gun simulation of the the department’s recently completed “shoot house” at 310 Miller Parkway, which already has an outdoor shooting range and a […]
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Hostage-taker was chasing woman with knife when Mansfield police ended standoff
MANSFIELD — Michael Oswalt II was chasing his girlfriend from behind with a knife early Saturday morning when Mansfield police officers fatally ended his pursuit with gunfire, according to Chief Jason Bammann. The officer-involved shooting at 4:56 a.m. ended a three-hour, hostage standoff in a house at 200 Cline Ave. — a tense incident that […]
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UPDATED: Mansfield police fatally shoot suspect after three-hour hostage standoff Saturday
MANSFIELD — A three-hour hostage situation early Saturday morning ended with Mansfield police killing the suspect, according to Chief Jason Bammann. None of the victims in the incident were injured, he said. The suspect was identified Saturday afternoon as Michael Oswalt II, 41, according to Bob Ball, chief investigator for the Richland County Coroner’s Office. […]