You win the thread.
I live in Lucas County, OH. I’ll narrow it down to three but they’re all such old news as to no longer be famous to anyone but history buffs.
A) The Toledo War of 1835 between Ohio and Michigan. Ohio won and got Toledo, Michigan got the UP.
B) The 1919 world heavyweight title bout in which Jack Dempsey first won the title from Jess Willard.
C) The 1934 Auto-Lite strike, one of the three most important events in US labor history.
The weirdest news story out of Toledo has to be Fr. Gerald Robinson’s ritual murder of a nun on Holy Saturday in 1980, for which no suspect was found until 2003.
Another one from Fort Wayne, Myrtle Young died today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuH1PhzOVR4
True story: During the Depression, one of my Great Grandmother’s sisters moved to Texas City. Granny and her sister maintained a correspondence for years, but after March of 1947, Granny never heard another word. We’ve always wondered whether my great-great aunt was one of the unidentified victims of the explosion.
Sorry, Loach said I won! 
I misread the thread as country - so the 1996 Dunblane Massacre, for that one.
We don’t really do counties here, my nearest major city is Glasgow, I think the Clutha Vaults helicopter crash last year made the US news (one of the victims was from my town, so I’ll claim that as also counting for my local authority area). It also got a mention here.
The Station Nightclub Fire … about a mile and a half from where I was living at the time.
In recent memory, probably the beltway sniper shootings, as they took place in MD.
Nothing much in the county I live in, but in Grafton County, NH, in recent years, the Zantop murders.
The release of Nelson Mandela is probably the biggest thing to come out of my city overall. In my particular suburb, probably the world’s first heart transplant, in 1967, was the most newsworthy event.
Where I’m from:
Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK
Well back in 1266, during The Second Baron’s War there was the Siege of Kenilworth, which is believed to be the longest siege in English history.
Around the same time tradition dictates that at Parliament Piece Henry III held the first English parliament.
Both sites were about a ten minute walk from my childhood home.
Where I live now:
Stockholm, Sweden.
I’m not up on Swedish history, but you all probably know about that syndrome thing.
Three miles or so from where I grew up was where the Moors murders happened, which is probably the biggest thing.
Stole my answer. :mad:
Whoa, dude. As soon as I read your post, I was transported back to grade school where I read a book about that. The doc described holding the heart in his hands – it must have made a big impression on me because I can picture the classroom where I read it.
Probably the Schenectady Massacre in the French and Indian War
The Zodiac killer visited us here in the beautiful Napa Valley.
This was going to be my choice too, but I would love to hear the talk radio take on the Burning of the Gaspee.
That’s stretching a little to include the entire Houston metroplex area. If we limit it to Houston / Harris County, we have a juicy murder case, our “O. J. Simpson” type circus. In 1969, Houston socialite Joan Robinson Hill died under suspicious circumstances and her husband was tried for murder. His trial ended with a mistrial and he was shot to death in the doorway of his home. That lead to another massive trial of Lilla Paulus, a local madam who apparently hired the hitman.
The whole story is told quite well in Thomas Thompson’s book Blood and Money. I have a personal interest in it because I went to high school with Lilla Paulus’ daughter, who wound up being a star witness against her.
History wise, probably the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Criminally, probably this
If you want to go way back, there was the riot in the courthouse in 1768 during the War of the Regulation. Six of the Regulators were hanged here in 1771.
More recently, the one thing I can think of that most people would have heard of would be the legal tussle between Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young in regards to getting her sex tape with Johnny Edwards back (y’all can decide exactly how “newsworthy” that was).
Hurricane Katrina