The 740 area code could be exhausted by 2015, leaving the state with two possible solutions: splitting the current 740 region into two area codes or installing an overlay that would allow existing numbers to stay the same and force new subscribers onto the new code.
A former Ohio University student, accused but innocent of rape in 2009, has asked the Athens County Common Pleas Court to remove the record in his case from public access in a hearing Friday.
Despite a loophole in Ohio law that apparently allows landlords to collect a profit while functioning as a middleman between tenants and utility companies, many Athens area landlords say they are avoiding the practice altogether.
Athens City Council members Monday, in the process of making more than a $200,000 payment on an almost-two-year-old fire truck, made it clear: The city desperately needed a new ladder, and it has been worth the money.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office issued four additional subpoenas to Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly this month, authorities said, but unlike previous subpoenas served to the sheriff, details are limited.
After a month’s worth of research from his office, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Monday he will oversee the creation of a new unit within his office to fight heroin use statewide.
There’s nothing a little Goof-Off and a morning spent scrubbing, painting and scraping can’t fix.
Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly’s office seized eight meth labs Friday during an operation in conjunction with the Waterloo Fire Department and Athens County Children’s Services.
An Ohio man was granted eight extra months of life after being put back on death row Wednesday, a day before he was to be executed by the state.
The Athens County Sheriff’s Office seized more than 200 grams of cocaine and other drugs this past Thursday in a combined effort with six other law enforcement entities.
Charlene Cravens wakes up to go to work knowing she might be cussed out for doing her job well.
Sometimes a man just needs a little retail therapy.
The Athens Police Department has several surveillance cameras on Court Street that can clearly be seen from sidewalks, but they might not be able to see in detail the happenings along Athens’s main drag.
An 83-year-old Nelsonville woman fended off a “school-aged” burglar with her cane Monday, authorities said.
Veterans Day can be bittersweet.
Reba Robinson, the pantry coordinator at Friends and Neighbors Community Choice Food Center in Coolville, said she’s torn between feelings of generosity and fear. She wants to help struggling families, but her inventory is shrinking.
As soon as 2014, Ohioans could take their inhibitions out of a brown bag and drink openly in the streets within municipal “entertainment districts.”
ith Ohio University’s graduation only six months away, many seniors are up to their waists in job and graduate school applications and also looking for places to live.
Athens City Council’s Planning and Development Committee began discussion on the demolition of a 120-year-old house located at 667 E. State St. at its Oct. 28 meeting. The house, which Mayor Paul Wiehl said once housed a family of Hurricane Katrina survivors, was built in 1893 and remodeled in 1988.
A local nonprofit organization is looking for $6,000 in financial support from the Athens County Commissioners to continue functioning in the county.
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