The candidates for Athens City Schools Board of Education all agree on at least one thing: by and large, state policy enacted in Columbus hinders learning in Athens classrooms.
Pharmacists and other health officials in Athens are all too aware of the blurred lines between patients who are in dire need of prescription medicine and those who are just talented actors.
The Murray City police chief pleaded guilty to multiple charges Tuesday to receiving stolen property owned by Paul E. Roberts, a Glouster man allegedly murdered by his son.
The Athens County Commissioners decided Tuesday to host a public meeting to discuss local citizens’ concerns about injection wells in Athens County.
A grand jury indicted a Glouster man Monday for nine offenses, including one count of murder and another for aggravated murder, Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn said at a press conference Monday. Paul J. Roberts, 41, is accused of murdering his father, Paul E. Roberts, earlier this month.
Due to Ohio’s more recent abortion restrictions, which took effect this month, women’s health care in Ohio could be compromised.
After reprimanding three Ohio University students for putting up what were meant to be supportive Post-it notes at the scene of an alleged rape Uptown, Athens Police officer Neal Dicken is facing an informal complaint.
There were fewer arrests during the annual Athens Halloween Block Party on Saturday than there were last year, a fact that perhaps underscores the feeling of relative “tameness” during the event.
Mother nature didn’t seem to cooperate Thursday for one of the last Hocking Valley Scenic Railway tours, but Friday, when the last tour is scheduled, is expected to have sunny skies and no rain.
A Glouster man imprisoned since Friday confessed Wednesday morning that he killed his father, but law enforcement officials are skeptical to accept his testimony.
City officials assembled at Mayor Paul Wiehl’s weekly news conference Tuesday to address the city’s upcoming Halloween Block Party this weekend.
Once a month, during spring, summer and fall, Doug Waller packs his bags and heads to the woods.
With a slew of school shootings in recent memory, Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly announced Monday that his deputies will begin doing random “walkthroughs” at Athens County schools outside the city limits.
Athens City Council approved an ordinance Monday night that gives the police department permission to trade 55 firearms to a Cleveland-based company for the cash to buy the city’s cops new guns.
Before her death in 2012, Velma Cubbison, a Coolville woman, wanted to donate her six acres of forest and one acre of land with a creek near Wildman Rd. to the county, so she put it in her will.
It was an ordinary day two years ago when a Cincinnati woman was crossing a street when, all of a sudden, a Campus Area Transit Service bus struck her while she was in a crosswalk.
A former Ohio University resident assistant, accused of stealing items from two dorm rooms last Spring Semester while students were sleeping, pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary in a pretrial hearing Monday.
The Athens Police Department confirmed Monday that Ohio University student Rachel Cassidy is not the woman in the alleged rape that took place Uptown during Homecoming Weekend.
The Ohio Controlling Board approved an expansion of Medicaid in Ohio on Monday, bringing health insurance to thousands of previously uninsured Athens County residents.
Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn will meet with Athens Police officials Monday to decide whether the state of Ohio will press charges following the investigation of the alleged Court Street rape that was filmed and posted to Instagram.
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