Smoking increases among Ohio's high school students
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 30, 2013From health classes to anti-smoking campaigns, high school students are discouraged from smoking.
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Renovation talks for old National Guard Armory at standstill
By Sam Howard | Oct. 30, 2013Without a clear-cut plan in place, the old National Guard Armory won’t be seeing renovations anytime soon.
Arming area schools seems to be holstered
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 29, 2013From a school shooting in Chardon, Ohio, last year to one in Sparks, Nev., this month, mass school shootings are becoming all too familiar, and school boards throughout the country are scrambling to find a way to prevent the acts from repeating.
Candidates debate future of Athens' school district
By Sam Howard | Oct. 29, 2013The 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.
Drug overdoses, addiction have become prevalent in Athens
By Emma Ockerman | Oct. 29, 2013Pharmacists 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.
Murray City official pleads guilty
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 29, 2013The 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.
Commissioners plan to address fracking
By Olivia Bower | Oct. 29, 2013The Athens County Commissioners decided Tuesday to host a public meeting to discuss local citizens’ concerns about injection wells in Athens County.
Glouster man is indicted for murder of his father
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 28, 2013A 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.
Abortion regulations cause problems for Planned Parenthood
By Emma Ockerman | Oct. 28, 2013Due to Ohio’s more recent abortion restrictions, which took effect this month, women’s health care in Ohio could be compromised.
Notes left on bank lead to complaint against APD officer
By Allan Smith | Oct. 27, 2013After 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.
Court Street Craze
By Joshua Jamerson | Oct. 27, 2013There 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.
Railway offers historical, scenic tours
By Suhyeon Park | Oct. 24, 2013Mother 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.
Glouster vandal confesses to murder
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 23, 2013A 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 plan for block party
By Sam Howard | Oct. 22, 2013City officials assembled at Mayor Paul Wiehl’s weekly news conference Tuesday to address the city’s upcoming Halloween Block Party this weekend.
Searching for Sasquatch
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 22, 2013Once a month, during spring, summer and fall, Doug Waller packs his bags and heads to the woods.
Athens school halls to be randomly monitored
By XANDER ZELLNER | Oct. 22, 2013With 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.
Council discusses gun sale, budgets
By Emma Ockerman | Oct. 21, 2013Athens 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.
Land donation sparks debate among county commissioners
By Olivia Bower | Oct. 21, 2013Before 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.
McDavis agrees to pay woman hit by OU bus double what she initially sought
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 21, 2013It 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.
RA's lawyer cites sleepwalking in thefts
By Kelly Fisher | Oct. 21, 2013A 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.
