After having to keep cars at the Athens Fairgrounds for almost three months, Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly is getting a new parking lot for impounded cars and — possibly — about 25 sheriffs’ cruisers.
As the semester drags on and finals loom on the horizon, health is the last thing on many students’ minds. However, the rising diabetes percentage in Ohio may force students to reconsider their priorities.
Some critics of the city’s role, or lack thereof, in controlling the incident involving a public sex act Uptown are confused as to why no police officer witnessed the event.
A Logan man accepted a plea deal Wednesday to an indictment charging one count of felonious assault.
As soon as Ohio University was established in 1804, the next action of the committee that established the university was to create a Board of Trustees.
From health classes to anti-smoking campaigns, high school students are discouraged from smoking.
Without a clear-cut plan in place, the old National Guard Armory won’t be seeing renovations anytime soon.
From 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.
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.
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