With the ability to recover 85 percent of the contaminated water used in the hydraulic fracturing process, Cunningham Energy and Ohio senators hope to promote positive economic effects despite public outcry.
After paying off nearly $2 million worth of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fines, Athens City Council is breathing a sigh of relief. However, the sigh isn’t coming from an increase in budgetary breathing room, but rather an end to more than three decades worth of fine payments.
President Barack Obama announced Friday he would withdraw all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, but for members of Ohio University’s Army ROTC program ending more than eight years of conflict isn’t so cut-and-dry.
A 39-year-old man charged with gross sexual imposition will have his trial delayed for one year while his competency to stand trail will be tested at a Columbus behavioral health care center.
With officials statewide making a push for exotic-animal regulations following Tuesday’s Zanesville fiasco, Rep. Debbie Phillips, D-92nd, will propose legislation today that would ban new private ownership of exotic animals in Ohio.
A Gallipolis man charged with raping an Ohio University student and a local man charged with robbing a gas station at knifepoint both pleaded not guilty at their arraignment hearings yesterday.
For some, retirement means leaving the working world and picking up a general hobby. But for Marcia Van Bibber and her husband, Eddie, it means taking that hobby and transforming it into a small business.
A 25-year-old woman charged with killing her stepdaughter was found unfit to stand trial, following a court-appointed psychological evaluation.
Yesterday’s Athens City Council meeting brought to light Council’s compromises regarding energy contracts, residential unease over green space and worries for the city’s financial future.
As of yesterday, Ohioans are no longer allowed to possess, sell or manufacture chemicals found in “bath salts” and synthetic cannabinoids, both of which obtain chemicals that produce similar effects to that of marijuana.
Financial plans to implement the eighth-largest campus solar panel system in the nation are in the works between Hocking College officials and Third Sun Solar Power.
As a part of the Help America Vote Act, 92 precincts across the state of Ohio are set to receive grants for permanent polling improvements.
It was in Southeast Michigan at age 9 that local resident Jeff Wilson began to lay the foundational know-how that would lead to the creation of his passive solar pièce de résistance at 69 S. Shannon Ave.
The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services is cracking down on families who are not meeting the requirements to receive cash assistance from the state.
Despite a 30-cent raise in the Ohio minimum wage set for 2012, area workers and Uptown businesses are anticipating a minimal amount of change from the increase.
With the conclusion of Nancy Bain’s 26-year career as an Athens City Councilwoman looming, the race to put a new face on the 3rd ward is on.
Irked by the methods of area “kill shelters,” local animal rights activist Terri Ann Smith has run her own shelter for years. To help fund the effort, Smith recently opened a thrift store, a move that has raised questions from local officials.
Despite outcry against the use of carbon monoxide in dog shelter euthanasia, the Athens County Dog Shelter has no intentions of changing its current system of dealing with overcrowding.
After record spring rains delayed planting and damaged crops, some local farmers are fighting to stay afloat.
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