A friend of mine back home is expecting his first son in six months. The moment he takes his first breath, he will owe more than $50,000 to the national debt. Less than two years ago, that number would have been below $45,000.
Post Managing Editor Adam Wagner runs down today's top stories, including the third story in Bridget Mallon's "Making the Commitment in College" series and a story on West 82.
The first time Ohio lost back-to-back games this season, it was at the hands of Bowling Green. When the two teams meet again Wednesday night, Ohio will be looking to avoid losing a third consecutive game.
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Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series exploring the relationship statuses of Ohio University students.
Local residents and students won’t have to travel about 1,000 miles to New Orleans to find the beads and cuisine of Mardi Gras this weekend.
The West 82 Food Court in Baker University Center is ramping up its marketing efforts, introducing new items and trying to get the word out about the food featured there.
The mandolin is an 18th-century instrument, and the Backstreet Boys are a 1990s boy-band sensation; but together, they make for an unexpected surprise.
As a football player, David Carter sealed the edges of the line of scrimmage to give his teammates an advantage. Since that time, he has traded in the football gridiron for the “rough air” of entrepreneurship.
A 65-year-old retired schoolteacher seems like unlikely company among the young band members who make up the Andy Shaw Band, but Jim Shaw fits right into this family band.
An Ohio University senior’s mother will serve as another’s mother in the upcoming film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Students in Utah can get up in the morning, get dressed and decide which holster looks best with their jeans.
Follow The Post's live coverage of Saturday's men's basketball game between the Ohio Bobcats and the Bowling Green Falcons.
During player introductions at Ohio hockey games, easy-to-pronounce names from familiar-sounding places fill the air at Bird Arena: Schultz, Agnew, Pilmore and Gulch; Toledo, Pittsburgh, Akron and Cleveland.
Ohio University’s Student Senate will be fed a presentation at Wednesday’s meeting about one of students’ favorite subjects — food.
Appalachian nonprofits looking for help in a tough economy can find it in a locally based foundation that has been reconfirmed as a philanthropic organization.
Let’s all take a second and think about that one friend who is a pathological liar. You have never heard him or her utter one honest statement in your life.
Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts will create a new form of art when it merges its dance, theatre and film schools in fall 2013.
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