BAGHDAD -The U.S. ambassador to Iraq acknowledged serious problems ahead of next weekend's election but gave assurance yesterday that great efforts were being made to ensure every Iraqi can vote. In an audiotape posted on the Web, a speaker claiming to be Iraq's most feared terrorist declared fierce war on democracy, raising the stakes in the vote.
Federal Hocking High School students and area residents did some not so dirty dancing Friday at the Federal Valley Resource Center.
Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a 1930s London stage diva past her prime who thinks the world revolves around her. She struts across a room like it's a stage and manipulates people in her life like props.
LOS ANGELES -Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, died yesterday. He was 79.
Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers does not feature Teri Hatcher, anyone from the show Nip/Tuck or any other winners from Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards. Moviegoers are better off for it.
The Ohio women's swimming and diving and men's and women's track and field teams had an unscheduled break from their respective competitions this weekend because of poor weather.
With less than three weeks before the first match in the final round of qualifying for World Cup 2006, the U.S. Soccer Federation and the players' union averted a disastrous chain of events by agreeing to settle their dispute about player compensation at a later date.
The Ohio University Curriculum Council pushed the proposal for a major in women's studies into its final stages after it unanimously passed the curriculum breakdown.
What started off as a strong Mid-American Conference season for the women's basketball team -the lead in the MAC East Division -has slowly started to diminish with each loss.
If the Ohio men's basketball team's heart continues to get broken, it will take all the king's horses and all the king's men to put it back together again.
In what would prove to be a long weekend for the Ohio hockey team, the Bobcats were able to split a pair of battles in Bird Arena against conference foe Eastern Michigan.
The abandoned buildings that used to be Nelsonville's high school and middle school -used for the occasional Nelsonville-York wrestling team practice -may soon be converted to middle-income housing units.
If a student's court case winds up in front of a jury in Athens Municipal Court, it is unlikely that his or her peers will be listening to the case because of the method for selecting jury members for the court.
An Ohio University student died Saturday in his hometown of Saint Marys after a long battle with cancer.
Robin Krivesti has a job that movie buffs might dream of.
There comes a time in every athlete's career when they decide if their sport is something that they want to pursue the rest of their lives. For Ohio wrestling coach Joel Greenlee, that moment came in 1986.
For one Saturday afternoon, all of college football will revolve around Ohio football coach Frank Solich.
The Ohio men's and women's indoor track and field team has their jitters out, as Jericka Duncan likes to put it, and they are ready for another meet this weekend.
Almost two years ago, former Ohio University President Robert Glidden implemented a hiring freeze to help OU become a more cost-efficient institution, said Jim Kemper, assistant vice president for administration for human resources.
A 56 percent increase in the total cost of Medicaid from 2001 to 2005 has set off alarms in state government, calling for changes to stop the drain on the state budget.
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