CLEVELAND -Whether for President Bush or Sen. John Kerry, the proliferation of political posters stuck in yards, taped to windows and plastered on buildings is a sign of the times: a neck-and-neck presidential contest in battleground Ohio.
BERLIN -Germany's intelligence chief said yesterday he believes Osama bin Laden is alive and continues to exert influence in his al-Qaeda terror network.
UNITED NATIONS -In Sierra Leone, one in four children dies before age 5. In Iraq, one in 10 does not make it to a fifth birthday. Across the globe, poor care for newborns, malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and measles snuff out lives of the very young, according to a U.N. report.
WASHINGTON -Half a dozen investigations into U.S. intelligence failures on Iraq have reached similar conclusions: limited and unreliable information from inside Iraq
Federal Hocking and Trimble high schools joined the ranks of 102 schools in Ohio given the title of State Superintendent's Schools Of Promise by the Ohio Department of Education for the 2003-04 school year.
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -An Israeli missile strike yesterday killed two Palestinian teenagers who were playing with a tube and a gasoline-filled bottle in a game imitating militants firing rockets at Israel, relatives said.
Senequa Barnes, the woman accused of the stabbing at Pawpurrs Aug. 20, was arraigned Wednesday in Athens County Common Pleas Court.
The Second City is heading for Athens -and it's bringing an Ohio University alumna.
For more than three years, Tom Green has contained his geekdom within the walls of his comic book store. But now, he's branching out.
Ohio University moms and dads will get to see the fruits of their labor this weekend when they descend upon Athens for another action-packed edition of Parents Weekend. However, instead of spending all of the weekend with their sons and daughters frequenting various Uptown establishments, they should take in some of the new additions to OU.
A candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court spoke last night at the American Legion for the Athens County Republican Party's annual fall dinner.
COLUMBUS -Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has sued the state in federal court to force his name onto the November ballot.
As the popularity of Alden Library's new Learning Commons, which opened at the beginning of this quarter, continues to grow, some Ohio University students have found it increasingly hard to find an open computer terminal at which to work.
WASHINGTON -Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said yesterday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such weapons had dimmed -not grown -during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S. invasion.
The Ohio volleyball team stretched its winning streak to six matches Wednesday night with a three-game win against Mid-American Conference opponent Kent State, 30-20, 32-30, 30-24.
Two Ohio swimmers will compete against some of the best swimmers in the world this weekend at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis.
De La Soul will never make another 3 Feet High and Rising
The Athens Area Chamber of Commerce announced yesterday the forming of a committee that will campaign against Issue 2 on the November ballot.
Broomball lets the guys, the girls, the good, the bad enjoy themselves
Had SMiLE been released as planned in 1967, we can now say with certainty that it would have
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