A former Ohio University student who was in the car when OU senior Terris Ross was killed last year now says a botched drug deal might have led to the shooting and can describe a man he thinks was involved.
Penny-pinching students and Athens residents can learn how to budget their money with a free seminar given by the Ohio University Credit Union tonight.
QUITO, Ecuador --Tired but excited, 80 young women from around the world went through their last practice sessions for the Miss Universe pageant, as political turmoil boiled around them in this small Andean nation.
PARIS - Venus Williams peered through the rain drops at the Day-Glo yellow letters and numbers dotting the black scoreboard.
BATON ROUGE, La. -Former Bobcat Byron Gibson competed in his first NCAA Regional meet as a hurdler/sprinter for the Alabama Crimson Tide this weekend, after transferring from Ohio following his freshman year.
I just learned that David McCullough will be paid $30,000, plus expenses, to be Ohio University's commencement speaker this year. Wow! He must be really important.
(U-WIRE) -Criticism of the president's policy on embryonic stem cell research piqued recently. More than 200 members of Congress, including the Senate's only doctor, Republican Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist, signed a letter in support of increased stem cell research. President George W. Bush merely appeased his right-wing, anti-abortion base by announcing in 2001 that federal funding would be available for stem cell lines discovered prior to August 2001 but not for stem cell lines created after this date.
Ohio University officials have told Professor Larry Nighswander, who is being sued for sexual harassment by a former student, that he should resign or risk being fired.
Three and a half years after witnessing hardship in a third world country, Tomoko Nishida, an Ohio University graduate now doing social work in Chicago, is still touched by the collective strength and leadership of the women in Nicaraguan villages. They were extremely hospitable, even though they didn't have much, she said.
Flooding is something Paul Lenigar is getting used to. He moved from Sharpsburg to his home in Glouster in 1998, and flooding that year hit before he and his wife Velma had unpacked their boxes.
The SATs are getting a makeover.
Washington -More than 100,000 people attended the dedication of the new World War II Memorial Saturday on the mall. The memorial first was open to the public last month, more than 55 years after the war ended.
More and more doctors are asking courts to resolve this question: Who has the final say in childbirth options? The most recent case involves a Philadelphia woman who, after giving birth naturally to six children who each weighed about 12 pounds, was told by Wilkes-Barre General Hospital doctors that she had to deliver her seventh, an 11-pound, 9-ounce girl, by Caesarean section.
At Ohio University, Sigma Gamma Rho does not have massive pledge classes. They do not live in a house filled with other sorority members. Their responsibilities and duties are not spread among multiple hierarchical positions. This is because Sigma Gamma Rho, a historically black sorority, is only composed of two women.
The growing popularity of poker and other card games has led some Ohio University students to satisfy their cravings for Texas Hold 'em online.
The summer before I came to Ohio University, I worked in a packaging factory for ten dollars an hour. Every morning, I got up at 5:30, drove forty-five minutes to the factory, and loaded 30-pound boxes onto a skid for eight hours. This is where I first understood freedom and capitalism.
There's a feeling in the pit of the stomach that begins as a knot. It's exacerbated with the growing realization that the bad news is not a dream -it's reality, and that the beloved friend is not coming back.
Ohio University senior Christa Johnson, 22, died this weekend after suffering unexplained heart complications at her home in Highland Heights, Ohio.
An Athens resident was found guilty yesterday in an Athens County Court of Common Pleas jury trial yesterday on felony charge of failure to appear in court.
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