FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. warplanes and artillery attacked Sunni insurgents holed up in a slum in a thunderous show of force that rocked Fallujah yesterday, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the night sky. The assault came after American troops killed 64 gunmen near the southern city of Najaf.
Yesterday was Journalism Day at Ohio University. It seems fitting, then, to review the place of journalism in society.
Although it incorporates powerful images of war crisply edited over a suspenseful score, The Fog of War is a reflection of one man's lessons, rather than a documentation of America at battle.
YOUNGSTOWN -- John Kerry's promise to create new jobs was met with enthusiasm yesterday in an area hit hard by unemployment.
In yesterday's Athens County Commissioner's meeting, the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks proposed purchasing the Nelsonville Entrepreneurship Center and Business Incubator building for $2 million. The commissioners support the proposal.
COLUMBUS - A secret plan to destroy the political career of Ohio's secretary of state was the work of overzealous staffers frustrated with the secretary's proposal to roll back a penny sales-tax increase, House Speaker Larry Householder said yesterday.
Former Post sports editor Eric Pfahler told me around the time of baseball's opening day how different it was watching the Pirates after covering them for MLB.com the previous summer. After my first stint following a team, I see what he meant.
Chris Bova was named the Mid-American Conference East Division Pitcher of the Week after pitching a complete game one-hitter against Buffalo Friday.
Seventy-three percent of scholarship student-athletes who enrolled at Ohio University in 1997-98 as freshmen earned undergraduate degrees, according to new graduation rate data released Thursday by the Ohio Athletics Department. The number is the highest in eight years.
It turns out that the American Collegiate Hockey Association National Championship trophy was not the last award that the Ohio hockey team would receive this year.
If you have to start pulling up your pants, I'll have to start tying my shoes, and then where will we be? I have a bad back, and I can't reach that far. Some Democrat down in Louisiana introduced a bill last week making it a violation of the law to wear one's pants too low. This offense would be punishable by a $500 fine and six months in jail. The idiot finds low-riding pants to be offensive. So the Chief of the Fashion Police is doing us all quite the favor by making it illegal.
WASHINGTON - Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members delivered an unusual public rebuke to more liberal justices yesterday, accusing them of ducking an important church-state fight over mealtime prayers at a taxpayer-funded military college.
After dropping its second consecutive game and five of its last seven, the Ohio baseball team heads to Youngstown State today looking to pick up the pieces.
Like many college students, I am a compulsive watcher of sports, specifically ESPN. I am always looking to see what is going on in the world of sports.
In an age of political apathy, about the only thing that could incite real passion from young voters on college campuses across the nation is the one thing no politician should want to mention. In what may be the most telling condemnation of reinstating the draft in America, the senator who first re-ignited discussion of it, Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., admitted that the issue was radioactive in an election year. The fact that the draft, dormant for 31 years, is enough to kill political careers is proof that it is not a feasible option for the United States. The idea of a draft is flawed for many reasons, and if the Bush administration or any future presidency must resort to it, they must seriously re-examine their foreign policy decisions.
Ohio University students are donning their favorite pairs of flip-flops and sandals in celebration of the warmer spring weather. But with just a piece of foam rubber protecting their feet from the ground, students might find themselves with long- and short-term foot pain.
The other day I found myself lucky enough to talk with a friend I have not seen since she chose Purdue and I went with Ohio University.
MINNEAPOLIS - President Bush pushed high-tech proposals in a politically important state yesterday, calling for computerizing all patient health care records within 10 years and permanently banning taxes on high-speed Internet access.
Most parents would be apprehensive about their son trading in his baseball mitt for a lightweight fiberglass pole to fly 15 feet through the air. But Mike and Tonja Troyer are different.
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