The winds blew hard on Stimson Field Friday morning as four Blackhawk helicopters landed to pick up about 50 Ohio University Army ROTC cadets for a weekend at Camp Dawson in eastern West Virginia.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military has shut down Camp Cropper, an increasingly notorious makeshift prison where hundreds of Iraqis were crowded into tents through Baghdad's scorching summer, a U.S. official reported yesterday. The detainees were scattered to other facilities.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of men claiming to be former Iraqi soldiers converged at a U.S. base in central Baghdad and in the southern city of Basra yesterday, demanding financial assistance in a second day of violent protests.
Details have been released regarding the Uptown car accident last weekend that left one female injured.
The Ohio football team had an upset within vision but could not finish it and lost, 30-23, in overtime at No. 16 Northern Illinois Saturday.
Two students and one professor from Ohio University left for Liberia Thursday to launch the filming of a documentary they plan to create when they return to Athens later this month.
COLUMBUS - The state is studying the idea of outsourcing human resource processes to a private company, even though it has already spent $9.1 million to improve the way state employees do the work.
TOLEDO - The state's lowered drunken-driving threshold has led to 155 arrests in the first two months after the law took effect, according to the State Highway Patrol.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As the number of women claiming they were groped by Arnold Schwarzenegger grew to 15 yesterday, the actor headed for a campaign march in Sacramento, while Gov. Gray Davis signed a law making California the largest state to require employer-paid health care.
ATLANTA - A woman opened fire at an Atlanta church before services started yesterday morning, killing her mother and the minister before committing suicide.
The crowd erupts as the call is made: Five on blue! The call signifies a bull's eye for the participant on the blue target in the ax throw, one of the many events at the Paul Bunyan Show.
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights - Israel bombed a target inside Syria that it claimed was an Islamic Jihad training base, striking deep inside its neighbor's territory yesterday for the first time in three decades and widening its pursuit of Palestinian militants.
WASHINGTON - The former diplomat whose wife's identity as a CIA officer was disclosed by the Bush administration said yesterday that the leak has put her life in danger, and the government is not protecting her.
Raising money for charity has never looked so good.
The Tokyo String Quartet enchanted an audience of almost 600 with their chamber music performance Friday night at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.
LAS VEGAS - Roy Horn, the illusionist of the Siegfried & Roy duo who was mauled by one of his tigers during a show, was able to communicate with doctors but still was in critical condition and on a ventilator yesterday.
When the 2003 field hockey season is over, Ohio's victory Saturday will be just another notch in the win column. This weekend, however, it meant a lot more.
Solutions by The State News