The big chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of some 300,000 West Virginia residents earlier this month has raised a number of concerns in everyone’s mind: Is our water safe?
The third Glouster man to be indicted in connection to an October murder was arraigned in the Athens County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, pleading not guilty to two charges.
A Nelsonville man was found guilty Wednesday of having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl in 2012.
Athens is home to passionate environmentalists, a university with the largest in-vessel composting system in the nation, and a growing organic food movement.
About 50 students rallied around the Board of Trustees’ buses to protest its recent decisions, including the president’s salary increase and tuition hikes.
While local and state law enforcement will have many officers and agents on the ground during fest season in Athens, festgoers can rest assured they will not be watched from above.
A collection of bills aimed at stressing voter identification and the prevention of voter fraud may make the way Ohioans cast their ballots in the 2014 senate elections a little different.
The Board of Trustees re-approved the base pay increase it originally granted illegally to President Roderick McDavis and his wife, Deborah, at its Friday meeting.
Athens’ notorious party-related history aside, service calls for narcotics, alcohol-related arrests and reports of assaults and vandalism have been on the downswing over the past few years, according to the Athens Police Department’s Annual Report.
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Ohio University’s first-year student trustee released the names of Student Senate colleagues and claimed that they stole nearly 1,000 issues of The Post — without proof of the students’ involvement and without first talking to police.
A delegation from Botswana was in Athens this week to meet with multiple Ohio University college representatives in an effort to better establish the school’s partnership with the country.
As much as the weather has had a hard time figuring out what to do with itself, the gas prices in Ohio are doing pretty much the same thing.
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A barrage of setbacks have marred the long-awaited opening of the Walter Fieldhouse for months, and this time inhospitable weather, delays in heating the facility and deliberation about drop-down netting will ultimately keep most students from setting foot on the facility’s artificial turf or track until Fall Semester.
After changing his plea from not guilty to guilty Tuesday, a man will enter the Athens County Prosecuting Attorney’s Diversion Program for taking more than $5,000 from a woman without providing his promised service.
A 21-year-old mother pleaded guilty Tuesday to one charge of theft after stealing more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from Athens Wal-Mart.
Ohio University’s first Board of Trustees meeting of the year will include discussion of disputed decisions from the end of last year.
The first senate member to resign was Kelsey Higgins, the director of interns, who put on her coat in the middle of the meeting and walked out after bursting into tears.
Winter break-ins occurred at a high rate while students were celebrating the holiday season away from Athens, officials said, and police reports from the first week of Spring Semester show that Apple MacBooks, TVs and jewelry were stolen.
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