The organization Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG, put on a rally in front of the Athens County Courthouse on Monday — the day before the United States Supreme Court begins hearing arguments in two landmark cases on marriage equality.
The news that another public state university is calling for a campus-wide tobacco ban prompted Ohio University’s tobacco task force to continue talks for an eventual proposal to President Roderick McDavis.
Ohio University Culinary Services, in conjunction with Hillel at OU, will serve kosher-style food for the first time at all dining halls across campus.
The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is fighting the use of a Breathalyzer that shows inaccurate results that has caused thousands of court cases and wrongly convicted people.
From Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg to former President Bill Clinton, more and more leaders agree that coding is the way to a more technologically advanced future, and schools across the country are hopping on board.
Members of the Athens City Council met for a special session of ordinances and committee meetings last night.
A Chillicothe woman filed a response Tuesday to Ohio University’s answer to her excessive-force complaint denying her claims.
Saturday’s High Fest had the good fortune of warm weather and a packed crowd, but students and law enforcement found the annual celebration to be relatively calm.
Microsoft is offering students in U.S. colleges access to the educational version of Office 365 at no charge.
Athens bar patrons will soon be afforded alternative transportation back to their houses that will save a lot of green — both in customer’s wallets and in the environment.
Hundreds of students pulled an all-nighter Friday night — not to study but to raise money for cancer patients.
“Brooms down, eyes closed,” bellowed the announcer. “The snitch is loose,” he called out.
Warmer temperatures and sunshine brought swarms of festgoers to High Street early for this weekend’s fest.
Athens County has seen three methamphetamine busts in houses during the past three weeks, but it will take about six years before the values of those houses are affected.
The amount of debt Ohio University is predicted to incur during the next five years could pay for in-state tuition for the 13,277 freshmen admitted to OU in 2013 as of the end of February, the world’s most expensive car, a private jet — and there would still be enough money left over to buy 7 million sheets of GoodFella’s pizza.
Ohio University filed a motion Tuesday denying a Chillicothe woman’s excessive force lawsuit against its police department.
One highway that dissects Ohio from Athens County to Lima has seen such a significant increase in drug seizures that it has been dubbed, for some, the “heroin highway.”
The Post's local staff members investigated what is holding property values in Athens County back as well as what is being done to improve them.
When it comes to Ohio’s property value-bereft Southeast District, Athens County is, in effect, a diamond in the rough.
The Athens Police Department was typing up police reports on a typewriter as recently as 1990 and didn’t have Internet access until the turn of the millennium.
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