ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Officials monitoring the southeast Ohio hillside where a massive boulder crushed a car say a tree there has moved several inches but they don't believe there's an immediate threat of another rockslide.Monitoring pins were installed ... »
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Trustees at Ohio University have passed a resolution giving the school's president the authority to enter into mineral rights leases on university-owned land, pending final approval from the board.The Athens Messenger reports the mo... »
McCONNELSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A southeastern Ohio village mayor suspected of repeatedly raping a girl has pleaded not guilty and is being held on bond of $1 million.Stockport Mayor Michael Shane Shuster is charged with 10 counts each of rape, sexual batt... »
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fraternity at Ohio State University is being suspended after a hazing allegation because of what fraternity officials describe as a pattern of unacceptable behavior spanning several years.A letter from the general secretary of B... »
Ohio geologists' latest effort to map the best areas for Utica shale oil and gas production shows potential for an oil reservoir in central Ohio but now excludes areas near Cleveland and in southeast Ohio.The head of the Ohio Geological Survey tells Th... »
Seventeen Ohio universities and community colleges are ready to switch from a quarter system to a semester-based calendar in a move officials say will help students transfer more easily between schools.The Dayton Daily News reports schools switching fr... »
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Department of Transportation officials say the state has 5,300 hillside areas at risk of sending rocks onto nearby highways and spends $16 million a year preventing or cleaning up slides.A department spokesman tells The Colum... »
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — A southeast Ohio sheriff says a man facing eviction apparently killed his wife and then shot himself after calling authorities to report the murder-suicide.Athens County Sheriff Patrick Kelly says investigators found the pair dead a... »
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Crews are expected to use jackhammers to remove a large boulder that fell from a southeast Ohio hillside, crushing a car and damaging a home and three other vehicles.The Athens Messenger reports the boulder that fell Wednesday is es... »
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — A boulder that broke free form a hillside in southeast Ohio has crushed two vehicles, damaged a house, knocked down utility poles and damaged an underground water line.The Athens Messenger reports no one was injured when the boulder... »
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Huntington police have released the names of those involved in a wrong-way collision on Interstate 64.Officer Scott Hudson says 29-year-old Andy Withrow of Albany, Ohio, was driving a pickup truck the wrong way early Friday whe... »
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Promises of prosperity have made government and school officials in Ohio consider land leases with oil and gas companies seeking to drill with a technique that blasts shale with chemical-laced water.The Columbus Dispatch reports t... »
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders.A state Supreme Court justice on Tuesday upheld the town of... »
NEW YORK (AP) — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.The word is "fracking" — as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from... »
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — A southern Ohio sheriff aiming to reduce a backlog of warrants says alleged offenders who don't come forward when asked will have their names, photos and charges posted on the agency's website and on social media sites.Athens County... »
