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Big Moments of 2011 Ohio Football
The 2012 season kicks off for Ohio football on Saturday September 1 in State College. Yet, after winning the first bowl game in school history and capturing the MAC East Title, the 2011 season had many different moments that stood out to the Bobcats. Mark Pierce caught up with some Ohio football players to see… Read More
More Than Just a Trip Around the World
Ohio volleyball sophomores Kelly Lamberti and Chelsea Bilger traveld to China for the Bring It Promotions/USA Volleyball Global Challenge. The girls played with college players around the country against three of China's professional teams. The two outside hitters not only got a chance to play against some tough competition, while seeing a foreign country.
More Than Just a Trip Around the Worlc
Ohio volleyball sophomores Kelly Lamberti and Chelsea Bilger traveld to China for the Bring It Promotions/USA Volleyball Global Challenge. The girls played with college players around the country against three of China's professional teams. The two outside hitters not only got a chance to play against some tough competition, while seeing a foreign country.
2011 Ohio Volleyball Rewind
Ohio volleyball kicked off the 2012 season over the weekend, but there were still plenty of hightlight moments from 2011. Senior Leah Petrovich goes over the season that was and what Ohio is looking to do for the start of 2012.
New Faces of Ohio Volleyball
With each changing year, new faces come into sport programs. For Ohio, 2012 meant not only a few new additions to the roster, but a new addition to the coaching staff as well.
Motorist Finds Burned, Naked Woman
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A sheriff says a severely burned woman was naked and had a rope around her neck when a passing motorist spotted her on a road in a rural, heavily wooded area of eastern Ohio, roughly 60 miles from her home. The traveler found the woman Sunday northeast of Zanesville and called 911. He told a… Read More
Attempted Abduction In Hocking County
By: Jasmin Pettaway
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A 16-year-old girl living in Hocking County was almost abducted this morning at around 6:20 while waiting for her bus at Laurel Run Road. Sheriff Lanny North says the attempted abductor was an older man with white hair and a white beard who was driving a red Geo Metro. The man insisted that the girl… Read More
Afternoon Audio Update For August 27
The Scioto County Drug Action Team has been awarded a $125,000 grant. Navy Week has arrived in Cleveland. West Virginia regulators have scaled back an increase in Wheeling's water rates. Details in your afternoon audio update.
Southeast Ohio Astronomical Society
On this edition of Conversations from Studio B, Maryann Hartwick, George Eberts and Tom O'Grady of the Southeast Ohio Astronomical Society discuss a number of topics, including a recent 'star party' attended by Eberts and O'Grady in Durham, Ontario, where former OU professor Brian McNamara was a featured symposium speaker on black holes. The Studio… Read More
Stolen Semi Located In Scioto County
By: Jasmin Pettaway
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A man is in jail in connection with stealing a semi truck in Kentucky and bringing it to Scioto County. Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini says his deputies arrested 27-year-old Corey Murphy, of Stout, after the semi truck parked outside a business in Maysville, Kentucky was stolen. The victim of the theft returned to… Read More
Jackson pummels Wellston in rivalry game
By: Kyle Bratke, Steve Uhlmann
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No matter what they try, the Wellston Rockets just can't figure out the Jackson Ironmen. For the 21st time in 22 years, the Ironmen took down the Rockets in the annual Battle for Jackson County, winning at C.H. Jones Field, 34-13 on Saturday. This year, it would be Ironmen quarterback Derek Rafferty who terrorized the… Read More
Police Investigating Burned, Naked Woman Found On Road
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UPDATE 1:08 P.M. Sheriff's deputies are looking for people they think may have information about a burned, naked woman found on a rural road in eastern Ohio over the weekend. The Muskingum County Sheriff's Office said the 29-year-old Canton woman was found at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday by a passing motorist on a road north… Read More
Wayne Nat’l Report Calls For No Add’l Fracking Analysis
By: Fred Kight
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There is no need for further environmental analysis of possible fracking. That's the announcement Monday from the Wayne National Forest. Forest Supervisor Anne Carey signed a report that concludes that "at this time, there is no need to correct or amend the 2006 (Forest Plan) in order to address the surface impacts of horizontal… Read More
New Donation Supports Gallipolis Area Businesses
A recent donation provided by a Gallipolis supermarket will help to support small businesses in the area. The Eastman's Foodland plans to donate $10,000 per year for the next five years to the Digital River Project, a local non-profit organization that aims to aid unique new businesses. Each business in the project must be… Read More
Morning Audio Update For August 27
A Pike County crash claims the life of a Lancaster man Saturday night. Ohioans are headed to the Republican National Convention for what a local party chair calls an "exciting time." And law enforcement is trying to figure out what happened to a burned, naked woman found lying on a rural road in eastern Ohio over… Read More
Rising Cost Of Hay Forces Many To Give Up Animals
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Horse-rescue operations in Ohio say they have been inundated with requests from people who can no longer care for their animals and need to give them up. Part of the problem is the rising cost of hay, which as not fared well during the unusually dry, hot summer. Some owners can't afford to feed their… Read More
500+ Ohioans Expected To Attend RNC
By: Associated Press, Fred Kight
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The Republican National Convention begins today and local party chair Pete Couladis says it's an exciting time. Exciting in the sense that with the convention comes a growing interest in the presidential campaign. "The people that will watch the convention and listen to the speakers will get excited, will now start thinking about the… Read More
Space Legend Neil Armstong Dead At 82
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UPDATE 10:10 A.M. A private service is planned in Cincinnati on Friday for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. He died Saturday in Cincinnati at age 82. No other information was released immediately, other than that the service would be private. A spokesman for his family said a public, national memorial… Read More
Pike Co. Crash Claims Lancaster Man
By: Fred Kight
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The Ohio State Highway Patrol says "drugs and alcohol are believed to have contributed" to a car crash in Pike County over the weekend that killed a man. Christopher Murphy, 26, of Lancaster died late Saturday night at the scene. He was a passenger in a car driven by 34-year-old Michelle Caudill of Laurelville. She… Read More