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Alexander Looks to Continue Improving in 2015
By: Patrick Klinger
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On the back of each Alexander Spartans team t-shirt reads one simple phrase, “GLORY: Never Retreat, Never Surrender”. During his brief tenure in Albany as head coach, Alex Penrod took a one-win Spartan team in 2013 and dramatically improved them into a .500 team in contention for a TVC-Ohio title in 2014. For this upcoming… Read More
Annual Assessment Test Results Released
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – State education officials are releasing the results of this year’s annual assessment test. The preliminary statewide results are due to be released Tuesday. The tests administered in the spring are used to assess students’ proficiency in math and reading and language arts in grades three through 11, and in science for… Read More
Former Delaware County Sheriff Candidate Faces Child Porn Charges
By: Associated Press
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DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a former central Ohio deputy who twice ran for sheriff has been charged with having child pornography on his computer. Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Mark Wolfe of Sunbury, north of Columbus, was arrested Monday. He was a Delaware County deputy for three years in the 1990s and was interim… Read More
Two More Drug Ring Players Sentenced
By: Susan Tebben
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Two Glouster residents arrested in connection with a heroin and cocaine ring were sentenced in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Monday. Patricia Nichole Vore, 29, and John E. Rutter, 55, were both sentenced after changing their pleas to guilty in indictments against them. Vore pleaded guilty to seven counts of trafficking in heroin, and one… Read More
Ohio Judges Can’t Choose Marriage Type They Perform
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio judicial board has ruled that judges who perform weddings can’t refuse same-sex couples based on personal, moral or religious beliefs. The board also says judges who stop performing all marriages to avoid marrying same-sex couples may be interpreted as biased and could be disqualified from any case where sexual… Read More
Judge Rules Against Ex-Coal CEO in Several Document Motions
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BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) – A judge has ruled against ex-Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in motions over documents in his criminal case. In Beckley federal court Monday, Judge Irene Berger issued four orders that don’t favor Blankenship. He is charged with conspiring to violate safety standards at Upper Big Branch, a former Massey mine where… Read More
Ohio Board Proposal Limits When Police Deadly Force is OK
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Update 11:45 p.m. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A proposed statewide standard in Ohio would permit police to use deadly force only when officers are defending themselves or other people from serious injury or death. A police task force convened by Gov. John Kasich unveiled the draft standards Tuesday ahead of a September deadline. The state’s… Read More
Sales Tax Holiday Popular with Ohio Back-To-School Shoppers
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s first sales tax holiday appears to have been a hit with back-to-school shoppers. The numbers won’t be available and analyzed for economic impacts until later, but the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants says anecdotal reports are that consumers were out in force to take advantage. Some retailers offered sales specials… Read More
What Came First: The Rubber Chicken or the Stuffed Chicken?
By: Sarah Guinn | Athens Messenger
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Rubber chickens, papier-mâché chickens, stuffed chickens wearing sunglasses. All of those could be found in the poultry barn this year at the Athens County Fair except for real, live chickens. Instead, framed pictures of the exhibitor and their animal took the place of a live one in the cage, and posters were hung above the… Read More