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Carter Powers Gallia Academy to First Win
By: Bianca Long
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With his team’s best chance to pick up its first win, quarterback Kole Carter put on a monster performance. His four touchdowns lifted Gallia Academy (1-7, 1-0) to a long-awaited 31-14 win over the Warren Warriors (0-8, 0-2). Warren had no answers for Carter as the game progressed, who scored three times on the ground… Read More


Scores From Around the Area: Week Eight
By: Rahul Mukherjee
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MVL Maysville: 48 John Glenn: 6 Tri-Valley: 38 Sheridan: 14 Philo: 39 New Lexington: 20 Crooksville: 34 Morgan: 27 West Muskingum: 7 Buckeye Trail: 21 TVC-Ohio Nelsonville-York: 0 Alexander: 36 Athens: 50 Wellston: 42 Jackson: 47 Meigs: 6 River Valley: 30 Vinton County: 12 TVC-Hocking Eastern: 12 Trimble: 75 Miller: 53 Federal Hocking: 7 Belpre: 40 Parkersburg Catholic: 8 Wahama: 19 South Gallia: 54 Waterford: 30 Southern: 20 SEOAL Logan: 7 St. Francis DeSales: 44 Warren: 14 Gallia Academy: 31 Mid-State League Hamilton… Read More

OU to Host Renowned Choreographer
American choreographer and recent MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham will bring his company Abraham.In.Motion to Ohio University for this year’s statewide OhioDance Fall Festival and Conference, Oct. 23-25. Abraham will present a public lecture on expressions of social justice in dance, as well as to perform some of his own dance work, which is modern and… Read More

ADA25 Continues: Website Accessibility & Challenges of Student Veterans
By: Nichole Moorman October 19 starts the third week of the Americans with Disabilities Celebration Series, which will include a website accessibility workshop, a discussion on the challenges faced by student veterans, and a demonstration with therapy dogs. Monday, October 19 from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., a skills demonstration with therapy dogs will be… Read More

Report: Nearly 2,900 West Virginians OD’d in Past 5 Years
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Nearly 2,900 West Virginians have overdosed on prescription painkillers or heroin over the past five years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that the statistics are from the state Health Statistics Center, which also said overdose deaths last year were the highest in the state since 2011. Moreover, the state is on pace… Read More

Plan May Preserve Complex Of Old Buildings At Ohio University
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ATHENS, Ohio (AP) – Trustees at a southeastern Ohio university are considering a plan that could give new life to a group of buildings that once housed a state insane asylum and since has inspired tales of hauntings and unusual occurrences. Ohio University trustees are voting on a plan Friday that would preserve and renovate… Read More

Columbus SWAT Officer Fatally Shoots Serial Robber
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Authorities say a Columbus SWAT team officer fatally shot a man who robbed the same convenience store three days in a row in Ohio’s capital city. Police say the officer, who hasn’t been identified, shot 25-year-old Kaleb Alexander around 12:15 a.m. Thursday outside a United Dairy Farmers location in Columbus. Sgt…. Read More