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MAP: Resdistricting Map Goes Before Ohio Senate Today
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The Ohio Senate is poised to take up a Republican-drawn U.S. House map in committee today. The map, which critics say was drawn to protect Republicans' majority in Ohio's congressional… Read More
West Virginia Employment Outlook Not Good
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Moody's Analytics says job growth in West Virginia over the next year won't be enough to reduce the state's unemployment rate. Moody's latest forecast expects about 1,000 jobs a month… Read More
Gas Prices Down In Ohio
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The cost of gasoline is down 15 cents a gallon from last week at Ohio pumps. Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express… Read More
Ohio River Ferry Won’t Shutdown
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The financially struggling Sistersville Ferry has averted a shutdown, thanks to a last-minute infusion of money from the state. Sistersville City Council voted last week to immediately stop the ferry… Read More
Energy Summit To Talk Shale
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What natural gas trapped in shale formations beneath Ohio could mean for the state's economy is one of the topics of an energy summit coming up in Columbus. Gov. John… Read More
Contract Approved
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Union workers at a dozen Kroger Co. stores in West Virginia and eastern Ohio have approved a new three-year contract. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23 says in an… Read More
Ohio Unemployment Rate Rises Again
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State officials say Ohio's unemployment rate rose for the third straight month in August, to a level matching the national jobless rate. The Department of Job and Family Services said… Read More
Three SE Ohio Mail Processing Centers On Possible Closure List
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The struggling U.S. Postal Service says it's considering whether to close more than 250 mail processing centers across the country, including three in southeast Ohio. There are 10 centers in… Read More
Parkersburg Post Office On Postal Service Review List
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Four mail processing facilities in West Virginia are on the Postal Service's review list for possible closure. Facilities in Bluefield, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Petersburg are among 252 nationwide that will… Read More
WVU At Parkersburg Trying To Attract SE Ohio Students
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Some students at West Virginia University at Parkersburg who live in seven Ohio counties would pay lower tuition under a proposed policy. The policy would apply to students living in… Read More
Redistricting Bill Advances
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While groups called for more time to review the maps, a state House committee has advanced a bill that would redraw Ohio's congressional lines. The proposal was passed along party… Read More
Inman Pleads Not Guilty To New Murder Charge
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The mother-in-law of a southeast Ohio woman found strangled in a septic tank has pleaded not guilty to murder. Sandra Inman, 46, is also charged with kidnapping, tampering with evidence… Read More
Kleins Plead Not Guilty to Charges
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An eastern Ohio couple have pleaded not guilty to charges in the drowning of the woman's 3-year-old son and his missing 2-year-old brother. Thirty-eight-year-old Richard Klein Jr. and 25-year-old Kasey Klein of Zanesville… Read More
Economic Development Tariffs Hearing
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Ohio utility regulators are preparing to hear testimony on a plan that would offer utility-bill breaks to businesses that create jobs. The idea of these "economic development tariffs" was pitched… Read More
C8 Science Panel To Hold Public Meetings
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Scientists studying the possible health effects of a chemical used at a DuPont plant will hold public meetings later this month in West Virginia and Ohio. The C8 Science Panel… Read More
Redistricting Proposal To Be Voted On Today
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An Ohio House committee is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to approve a Republican-backed plan for remapping the state's U.S. House districts. Democrats and voter advocacy groups criticized the… Read More
Obama Talks Jobs In Columbus
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President Barack Obama is challenging Congress to pass his jobs bill immediately, asking lawmakers, "What on earth are we waiting for?" Speaking at a school in House Speaker John Boehner's… Read More
Lucasville Prison Riot Inmate Allowed To Question Prosecutors
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A federal judge is allowing an Ohio inmate sentenced to die for killings during the 1993 Lucasville prison riots to question prosecutors about the possible location of case files. Jason… Read More
Father And Sons Sentenced In Ashland, Kentucky
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A federal judge has sentenced a father and his two sons for setting up a scheme to distribute synthetic drugs packaged as bath salts in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia…. Read More
Charges Dropped In Pickaway County Stop Sign Case
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A judge has dismissed charges against an Ohio teenager blamed for a fatal traffic crash caused by a stop sign concealed with petroleum jelly and plastic wrap. The judge ruled… Read More
Obama Coming To Ohio Today
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President Barack Obama is heading to the home state of his chief GOP antagonist on Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner to promote his jobs plan. The president's trip to… Read More
Redistricting Could Impact Lancaster-area U.S. Representative
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A U.S. House member says a proposed new Congressional map for Ohio combines his district with that of a fellow Republican, setting up a possible faceoff. A spokesman for U.S…. Read More
Remembering Ohio’s Fallen Firefighters
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The governor will help honor Ohio firefighters killed in the line of duty one day after the nation remembered first responders who died in the 9/11 terror attacks a decade… Read More
Lima Company Remembers 9-11
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Veterans of the Marines' Lima Company that lost nine members in a 2005 roadside bombing in Iraq are marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in a… Read More
Newark Boy Dies After Go-Cart Crash
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A six-year-old boy has died after a go-cart crash during a practice session at an Ohio track. The Pickaway County sheriff's office says Michael Wise of Newark was driving a… Read More