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![Athens City Hall is seen in Athens, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. [Joseph Scheller | WOUB]](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/062221_CityHall_002-scaled-e1632322166288-900x422.jpg)
The city of Athens is considering a hiring freeze to help shore up its budget
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The city of Athens is considering a hiring freeze because its cash reserves for the year have already dropped below a level that is considered financially… Read More
![Ohio University's class gateway at College Green, photographed on May 2, 2019](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/class-gateway-900x422.jpg)
Ohio University puts a pause on awarding scholarships that may use race as a factor
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Ohio University has paused awarding scholarships for which race may be a criteria in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year. The pause applies… Read More
![Photo of town square in Nelsonville Ohio. The town's fountain in on the left hand side of the image with buildings on the right.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Nelsonville_Ohio-e1544726003232-900x422.jpg)
Council disputes continue to plague Nelsonville’s attempts to hire an attorney and settle a lawsuit
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The Nelsonville City Council attempted at a special meeting Saturday to appoint a new city attorney and settle a lawsuit brought against the city by a… Read More
![Plastic single-use shopping bags at the checkout area in a Walmart store.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/plastic-bags-in-store-e1704222225431-900x422.jpg)
Athens officials argue the city’s plastic bag ban is legal in response to a lawsuit against the ordinance
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — In response to a lawsuit challenging its new plastic bag ban, the city of Athens argues it did not exceed its authority and suggests it is… Read More
![Flashing lights of the police car into the checkpoint in the city](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/police-cruiser-lights-e1705521572966-900x422.jpg)
A Glouster couple has been found dead in their home after an apparent homicide-suicide
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Athens County law enforcement is investigation the deaths of a married couple in Glouster in what appears to be a homicide-suicide. Sheriff’s deputies were called to… Read More
![Meredith Erlewine, right, and Joe Crowley, both instructors with the Athens Co. Cougarbats Mountain Bike Team, ride through the beginning portions of the Baileys Trail System, in Chauncey, Ohio, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/080821_BaileysTrail_013-scaled-e1705014304624-900x422.jpg)
An Athens County budget decision complicates future funding for the Baileys Trail System
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The organization that oversees the Baileys Trail System in Athens County is losing half of its annual membership funding this year. And that puts the other… Read More
![The General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2,600-megawatt supercritical coal-fired power station in Cheshire, owned by Lightstone Generation LLC.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/General-James-Gavin-power-plant-e1704817725487-900x422.jpg)
A Gallia County coal plant sues the EPA, alleging the agency improperly adopted a new environmental rule
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The owner of a coal-fired power plant in Gallia County argues in a lawsuit that the federal government improperly adopted new environmental rules that could result… Read More
![Plastic single-use shopping bags at the checkout area in a Walmart store.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/plastic-bags-in-store-e1704222225431-900x422.jpg)
Ohio’s attorney general is suing the city of Athens to stop its new plastic bag ban
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The state is suing the city of Athens to stop its ban on single-use plastic bags, which took effect Monday. A lawsuit filed last week by… Read More
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Athens City Council tables a proposal to regulate tobacco retailers
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — After much discussion, the Athens City Council has put off until next year a decision about creating a licensing program for tobacco retailers. Among other things,… Read More
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Athens schools need more help in the classroom, but job candidates are proving hard to find
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The Athens school district is trying to hire more professionals to support students with special needs, but it isn’t getting many applicants. The additional hires are… Read More
![The sun sets over the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio on May 6, 2019. Earlier this week, a number of Pike County residents filed a lawsuit alleging more than 2,000 people are adversely affected by the release of radioactive materials from the plant.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/01-JK_LawsuitHeader-DJI_0254-900x422.jpg)
A man claims in a federal lawsuit that contamination from a Pike County uranium plant caused his cancer
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A Pike County man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming radioactive contamination from a former uranium enrichment plant caused his leukemia. According to the lawsuit, Joshua… Read More
![A sign in large writing reads Hope Drive Apartments.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Hope-Drive-Sign-e1658085336346-900x422.jpg)
The Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority that was a victim of embezzlement is now being sued over its former director’s debt
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Late last year the Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority, which helps low-income people with housing, discovered its executive director had embezzled more than $1.5 million. Now it’s… Read More
![U.S. Air Force, 1Lt. Mathew Correa, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot assigned to the Ohio National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing, takes off for a routine training mission, from the 180FW in Swanton, Ohio. A similar jet created a sonic boom over Athens County Tuesday morning that rattled some homes.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/396535816_733213678850865_416358143332038968_n-e1701208367152-900x422.jpg)
A sonic boom and cold weather combine to rattle some homes and eardrums in southeast Ohio
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — If you heard a sonic boom Tuesday morning and maybe felt your house rattle a bit, that was physics in action. Military jet fighters from the Air… Read More
![The Smiling Skull Saloon on West Union Street in Athens.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smiling-Skull-Saloon-e1698866531839-900x422.jpg)
An Athens County judge puts a hold on the state’s decision to strip the Smiling Skull Saloon of its liquor license
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The Smiling Skull Saloon in Athens that had its liquor license revoked last month may be able to keep it after all. The state Liquor Control… Read More
![The Smiling Skull Saloon on West Union Street in Athens.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Smiling-Skull-Saloon-e1698866531839-900x422.jpg)
The Smiling Skull Saloon in Athens appeals the revocation of its liquor license, but the state claims it’s too late
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — The owners of the Smiling Skull Saloon in Athens that had their liquor license revoked last month by state regulators have filed an appeal, but the… Read More
![The outside of 269 E. State St. in Athens, a two-story home.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/269-E-State-Street-in-Athens-scaled-e1694716704561-900x422.jpg)
Data show Athens County home values are up 20 percent, and that means higher taxes
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — If they haven’t heard already, homeowners in Athens County will soon learn that the value of their home has gone up significantly over the past three… Read More
![A row of centrifuges inside a massive facility in Piketon are now enriching uranium.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Piketon-plant-centrifuges-e1697141717329-900x422.jpg)
Piketon is poised to again become a nuclear hub with the launch of a uranium enrichment plant
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PIKETON, (Ohio) – With the flip of three switches, 16 giant cylinders lined neatly in a row came to life and began enriching uranium that will fuel the next generation… Read More
![Gavel leaning against a row of law books](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AdobeStock_110666651-e1518880023556-900x422.jpeg)
A lawsuit alleges Ironton police attacked a man for trying to record them
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A man who says Ironton police officers attacked him because he was going to record them as they searched his truck has filed a civil rights… Read More
![The outside of 269 E. State St. in Athens, a two-story home.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/269-E-State-Street-in-Athens-scaled-e1694716704561-900x422.jpg)
A couple appeals the denial of a short-term rental permit in Athens for a second time
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A lawyer representing a Dublin couple who want to operate a short-term rental in Athens did not mince words at a hearing last month. “It doesn’t… Read More
![An architectural rendering of the design of the nuclear power plant Oklo Inc. is planning to build in southeast Ohio.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Oklo-power-plant-drawing-e1684775483233-900x422.jpg)
A West Coast startup wants to build two nuclear power plants in southeast Ohio
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A California company plans to build two small-scale nuclear power plants near Piketon that will operate under a new model compared with traditional plants. If the… Read More
![Gavel leaning against a row of law books](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AdobeStock_110666651-e1518880023556-900x422.jpeg)
Former student files a federal discrimination lawsuit against Hocking College
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) –– A former student who brought national attention to Hocking College as a member of its football team has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the college. Caden… Read More
![Governor Mike DeWine and Fran DeWine visit Heritage Hall College of Medicine on Monday, April 12, 2021, in Athens, OH. DeWine toured the facility and watched as three OU students were given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and then spoke to the media about the vaccination efforts and supply in Ohio. "Our way to get back to normal is the vaccine, it's the only way to get back."](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/210412_dewinevisit_CD_109_1-scaled-e1618337423852-900x422.jpg)
State appeals court revives lawsuit challenging university’s COVID vaccine mandate
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WOUB Digital · State appeals court revives lawsuit challenging university’s COVID vaccine mandate ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A state appeals court has kept alive a lawsuit challenging Miami University’s… Read More
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New grant program offers big money for transformational change in Appalachian Ohio
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Half a billion dollars has a way of getting people’s attention. Representatives from local governments, nonprofit groups and other community organizations packed a large room for… Read More
![Gavel leaning against a row of law books](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AdobeStock_110666651-e1518880023556-900x422.jpeg)
A judge sets the timeline in the Bellar sexual abuse lawsuit as it moves toward trial
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — A young women who has sued her parents and Athens County over the years of sexual abuse she allegedly suffered as a child may get her… Read More
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Jay Edwards wins fourth and final term for 94th House District
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Republican incumbent Jay Edwards cruised to reelection Tuesday night as the state representative for the 94th House District. Edwards defeated his Democratic opponent, Tanya Conrath, with… Read More
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