CHEERS to Belmont County emergency management officials for doing the legwork to ensure the county is deemed “Storm Ready” by the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. JEERS to news that a Martins Ferry home was damaged and a driver injured when they crashed into the porch of the ...

Politicians in Columbus may not agree on much these days, but this week they were united in their desire to help victimized former Boy Scouts get the justice they deserve. Ohio state Senators unanimously passed legislation that voids the state’s civil statute of limitations in bankruptcy ...

On Nov. 27, 1943, Bridgeport native Charles George Reynolds, then just 24 years of age, was a crew member on a B-25 Mitchell when it failed to return from a bombing run at Wewak, New Guinea. Reynolds and the rest of the crew were classified as missing in action, and for 80 years his remains ...

Though it is mind-boggling anyone would still have to ask, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests filed a letter last month to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, asking the state to hold accountable those in the Catholic church who have been accused of being predators. The letter is ...

Angkor, in Cambodia; The Great Wall of China; Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the Pyramid Fields in Egypt; Chichen-Itza in Mexico; Stonehenge in Great Britain ... and now, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in southern Ohio. All are United Nations Educational, ...

CHEERS to Bill Neptune of New Concord, Ohio, on his fourth claiming of the title King Pumpkin grower. Neptune’s gourd weighed in at 1,950 pounds on Wednesday evening during the unofficial start of the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival. JEERS to more cases of animal hoarding being found in the ...