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Nineteenth century quilts from Ohio discussed at Watt Center in Barnesville

BARNESVILLE — Terry Tickhill Terrell is coming to The Watt Center for a second time in 2025. She will be speaking at 6 p.m. Thursday. Doors at the center, located at 515 Watt Ave. in Barnesville, will open at 5 p.m. A donation of $5 will support the work of The Watt Center. “All are ...

Steubenville High School is set to crown homecoming queen

Photo Provided Steubenville High School is set to crown its 2025 homecoming queen this Friday with a series of upcoming events on the calendar. A kickoff pep rally will be held in the high school’s Crimson Center at 1:45 p.m. Friday, followed by the traditional parade from Belleview Park ...

A conviction may be beside the point for the Justice Department as it pursues the case against Comey

WASHINGTON (AP) — For a Justice Department facing intense White House pressure to investigate perceived presidential enemies, indicting former FBI Director James Comey was the easy part. Building a case that can sway a jury beyond a reasonable doubt is a significantly tougher task, but like in other cases of investigations of President Donald Trump’s critics, it increasingly seems to be almost beside the point. As the administration aims to comply with Trump’s ordered prosecutions, officials have signaled that making life uncomfortable for targets of the retribution — ...

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday. The bureau last spring had reassigned the agents but has since fired them, said the people, who insisted on anonymity to discuss personnel matters with The Associated Press. The number of FBI employees terminated was not immediately clear, but two people said it was roughly 20. The photographs at issue showed a group of ...

Dozens arrested, hurt in clashes near Philippine presidential palace

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police arrested 49 people suspected of hurling rocks, bottles and fire bombs at officers and blocking heavily guarded roads and bridges leading to the presidential palace Sunday while a peaceful anti-corruption rally took place in the capital, officials and witnesses said. The melee outside the country’s seat of power unfolded while more than 33,000 other protesters rallied in a historic park and a democracy monument in Manila. They expressed outrage over a corruption scandal involving lawmakers, officials and construction company owners who ...