It was a close call for two children swimming in the Walhonding River in Coshocton County. According to the Coshocton County Sheriff's office, parents of the two called emergency crews around 5:30 p.m. Friday after they couldn't find the children in the water. The Sheriff's Department said the parents feared the children had drowned. The parents later found the two on a bank by the river. The two were transported to Coshocton Hospital for precautionary measures. Their names have not been...
A woman was transferred to Grant Hospital by Med-flight after her vehicle crashed into a utility pole Friday night. According to the State Highway Patrol, the one-car crash happened on U-S 22 near the Holiday Inn around 9 p.m. The victim's name has not been released. She was transferred by Medflight after first being taken to Good Samaritan.
The United Way is counting on a new chairperson to help them acheieve their fundraising goals for this year. Vince Durant took the helm as the new chairman of the United Way in mid-April. Durant's challenge is ahead of him now, since the agency has increased their fundraising goal by four percent. This year's goal is $1.24 million.
For the past five years the state's Bicentennial Commission has been preparing for Bicentennial celebrations in 2003. Those celebrations are set to include a bell project for every county. They also include a wagon train traveling throughout the state on Route 40. The state's actual Bicentennial celebration will kick off March 1st of 2003.
A Canton teenager is now facing two additional attempted murder charges after a shooting incident at a Cambridge campground. 19-year-old Michael Morris is charged with attempted murder in the alleged shooting of his sister's friends, Rebecca Lewers and Crystal Mccala. Now, a Guernsey county grand jury has indicted Morris on two additional attempted murder charges, one allegedly involving Morris's sister and his brother. The shootings took place on June 3rd at the Bucket Hills campground....
A U.S. house committee has passed a bill that would bolster the finances for health care benefits for thousands of retired coal miners and their dependents. The bill would increase transfers of interest from the abandoned mine land reclamation fund to help keep solvent a fund that pays health care benefits to retired miners. A fee on coal operators finances the abandoned mine fund. Its chief purpose is to pay for the restoration of abandoned coal mine lands. Some interest on it already goes...
Some funding is heading to Guernsey county. It's a 110-thousand dollar grant through the United States department of argriculture. According to Congressman Bob Ney the grant is designed to create local jobs and will benefit 10 Guernsey county small businesses. The director of the community improvement corporation says the money will be divided into loans of up to 25-thousand dollars each.
It's just like the olympics, but there are a few differences that make it special. Six different starting points throughout the state will help kick-off the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics, which begins tomorrow. Law Enforcement will carry the "Flame of Hope," throughout various cities as they collect money for the Special Olympics. As part of a statewide effort, the goal is to raise 250-thousand dollars.
An important part of United States history has been ruled unconstitutional. A Federal Appeals Court in California ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because of the words "Under God." Today, mall goers at the Colony Square Mall had a few words to say about the decision, some were good, while some were bad. Rose Ann Lee said, "I think it's really stupid. I think they should keep it the way it is because, it's always been that way and it should stay that way." Nellie Haley...
Buckeye Egg Farm is disputing reports that an auction today (thursday) in Licking county is the beginning of its dismantling process. The company's chief financial officer, Matt Doyle, says 390 acres of excess farmland will be auctioned at the Hartford fairgrounds. He says the company has been leasing the land to farmers and had a buyer for it, but the deal fell through. Doyle says that on July 27th, Buckeye Egg owner Anton Pohlmann's estate, including land, a house and a horse barn, will go...
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