Zanesville police have requested an autopsy after a man was killed in a motorcycle accident Thursday evening. It happened just before 7 pm on Old Newark road. Zanesville Police say that 32-year-old Melvin Patterson died instantly after his motorcycle went off the right side of the road and hit a utility pole. Patterson was the only one involved in the accident.
It's back to the phones and the cakes at Colony Square Mall as the Carr Center Cake Auction enters day two on Friday. The fundraiser collected 62-thousand-205 dollars during the first day on Thursday. That's about two-thousand dollars more than the first day last year. There are over 400 cakes that will be auctioned off during the two day event. You can listen to the event on WHIZ A-M 1240 radio or you can hear it live on the internet at WHIZ AMFMTV.COM. After the auction there will be the...
If you haven't been to your local library in a while, you may want to stop in an check out some new policies that are going into effect this weekend. Sunday starts National Library Week, and to kick-off the celebration, the John McIntyre Library is making changes. Under the new policy, fiction videos and D-V-D's can be borrowed for 7-days, magazines, new adult fiction, pamphlets, CD Roms and "books on tape" for 14 days. All other items can be borrowed for 28 days. Tom says this will also...
Muskingum Tech and Ohio University-Zanesville's campus library is hosting a two day conference for library professionals throughout the appalachian region. Held annually, the Two-Year College Library/Learning Resource Center Conference is an opportunity for professionals to meet and examine issues related to college library employees from across the state. The focus of the 2002 conference is on the various roles which are assumed by two year campus libraries.
A well known Roseville artist has died. Leslie Cope passed ways Thursday morning after an illness. Cope, a native of England, was a resident of Roseville where his work is exhibited in an art gallery on Cope street. A lot of Cope's work depicts early settlement in and around Muskingum county. His works are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York, The Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, The Library Of Congress and Capital University. Cope is also cited for...
The murder trial of a Noble county teenager continues Thursday. 16-year-old Matthew Lallathin is accused of shooting 38-year-old Todd Morrison of Byesville. Its possible that the jury could get the case Thursday afternoon. Police says Morrison stopped to help Lallathin after a traffic accident last fall, and that's when he was shot. If convicted the teenager could face life in prison.
A Zanesville man is in the hospital after flipping his car several times in an early Thursday morning accident. Zanesville police say it happened around 12:30 on Adams Lane. Investigators say the driver of the car, 26-year-old Brian Bennett drove off the side of the road and that's when the car flipped. Bennett was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment. Zanesville police say they are investigating alcohol as a factor in the crash.
Ohio's Super Lotto Plus jackpot is growing to super proportions. On Saturday it will be worth 70-million dollars. That's because there was no winner in Wednesday night's 56-million dollar game. The odds of winning remain, as always, one in nearly 14 million. The record jackpot is the result of 13 consecutive drawings without a winner. Ohio lottery spokesman MIke Bycko says that before the drawing, tickets for the game were being sold at a rate of about 23-thousand per minute.
The Colony Square Mall was a buzz today with the delivery of a variety of cakes. It’s that time again…time for the annual Alfred S. Carr Center Cake Auction. It kicked off today with a bang, with many bringing in cakes to set up for the big event. Today was cake check in day it began at 7 am and will wrap up at 7 pm tonight. The event will actually take place this tomorrow at 8:15 am and run through Friday at the mall. Olympic medallist Lea Ann Parsley will be at the auction to light the first...
Its Pet of the Week time, and this week we’ve got two little pooches to showcase. Ten-week-old black lab puppies are up for adoption at the Animal Shelter Society and these two little guys are hoping for a new home soon. If you are interested call the Animal Shelter Society for more details.
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