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Ohio University Southern to host College Goal Sunday

2012-02-09T00:00:03-05:00

IRONTON -- Ohio University Southern will host College Goal Sunday at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12.

PART OF A FOOTBALL TRADITION

2012-02-09T00:00:02-05:00

COAL GROVE, Ohio -- Like many a football fan, Greg Bender, a Dawson-Bryant High School senior, had watched a few Army-Navy football games. Next year, he could be playing in it.

Rio Grande to offer music scholarship auditions

2012-02-09T00:00:01-05:00

RIO GRANDE, Ohio -- The University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College is offering a full tuition, four-year scholarship to an incoming first-year student who will be studying music in the 2012-2013 school year, and is inviting any interested music students to audition for the award.

Take your taste buds on an ADVENTURE

2012-02-09T00:00:01-05:00

Teetering on the very ledge of my comfort zone, I dream of far-away places I want to visit and impossible adventures I want to conquer -- all of which get filed away quietly on a list that exists nowhere in particular but indiscreetly tucked away in my mind for the day that I'll finally check them off one by one in completion.

Magic numbers

2012-02-09T00:00:01-05:00

PROCTORVILLE -- Scoring 1,000 points and racking up 500 rebounds in a career are individual honors. But Fairland's Evan Salyers believes he wouldn't have achieved either without his teammates and coaches.

Student advances to state spelling bee

2012-02-09T00:00:01-05:00

COLUMBUS -- Felicity Jenkins, an eighth-grader at Symmes Valley Middle School, will represent Lawrence County and surrounding areas at the state spelling bee in March.

Arrest warrant out for sexual offender in Scioto County

2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- The Scioto County Sheriff's Department has secured a arrest warrant for a Portsmouth man for failing to register as a sexual offender, according to a news release from Sheriff Marty V. Donini.

South Point man admits to raping 7-year-old

2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00

IRONTON -- A South Point man admitted to raping a 7-year-old girl in Lawrence County and was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison.

Plan your summer vacation out west

2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00

The Super Bowl is over. Winter is winding down -- as if we ever really experienced much "winter" this year. Spring is a few weeks away. Time to begin thinking about that summer vacation.

LADY DRAGONS TAKE SPOTLIGHT

2012-02-09T00:00:00-05:00

PROCTORVILLE -- It's hard to imagine that an undefeated team could go largely unnoticed, but that's been the case for the Fairland Lady Dragons. That is, until now.