Piketon News

USEC is working with the U.S. Department of Energy and members of Congress to secure funding for an RD&D program at the Piketon facility.

A semi tractor-trailer rig was damaged in a collision with a pick-up truck on Wednesday in West Portsmouth.

As that young, first-time father sped along the nighttime roads intent on getting his wife, Angie, to the delivery room, the name emblazoned on a truck sharing the road made all the sense in the world to both of them for their new baby.

Pike County Sheriff Richard N. Henderson said Deputy Hank Steiger responded around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to an anonymous report of possible drug manufacturing activity in a wooded area behind a church on Chenoweth Fork Road in Piketon.

A $150 million "backdoor earmark" for the American Centrifuge project in Piketon survived a vote in the House on Friday, keeping the project alive while the company seeks $2 billion in federal loan guarantees.

No. 4 West received perhaps the biggest pictching performance of the year from Abby Welch as the Lady Senators shut out No.

NOTES: The Wheelersburg-Sardinia Eastern softball contest is tied 7-7 in the top of the 11th before darkness suspended play.

Delaying Ohio's proposed new grading system for schools should not derail state efforts to win an exemption from some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The United States Enrichment Corp. , with a location in Paducah, Ky., and Piketon, Ohio, is the beneficiary of support from three of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C.: Sen.

After 20 years, Becky Nesbitt has said goodbye to the Gallia County Extension Office, where she now serves as director, to take a position as extension specialist for philanthropy at Ohio State University's South Centers in Piketon.

Nearly 70 years after it was built, crews are busy tearing down the massive K-25 uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge.

Strawberry growers can learn about a new production method taught by an Ohio State University Extension specialist who can help them grow larger, sweeter strawberries that can be harvested in early May and well into fall.

The U.S. Department of Energy will host its next public information meeting about the Piketon DOE site from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Waverly High School, 1 Tiger Drive.

Marc Hill tags a fire alarm box, an outdoor device, at the Department of Energy Portsmouth Site in Piketon.

Norma L. Edwards, 70, Piketon, Ohio, a native of Gallia County, died at 11:35 p.m., Sunday, May 6, 2012, in the Southern Ohio Medical Center, Portsmouth, Ohio.

The school board announced a special meeting for 4:30 p.m. Monday to approve the updated five-year-old forecast, approve a resolution for participation in programs with the Ohio School Facilities Commission and approve personnel items.

Clell Elliott knows what he's talking about when he tells anyone wanting a college degree to never give up.

Clell Elliott will graduate with 398 others during the University of Rio Grande's 2012 Commencement on May 5, 2012.