Waverly News

Students in Ross and Pike counties, as a whole, met fewer benchmarks on the Ohio Graduation Tests this year than in 2011, but not by much.

An annual 5K race and youth track meet that over the years has provided more than $28,000 in scholarships to Waverly students returns Monday to the Waverly High School track.

Hadsell Chemical Processing in the Pike County has been awarded a 45 percent, seven-year Job Creation Tax Credit from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority.

A U.S. District Court jury has convicted a couple of operating a "pill mill" in the Pike County village of Waverly.

Jury deliberations got under way Thursday in the case of alleged Ohio pill mill operators accused of illegally prescribing thousands of prescription painkillers.

Jury deliberations are under way in the case of alleged Ohio pill mill operators accused of illegally prescribing thousands of prescription painkillers.

State Sen. Bob Peterson presents a Senate resolution to Waverly High School freshman Holly Miller on Wednesday on the floor of the Statehouse honoring her recent victory in the 13- to 16-year-old category of the national Gospel's Got Talent competition.

The 51st annual Tour of Scioto River Valley is set to take place this weekend, May 12-13. Organizers are anticipating nearly 3,000 cyclists.

9:05 a.m. -- Michael D. Gierhart, 33, of 15902 Stump Run Road, Laurelville, was served with a warrant charging failure to appear on a menacing charge.

Pike County Agriculture Awareness Day: More than 500 third-graders from Pike and Ross counties were at the Pike County Fairgrounds on Friday for the Pike County Farm Bureau's 15th annual Agriculture Awareness Day.

He was born in Napoleon on June 14, 1925, to the late Lee Weaks and Lelah F. Myers.