Athens County News

A Stewart woman is charged with DUI after being pulled over, allegedly with a blood alcohol content level nearly three times the legal limit.

State Sen. Lou Gentile is running for re-election while representing the residents of two counties who won't be voting for or against him this fall and getting to know people in seven other counties who will.

Detectives are interviewing a man who said he was shot in the face while fixing his car along an Athens County road Tuesday morning.

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According to Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly, 46-year-old Jason Fields, of New Haven, W. Va., was stopped on U.S. Route 33 near state Route 682 by an Athens County deputy.

An intoxicated Athens County man who was lying on a dark country road on May 12 was run over and killed by a sedan that left the scene.

Last year, more than 12 million barrels of drilling waste were dumped in local injection wells, and 60 percent of that waste fluid is trucked from wells in other states.

St. James Catholic Church will host a communitywide reception at 2 p.m. today in the parish hall to honor Father Paul Walker.

RaeJean and Danny Cantrell moved to southern Ohio, into the hilly swath of the state just inside Appalachia, looking for a place to regroup and restart their lives.

Officials and residents of a southeast Ohio county are concerned about bills the Appalachian area faces for three murder trials in the slaying of a woman found strangled in a septic tank last year.

Folks in the Cutler area were breathing a sigh of relief Thursday after learning their local post office is among several thousand rural postal facilities saved from the U.S. Postal Service chopping block.

The Athens County Sheriff's Office said it raised nearly $20,000 Wednesday by auctioning off vehicles seized during investigations.

While no action of support or objection to the increase was taken by the group, it was the general consensus that members should be represented at the two public meetings on the issue of increasing the sales tax by one half of one percent which would take Meigs County to a total sales tax, state and county, of seven percent.

Greenleaf Landscapes has long been sending work crews to Athens County and drawing customers from there to its retail shop in Marietta.

Athens County was struck with flash flooding across the county on Friday evening resulting in a fatality in Ames Township.

One person is dead after severe weekend flooding in southeast Ohio. Authorities in Athens County say a 74-year-old woman was killed when she and her husband were trapped in their car.

Friday night's heavy rains led to flash flooding in one Southeastern Ohio county.Those flash floods turned deadly for one woman who was swept away by water.

Gallipolis , Gallia County , Ohio Many roads are still closed due to flooding from overnight thunderstorms.

Doug Harlow Web Producer: Mamie Buoy Reported: May. 5, 2012 10:22 AM EDT Updated: May.

An Athens County woman died Saturday morning after being swept away by flood waters, the Athens County Emergency Management Agency says.