Harrison County News

Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently announced Denver-based MarkWest plans to construct three new gas-related processing plants in Monroe and Harrison counties.

HARRISON COUNTY , Ohio -- A Harrison County grand jury indicted three people accused of robbing a home and setting it on fire.

James R. Booher Jr., 55, state Route 518, Lisbon, was eastbound on state Route 518 in Madison Township at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday and hit a deer.

Gov. John Kasich called for reforms in education and work force training and acknowledged the future of the shale drilling industry during a nearly 90-minute State of the State address Tuesday afternoon that was interrupted by protesters in the audience.

Washington, D.C., has the very solemn Vietnam Wall for those who served during that time in history.

Harrison County can expect a job boon within the next year after a Colorado-based energy company announced plans to expand with processing sites for the Marcellus and Utica shale.

Gov. John Kasich says Ohio is getting more aggressive in economic development, as the state's new private job-creation agency gears up for spurring business investment.

A reward has been established to find the person or persons behind a daring afternoon bank heist in Cadiz earlier this month.

The community children's program Kids with Spirit will be held today from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Follansbee Presbyterian Church.

Producers Service Corp. on South Graham Street -- which specializes in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- created a special 30- to 40-member shale crew, most of whom already were working for Producers, to handle the new business volume.