Meigs County News

SHERIFF'S OFFICE INVESTIGATING FORMER COUNTY MAINTENANCE DIRECTOR: The Washington County Sheriff's Office and Major Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant today in an investigation of a former county maintenance director for allegedly receiving kickbacks from a Meigs County vendor.

POMEROY a ' An Athens man arrested Friday in Mississippi has been charged with the Sept.

COLUMBUS -- Brenda Roush of Pomeroy begged a U.S. District Court judge Thursday afternoon to sentence a former Zanesville resident to life in prison for his involvement in the killing of her son.

The jury in the Paula Rizer murder trial is still behind closed doors at this time, determining the fate of the Portland area woman accused of murder in the April 3 shooting death of her husband, Kenneth Rizer, Sr.

GALLIPOLIS a ' The capital murder trial of Walter Stewart, charged in the April shooting deaths of John Paul Holley and Carolyn Merry, has been postponed and will likely not begin before next week.

"Oh, God, what have I done ... what have I done," a tearful Paula Rizer recounted from the witness stand Monday about the moments following the fatal shooting of her late husband, Kenneth Rizer, Sr.

Opponents of state Issue 2 painted the constitutional debate yesterday as a battle of big guys and little guys: factory megafarms versus small family farms and consumers.

The Sierra Club believes that a coal-fired electric power plant under construction in Ohio could wind up hurting Danville Utilities' customers in the pocketbook.

A Meigs County man is being held on $500,000 bond after a series of weekend incidents in which he allegedly shot his daughter in the back of the head, shot and killed her dog and burned his home.

A 17-year-old remains in the hospital, and her father behind bars after a shooting in Meigs county over the weekend.

The Ohio State Fire Marshal is continuing its investigation of an overnight fire at the American Legion Post in Langsville in Meigs County, Ohio.

It was a time for Lawrence County to give itself a pat on the back as the areaa s movers and shakers were honored by their peers.

Former Harrisburg-area resident Nellie "Ruby" Taylor is leading the charge to secure a historical marker near the New Hope Baptist Church to commemorate its destruction at the hands of Morgan's Raiders during their incursion through Gallia County during the Civil War.

For those wishing to obtain vaccines for Type A influenza and/or the H1N1 virus, most health care providers are saying get them when and where you can.

A few miles upstream from Point Pleasant I crossed the Ohio to enter Ohio at Pomeroy.

POMEROY, Ohio a ' A critical access hospital is again being considered an element of a larger health care campus under development outside Pomeroy.

Charles Williams admitted to the robbery and murder of Doris Jackson, a longtime family friend, to a three-judge panel Wednesday.

A charter-bus driver remained in critical condition last night after losing a leg in a crash that occurred while he was returning new students to Hocking College in Nelsonville.

Unemployment rates are at historic highs across most of Ohio. Sunday's Numbers, a weekly feature from The Plain Dealer 85 of 88: In 85 of Ohio's 88 counties, the August 2009 unemployment rate announced last week was at its highest level for the month in at least 20 years.

Joblessness in the Dayton area dropped for the first time since May. The unemployment rate in the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area was 11.5 percent in August, down from 12.2 percent in July.