Mount Vernon News

Like it or not, students in Ohio's public schools must pass standardized tests in reading, math, writing, science and social studies in order to receive a high school diploma.

Moundbuilders Guidance Center has found a new way to offer psychiatric care in the middle of a state sorely lacking in psychiatrists - by turning on the television.

Close to 30 firefighters from five departments responded to an overnight house fire at 10129 Pleasant Valley Road.

MANSFIELD -- Jerry G. Ware, 49, died Friday, July 11, 2008, at MedCentral/Mansfield Hospital.

The hard work youths have been putting into preparing their fair projects for the Knox County Fair will soon pay off.

On Monday morning, the Knox County Board of Commissioners had a meeting with Emily Marth, safety, loss-control and HR coordinator.

Firefighters were forced to break down the door of an apartment in the three-story Terrace apartment building Monday evening around 6:30, when smoke from the apartment escaped into the basement and neighboring ...

General Motors touted Saturn as "a different kind of car" when it introduced the brand in 1990.

Soroptimist International of Mount Vernon and Knox County, and Interchurch Social Services, sponsored the annual Christmas in July food drive on Saturday to restock the ISS food pantry.

MOUNT VERNON -- He walked into the old barn, tipped back his head, closed his eyes and inhaled deeply.

"At a contentious public meeting in Mount Vernon, Ohio, the district school board scheduled a hearing on whether to fire teacher John Freshwater.

The Mount Vernon-Knox County Chamber of Commerce raised $1,600 on Wednesday at the chamber's annual Junior Fair Luncheon, held at The Dan Emmett Conference Center.

Indictments were returned in 13 cases on Monday by a Knox County grand jury for various felony crimes.

On July 1, the Ohio Department of Education announced that Ohio is one of six states being given the opportunity to change the way school districts address the needs of students in accordance with federal No ...

MOUNT VERNON -- The most famous American of the late 1800s was not Mark Twain or Ulysses S. Grant or even P.T. Barnum, but Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show.

When LuAnn Duncan, OSU-Knox County Extension Educator, checks pressure canner gauges on Friday at her office at 1025 Harcourt Road, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., she knows what she's doing.

Kathi Lore was willing to settle for a new location, new colors and a new ambiance.

A Warsaw man is still being evaluated this afternoon by the emergency room of the Knox County Community Hospital in Mount Vernon after a Tuesday morning car accident.

Monica Hunnicut tells the story of an autistic high school boy who was being teased by classmates.

The Knox County Horse Park and all the performers will put on a re-enactment of a Buffalo Bill Wild West Show to celebrate the Knox County bicentennial.