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WASHINGTON - Ohio would be among states that benefit the most from the administration's plan to encourage high-speed rail networks across the country, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio Rep. John Boehner got a nice pat on the back last year from mortgage giant Freddie Mac: a $40,000 donation -- in his honor -- to a group of schools in Washington that he's supported for years.

A Sugarcreek Twp. man pleaded not guilty Tuesday, June 9, to five counts of public indecency and three counts of menacing, all misdemeanors, after police say he harassed several people over the span of a week while wearing a women's swimsuit.

MARION: Gerald David Gullett, of 302 N. State St., Marion, died on Monday in Marion General Hospital.

The Washington C.H. High School Choral and Drama Department will present the 2009 "Variety Show" Friday, May 15th and Saturday, May 16th at 8 p.m. at the Washington Middle School Auditorium.

Driving through downtown Washington C.H. will get a little easier in the near future thanks to the installation of new traffic lights and plans to change the way traffic flows.

A Paint Valley High School student is the grand prize winner of Congressman Zack Space's 18th district Congressional Art Competition.

WASHINGTON - Ohio may have voted blue in the last presidential election, but don't think for one second the state has gone totally liberal.

PLYMOUTH: I. Gene Kraft, age 73, resident of Opdyke Rd., Plymouth died Thursday, April 30, 2009 at MedCentral / Mansfield Hospital following a brief illness.

Hundreds filled courthouse square in downtown Warren this weekend, as local labor groups hosted an "America Fights Back" rally.

LOUDONVILLE - Kenneth E. Lindenbolt, 90, of Loudonville, died Sunday, April 12, 2009, at Colonial Manor Nursing Home.

Jennifer Lynn Blue and Brett Andrew Payne were united in marriage on August 23, 2008 at St.

The rise in childhood obesity is a concern for Dominick Kaple, a first-year physical education teacher at Lake Elementary School.

A very brief meeting for the Washington C.H. School Board Monday night. The Board voted to accept state funds totaling $337 thousand dollars.

The man accused of trying to rob a KFC employee back in January of this year has been sentenced to three years in the Correctional Reception Center .

Nearly 200 acres of land in Hamilton County would be ripe for redevelopment, were it not for a few expensive problems: old buildings and possible contamination.

WASHINGTON - Ohio's county Farm Bureau presidents took to Capitol Hill recently to express their concerns to those elected to represent their interests in the nation's capitol.

Tara Marie Woodruff and David Allan Weithman were married December 13, 2008 at St.

Findlay police report that while many city and county roadways remain closed, some have reopened after water receded.

So, what to do about First Energy's Bay Shore Power Plant, the fish-killingest generating station in Ohio? The numbers and kinds of fish sucked into the Bay Shore water intake, made public in the last two ...