Meigs County News

Investigators have ruled the fire that killed a Waterford-area man on Thanksgiving Day was accidental.

The old saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is once again applicable when it comes to last week's collapse of American Municipal Power's coal-fired power plant proposed for southern Meigs County.

Plans to build a huge coal-fired power plant along the Ohio River in Meigs County have gone up in smoke.

Stunning several local residents, Wednesday morning American Municipal Power announced it was abandoning plans to build a nearly $3 billion coal-fired power plant in Southern Meigs County with plans to possibly redesign the project as a gas-fired facility.

American Municipal Power, the largest supplier of power to Cleveland, will announce at noon today that it has cancelled its coal-fired 1,000-megawatt power plant on the Ohio River in Meigs County.

REEDSVILLE -- A new officer with the Zanesville Police Department will be on the streets.

"Decades of Christmas with OAGC, 1930 to 2010" is the theme of the annual Christmas flower show to be staged next weekend in the Pomeroy Library social rooms by the Meigs County Garden Club Association.

A former county employee cleared of wrongdoing in one investigation is the target of another, the Washington County Sheriff's Office announced Monday.

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.