Morgan County News

McCONNELSVILLE - Stimulus funds are allowing Morgan County Public Transit to move into the old Finley Fire Equipment Co.

McCONNELSVILLE -- Residents will step back in time this weekend for the annual Old Tyme Christmas in the Village.

McCONNELSVILLE -- Billy J. Battle was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of felonious assault, obstructing official business and resisting arrest in a Morgan County Common Pleas court.

Bell ringers are needed for the annual Salvation Army Kettles. Bell ringers will be posted at Kroger, IGA, and Jo Ad's in McConnelsville.

Community Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church, 183 E. Liberty Ave., McConnelsville.

While she believes God can forgive the young man who murdered her daughter, Peggy Matthews doesn't feel that mercy herself right now.

An Ohio man who recently turned 18 has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal baseball bat beating of a woman who had taken him into her family.

An 18-year-old who admitted murdering and raping the woman who was like a mother to him never explained to authorities why he did it.

MCCONNELSVILLE: Charles H. Taylor, 84 of Marietta, formerly of Columbus, passed away Friday November 13, 2009 at his home in Marietta.

McCONNELSVILLE -- The Kate Love Simpson Library will take visitors on a journey to the center of the galaxy when it unveils mural-sized images of the Milky Way's core as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

MCCONNELSVILLE: Ruth A. Moore, 92, of 1052 North Main St. Malta passed away Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10:58 p.m. at the Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital in Zanesville.

McCONNELSVILLE - Morgan Local Schools took the first step toward protecting its students from H1N1 Thursday by giving about 170 students the vaccines.

MALTA - A crowd at the McConnelsville Veterans Day parade Wednesday showed its appreciation for the sacrifices that veterans have made.

MALTA -- While the U.S. Congress debates health care reform in Washington, D.C., plans already are in place to greatly reform health care in Morgan County with the construction of a new Muskingum Valley Health Center building on Main Street in Malta.

More than five months after a mother of three was found dead in her Morgan County home, a McConnelsville teen has pleaded guilty to five charges in connection with her death.

The body of Abi S. Matthews, a 35-year-old college student and mother of three, was discovered on June 2 in her Malta apartment.

A Morgan County teen is facing life in prison after pleading guilty today to the murder of a single mother earlier this year.

Perry County Court Judge Dean Wilson Oct. 22 Darrell Limings, 48, 11870 Ohio 204, Thornville, operating a vehicle under the influence, $650 and costs, 180 days jail, 160 days suspended, one-year license suspension.

Rufus Putnam Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, having members in Morgan and Muskingum counties, hosted its annual Harvest Banquet at theStockport Mill Country Inn on Oct.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has a reached a settlement with a Morgan County Company.