Air Quality Alert issued July 15 at 9:35PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued an Air Quality Advisory for the entire state of Ohio, from 7 AM Thursday to midnight EDT Thursday night. Smoke from Canadian wildfires will adversely impact air quality. The Agency expects the Air Quality Index to be in the 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' range. For additional actions and information, please visit the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's web site at epa.ohio.gov.
Users of Grand Lake now have a Web site to check on algae toxin levels in the lake.
The page was created by the Ohio EPA and is available at www.epa.state.oh.us/pic/glsm_algae.html. There are several links to the sampling data, fact sheets, news releases and other information, Ohio EPA spokeswoman Dina Pierce said. [More]
Images of Hollywood and actors commonly show fame and fortune.
But that's not the case for most of the 120,000 performers in U.S. acting unions. Only around 4,000 of those entertainers work regularly, according to Celina writer Scott Voisin.
Voisin's book to be released next month, "Character Kings," reveals the truth about working actors. [More]
What started out to be a tryout turned out to be the opportunity that Todd Boeckman has been looking for.
The St. Henry native and former Ohio State quarterback signed a contract with the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars on Wednesday after having a workout session with the team earlier yesterday morning. [More]
Cleanup efforts continued Wednesday in an effort to keep nearly 800 gallons of liquid fertilizer from entering Beaver Creek following an earlier traffic accident.
A 19-year-old Fort Recovery man remains in critical condition at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton after falling from the bed of a pickup truck early Sunday morning.
ST. MARYS - In 2008 troopers with the local Ohio Highway Patrol Post stopped 2,000 vehicles and investigated 680 crashes in Auglaize and Mercer counties, according to the Wapakoneta Post commander.
The Mercer County Commissioners plan to apply for $600,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for Phase I of the proposed Marion Township sanitary sewer improvement project.
Grand Lake is a canary in a coal mine - the first of many water problems on the horizon for Ohio, says Bill Ringo, Lake Improvement Association (LIA) president and political chair of the Friends for the Preservation of Ohio State Parks.
COLDWATER - Usually in a doubleheader, especially when pitching is scarce, one game is usually a pitcher's duel while the other has the makings of an offensive onslaught.
After a thrilling 30-lap main event just four weeks ago, the O'Reilly All-Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Cars returns to Eldora Speedway for the second and final time in 2009 on Saturday night.
A quartet of pitchers helped Grand Lake win its fourth straight game as the Mariners blanked the Cincinnati Steam 5-0 on Wednesday night at Jim Hoess Field.
