OSU programs look for solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems
SALEM, Ohio - Ohio State University is tackling some of society's biggest issues through a $100 million investment in 10 high-impact programs at the university.
Pulling together
BURTON, Ohio - Joe Knautz's friends used to hang out in his backyard a lot. The group liked to exchange stories, tell jokes and even offer each other advice once in awhile.
Free to a good home: Grant adds Pa. wind turbine sites
SALEM, Ohio - Small wind turbines will be coming to four western Pennsylvania communities, thanks to a grant that lets public properties receive the machinery without cost.
Trumbull County Fair
CORTLAND, Ohio - Visions of stacking a freezer full of fresh meat filled their heads. It may have not been so much the meat they were thinking about: It's likely buyers at the Trumbull County Fair were trying to imagine icy cold blasts from the freezer to stop their sweating during the sale July 15.
Amish dairyman banned from selling raw milk again
SALEM, Ohio - Dairyman Arlie Stutzman claims he sells raw milk because of his religious beliefs but that isn't a good enough reason for him to continue, a judge recently ruled.
Canada confirms mad cow disease
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease in a 50-month-old dairy cow from Alberta.
Ethanol facility coming to eastern Ohio
COSHOCTON, Ohio - Coshocton Ethanol LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altra Inc., a California-based developer of renewable fuel projects, has commenced construction on Ohio's first major ethanol production facility in the eastern Ohio/Pennsylvania region based in Coshocton, Ohio.
Hog inventories remain unchanged
WASHINGTON - Ohio hog producers had 1,580,000 hogs on hand June 1, unchanged from last year, but 4 percent above last quarter.
New plant blankets areas of Ohio
BELMONT, Ohio - Drive along any road southeastern Ohio this month and you can't miss it. The low-growing, three-leafed greenery with small, bright yellow blossoms seems to border most highways and punctuate the open fields with its presence.
Pa. farmers fight both drought and flooding in a few chaotic months
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - It seems like it hasn't quit raining since Bryan Swistock voiced worries in mid-April about an impending groundwater drought in Pennsylvania.