Johanns will listen to farm bill concerns at Pa.’s Ag Progress Days
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns will host a farm bill forum Aug. 16 at Penn State's
July was hot and dry at Copeland weather station
MILLPORT, Ohio - Some like it hot, and this region was the place for those people to be during July, according to Edwin R.
Knox Co. 4-H’ers share winnings with charities
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio - The Knox County Fair junior livestock exhibitors are generous with their sale proceeds.
Columbiana County fair livestock sale totals $291,400
LISBON, Ohio - Gerald Thoma has been plotting for a year to buy granddaughter Samantha Cope's lamb at this year's Columbiana County Fair.
Ohio hosts Welsh pony show
KINSMAN, Ohio - The Ohio Welsh Pony Association has been chosen to host the American National Show for registered Welsh ponies and cobs and registered half Welsh.
Another miss: Tests negative for mad cow
SALEM, Ohio - False alarm. Tests on the cow most recently suspected to have mad cow disease have come back from the lab with negative results, according to the USDA.
Son promoting book of sign-painting father
CARROLLTON, Ohio - Roger Warrick, son of the late Harley E. Warrick, will be at the Algonquin Mill Fall Festival at the Mill Farm near Carrollton, Ohio, 9 a.
Barn fan electrocutes 11-year-old
SALEM, Ohio - A barn fan apparently electrocuted and killed 11-year-old J.R. Smith of Salem Aug. 7. Police reports say the boy's father, Roy, called for help from the family's home on West Middletown Road north of Salem Sunday evening shortly before 9 p.
State fair names scholarship recipients
COLUMBUS - The Ohio State Fair's 2005 Junior Fair Scholarship winners have been chosen. Applicants were judged on scholastic standing, citizenship, leadership, Ohio State Fair participation, county fair participation and financial need.
Eminent domain hot in legislature
SALEM, Ohio - How would you like it if the county commissioners came knocking at your door to say they were selling off your farm or home to build a new Wal-Mart? Or, if they said most of your neighborhood would be razed and a car dealership would replace the ranches and saltbox homes that had been there for years? The













