Prion diseases: clues found for jump to new species
Scientists have found the adaption is a prolonged and subtle process, and the early stages of it are very difficult to detect.
Our greatest risk is our own panic
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on risk and the fact that we are a nation that jumps to conclusions and is prone to panic. Not everyone, she says, needs to rush out and buy gas masks and take antibiotics without evidence of a threat.
Rural Ohio enduring conflicting trends
Today, 34 percent of Ohio's 11.4 million residents live in townships, outside the boundaries of a city or village. That's 3.86 million people, up from 2.7 million in 1960, when it was 12 percent of the state's population.
Russia lifts nine-day ban on U.S. meat imports
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service officials were successful in dispelling Russian fears of of anthrax transmission from meat products from Florida, and U.S. producers breath easier.
Taft’s ethanol plan political hype
A reader says the legislation Taft plans to support seems a token gesture rather than a plan.
Antique tool collection focus of sale
Planes and levels creating the most interest at the Hazen Auction service Oct. 13 sale of the Ralph Platt estate.
Three enter Natural Resources Hall of Fame
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has honored Ralph Cobey, Frances Kitchen and Roger Conant with its highest honor.
Area toy museum can unleash the kid in you
A Marx toy collector, Francis Turner, has rekindled the dreams and memories associated with the former West Virginia toy manufacturer by opening of an Official Marx Toy Museum in Moundsville.
Genealogical seminar offered in Mahoning County
The Mahoning County chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will hold a Nov. 3 beginning genealogy fall seminar.
GMO tests are available to farmers
OSU researchers have outlined a number of tests available to farmers that measure levels of herbicide and insect tolerance of such crops as corn or soybeans.
