Jim Phillips

Hocking County Prosecutor Ryan Black answers questions from reporters after a court hearing last year. Black resigned after two former employees in his office sued him and the county for sexual discrimination.

LOGAN — A Missouri resident who is accused of having raped an 18-year-old Ohio woman while the two were camping in the Wayne National Forest in Hocking County has been indicted by a Hocking County grand jury. Joseph Paul Metts, 29, is facing one count each of rape and kidnapping, both first-degree felonies.

COLUMBUS — The engineering firm that’s being sued by the city of Logan over alleged defects in the design and construction of the city’s four-year-old water treatment plant has answered

NEW LEXINGTON — It’s time once again for Perry County Job and Family Services’ popular annual Back to School Bash. The central — though not the only — aim of

When a state agency last year ordered an operator of injection wells for fracking waste to stop injecting into its wells in the Coolville area, the reason cited was that

LOGAN ¬ The defense attorney for a Logan man who's scheduled to go on trial this month, in connection with an alleged exchange of gunfire with police, has asked for a delay of the trial to allow a specialized assessment of whether he was legally insane at the time of the incident.

NEW LEXINGTON — Perry County Job and Family Services (PCJFS) has recently begun work on developing an ambitious new strategic plan, meant to guide the agency through this year and

LOGAN — In the criminal case of a Cincinnati man who allegedly had two pounds of methamphetamine in his car when he was stopped in Hocking County, there has reportedly

COLUMBUS — When the City of Logan first sued two companies over alleged design and construction flaws in its four-year-old water treatment plant, it didn't provide a dollar figure for damages it claims to have suffered.

LOGAN — With his trial on murder and other felony charges set to begin today, a Fairfield County man has gotten permission from a judge to come to court wearing civilian clothes instead of a jail uniform, and with no visible restraints.