Taking it to the Streets

FREDERICKTOWN — A 14-year-old girl suffered a head injury when she slipped and fell on the ice on Knox Lake on Sunday evening.

Howard — After her Aunt Marlene was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring of 2009, Olivia Bates knew she wanted to do something to help.

MOUNT VERNON — 2009 was a very good and full year for the city of Mount Vernon.

MOUNT VERNON — The Mid-Ohio Transit Authority is changing its hours of operation beginning Monday. The new service hours will be 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday.

MOUNT VERNON — Starting today, Ohioans will have the opportunity to easily compare hospitals on over 100 different measures with the click of a mouse.

FREDERICKTOWN — An accident with a wood splitter caused injury to a 65-year-old Fredericktown man Wednesday.

FREDERICKTOWN — Barbara Golden, Fredericktown, was charged with failure to control after a one-car crash Tuesday at 4:15 p.m.

MOUNT VERNON — To say the Mount Vernon High School girls basketball team got off to a hot start on Wednesday night is putting it mildly.

CENTERBURG — It was a matter of execution at both ends of the floor on Wednesday night as the Bishop Hartley High School girls basketball team defeated the host Centerburg Trojans, 57-43, to win the championship of the Shelly Whited Holiday Classic.

MOUNT VERNON — Returning for a second day of cross-examination, John Freshwater and school board attorney David Millstone frequently reached an impasse, prompting contract termination hearing referee R. Lee Shepherd to intervene at times.

MOUNT VERNON — A six-month phase-in period for a new law requiring drivers to use their headlights any time they have their windshield wipers on, ends today.

CENTERBURG — It took a few minutes for the Centerburg girls basketball team to start the fire, but once they did, it burned long and hot.

GAMBIER — Competing in its first meet in a week, the Mount Vernon High School swim team hosted Gahanna-Lincoln at the Kenyon Athletic Center on Tuesday morning. While Gahanna swept the Yellow Jackets, it wasn’t about winning or losing. It was simply about getting back into the flow after the Christmas break.

MOUNT VERNON — "Detectives continue to follow up on all leads, tips and information that they have received," Knox County Sheriff David Barber said late Tuesday regarding the investigation into the murder of Jean Davis.

MOUNT VERNON — "Welcome to Chad Bo's, what'd ya have? What'd ya have?"

MOUNT VERNON — The Hernando Ruiz family — parents and children ages 4, 6 and 10 — is in need of everything after their home on Smith Street, off Harcourt Road, was destroyed by fire early Monday morning.

MOUNT VERNON — Ricardo Warren was the first witness during Tuesday's session of the contract termination hearing of suspended Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater.