MOUNT VERNON -- On an unusually cool and overcast summer evening in downtown Mount Vernon, three bike races -- comprising the Mount Vernon Classic sponsored by Ariel and powered by GOBA -- heated up the crowd and the riders as they cruised through a course packed with spectators.

COLUMBUS -- On Friday, Gov. Ted Strickland signed into law new revisions of Ohio's boater safety laws.

MOUNT VERNON -- Charlene Hill stopped sorting the sizable stack of letters and catalogs on her kitchen table to open one particularly eye-catching envelope. "Look at this,"she said. "I’ve been preapproved for a $50,000 line of credit."

MOUNT VERNON -- Actors normally "tread the boards"on-stage as they perform. But Tuesday at the Memorial Theater, the actors were barely touching the boards at all as they careened through the air.