R. Kelly Hamilton, the attorney representing suspended Mount Vernon Middle School teacher John Freshwater, has filed an application for a Writ of Mandamus with the Supreme Court of Ohio.

No one wants to hear those grim words of being diagnosed with breast cancer, but there are those who hear them.

While at least three local fires from earlier this summer remain under investigation by the Ohio Division of State Fire Marshal and local fire and law enforcement agencies, Tim Spradlin, the chief of the SFM’s Fire and Explosion Investigation Bureau, said SFM fire investigations have increased not just in Knox County, but throughout Ohio.