The combination of several factors is leading to a shortage of surgeons in the United States, and to physicians in general. A soaring population and fixed number of medical students has led to a prediction of a shortage of 200,000 physicians by 2025, causing delayed access to health care for Americans.

Ohio National Guardsmen continue to be deployed to Iraq, although the units deployed at this time are not from the Knox County area.

A Kenyon College student was seriously injured when he walked into the path of a car on Ohio 229 Sunday night.