Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.
Policies are being discussed that will affect independent businesses all across the nation. Small businesses are not without their voices, and organizations such as Area Action Council are forming to make their positions heard on key issues.
City officials are gearing up for several projects around town.
It’s time to catch the wave of a good cause. The Kokosing River Surf Club Band will perform Sunday in what is the first in a series of events being planned by the Leadership Knox project to raise money for sound and lighting equipment at ThePlace@TheWoodward, said Andrea Hayes-Caudill of the Mount Vernon-Knox County Chamber of Commerce.
Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash that occurred Friday on Ohio 13 a quarter mile north of Beckley Road, at 1:52 p.m.
On Friday, Common Pleas Court Judge Otho Eyster sentenced two men for felonies, according to Knox County Prosecutor John Thatcher.
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