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Local
Tablertown People of Color Museum is set to build its new facility on a site in Kilvert along SR 329, two miles from its current location, where it will double in size and open in 2026. Creator David Butcher and volunteers are now cleaning up trash from years of dumping, and an old building must be demolished before construction begins in October. (WOUB)
A Doritos commercial created by a team of Ohio University alumni was among the top 25 finalists for the snack brand’s Crash the Super Bowl competition. (Ohio University)
Clients’ personal details — including protected health information — may have been acquired in a May 2024 data breach at the Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities. (ACBDD)
A team of researchers led by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University has discovered what it believes is a fossil of the oldest known modern bird. (Ohio University)
Gov. Mike DeWine’s return to office work order for state employees does not apply to Ohio University. (WOUB)
Regional
Both the prosecution and the defense have asked the court to move the trial of the Hocking County Sheriff’s former chief deputy to another county, citing pretrial news coverage and social media posts. Caleb Moritz faces trial on six felony charges. (The Logan Daily News)
Two Delaware, Ohio, residents were treated for minor injuries following the crash of their small airplane near the Perry County Airport. (Perry County Tribune)
A Cleveland man was arrested after he stabbed three fellow passengers on a Barons Bus near Cambridge last week. The victims were treated at area hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries. (WHIO)
Designs for the Pomeroy Downtown Riverfront Revitalization Project were unveiled Feb. 5. The $8.4 million project, to be built by American Structurepoint, is funded the state’s Appalachian Community Grant Program, via the American Rescue Plan Act. (River Cities Tribune & Register)
A national broadcast media company with stations in Ohio laid off nearly two dozen fact-checkers last week. TEGNA owns 68 TV stations across the country, including four in Ohio: WBNS in Columbus, WKYC in Cleveland and WTOL and WUPW, both in Toledo. It also owns the WBNS AM and FM radio stations. (The Desk)
Joe Burrow was named the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year for his performance following treatment for a torn wrist ligament in November 2023. (WCPO)
State
Gov. DeWine appointed former The Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel as lieutenant governor yesterday, Feb. 10. Tressel replaces Jon Husted, who was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate term of now-Vice President J.D. Vance. (Statehouse News Bureau)
Ohio lost the most commercial poultry to bird flu in the U.S. over the last 30 days, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. At least 50 commercial production facilities have cases and 10 million birds in the state have been killed as a result since December 2024, impacting egg prices and availability. (Cleveland.com)
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced last week that he will run for state auditor in 2026. Term limits prevent him from seeking a third term as secretary of state. In the last GOP primary in 2024, LaRose unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Senate. (WOUB)
State representatives Dontavius Jarrells and Ismail Mohamed, both Democrats from Columbus, have introduced a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2030. (Ohio Capital Journal)
About a dozen men — many carrying rifles and dressed in black — displayed swastika flags on an overpassin Cincinnati last week. Localpolicesay the demonstration was hateful but not illegal; video shows officers ushering the Nazis away from a crowd of community members and into the back of a moving truck before signaling them to drive away. No arrests were made. (WCPO)
