LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) held a public hearing earlier this week at the Big Walnut High School Auditorium to hear public concerns about the Trent-Vassell 138 kV Transmission Line Project. The Trent-Vassell Transmission Line would connect the Vassell Substation east of Sunbury, now under construction, to American Electric Power’s existing Trent-Delaware 138kV Line.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When deadly twisters chewed through the South and Midwest in 2011, thousands of people in the killers’ paths had nowhere to hide. Now many of those families are taking an unusual extra step to be ready next time: adding tornado shelters to their homes.
Buckeye Valley North Elementary School may still be on the chopping block as district officials seek ways to close a projected $1.3 million budget gap ahead of the 2012–13 school year, but it is likely that elementary students will continue to have physical education, art, music and library services.
Late last week the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released December 2011 employment/unemployment figures for the greater Columbus area, with the unemployment rate — not adjusted for seasonal variations — dropping to 6.4 percent. This rate was down from November’s 6.6 percent, and was far below the unemployment rate of 7.7 percent in December 2010. And the reaction at the Department of Job and Family Services? According to their spokesman, Benjamin Johnson, “It shows definite improvement … (i)t shows a strengthening economy and an improving job market.”
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to create a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There’s his grand research plan to figure out what makes the human brain tick. And he’s warned about electromagnetic pulse attacks leaving America without electricity.
PORT CLINTON — The debate over a nuclear plant where small cracks were discovered in a concrete shell is revealing another split between two Democrats who are veteran members of Congress and opponents in the March 6 primary.
Concord Township residents opposed to a planned 138,000-volt power line that could cut across the properties of several homeowners received some support Thursday from the Delaware County Commissioners.