Author: George Hiotis

American Electric Power announced Friday that it is waiting for the “all clear” from Columbia Gas to turn power back on for customers who lost service Thursday. AEP says it continues to put the safety of customers and crews first. “We stand ready to get power flowing again as soon as it is safe to […]

The Columbia Gas outage in the south end of the city of Zanesville has forced the closing of three area schools. Administrators says classes are cancelled for Zane Grey Elementary and Intermediate and the Zanesville Community High School. Those buildings do not have power due the current natural gas outage. All other schools in the […]

The Cambridge Post of the Highway Patrol is investigating the second double fatal accident in one day. Troopers say just after 6:00 pm Thursday 43-year-old Benjamin Larsen of Ripley, West Virginia was driving west on State Route 78 in Noble County, went left of center and struck another vehicle. It was driven by 55-year-old Paula […]

Zanesville Mayor Jeff Tilton says the city has a major gas problem in the south end of the city. Tilton says Columbia Gas has informed the city that gas lines to that area (Pine Street and other close by areas) are dealing with a failure in service not over pressurized gas lines as was first […]

The Mid-East Career and Technology Center went on soft lockdown Thursday morning after a bus driver thought he saw something. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says the driver thought he saw someone with a gun. School security did a search of the grounds and found nothing. Sheriff Lutz says the bus driver is really not sure what […]

The Cambridge Post of the Highway Patrol says a wrong-way driver caused a double fatal accident. It happened just after 3:30 am Thursday on I-77 near the Guernsey-Noble County line. Troopers say 33-year-old Megan Dunaway of Newark was driving southbound in the northbound lanes and struck another vehicle head-on. That vehicle was driven by 54-year-old […]

The Cambridge Post of the Highway Patrol is investigating a double fatal accident. It happened Thursday around 3:30 am on I-77 North just south of the Guernsey/Noble County Line. The patrol says it was caused by a wrong-way driver heading south in the Northbound lanes. Troopers say there were two separate accidents. The Patrol says […]

The Highway Patrol is investigating a semi rollover accident on I-70 Wednesday. It happened in the eastbound lanes about 10 miles west of Zanesville in Muskingum County. Troopers were called to the scene just after 8:30 am on a report of a driver trapped inside the cab. The interstate is down to one lane and […]