PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 12 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Pittsburgh District issued the following news release: By Michel Sauret, Pittsburgh District A power outage that began in Ohio spread across seven states and into Canada as brush fires caused transmission lines to go out of service. Mass transit shut down, traffic chaos filled the streets, cell phone towers became overwhelmed, and approximately 5,000 critical facilities requested emergency generators after losing power. A   more

YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio, June 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Reserve Command issued the following news: By Tech. Sgt. Noah J. Tancer, 910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs History tells many tales of legendary perseverance and dogged determination, yet an old note once left on a tree branch shows an empathetic glimpse into an annoyance shared across time between the denizens of North Dakota and a "Corps of Discovery" immortalized in U.S. history. "The torment of those Missquetors and the S  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Charleston, W.Va.- A state-federal Mobile Disaster Recovery Center will open tomorrow, June 11, 2024, at 8 a.m. at the John Slack Park Parking Lot in Boone County to help West Virginia residents affected by the April 2-6 severe storms. Individuals in Boone, Cabell, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Marshall, Nicholas, Ohio, Putnam, Wayne and Wetzel counties can apply  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio issued the following news release: Sharon Romaine Ward, 52, formerly of West Chester, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to fraudulently billing more than $8.5 million to Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs home healthcare programs between 2015 and 2021. Ward admitted that, when she started Halo Home Healthcare in 2015, she concealed her ownership of the company because she had a p  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Terry James Cox, 40, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on November 30, 2023, law enforcement officers conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by Cox in  more