Athens County Commissioner Charlie Adkins confirmed Tuesday that he's looking into how a 911 dispatcher handled a complaint Friday evening by the 17-year-old girlfriend of Joel Kelly, the 24-year-old son of county Sheriff Pat Kelly.

In the midst of a state criminal investigation of alleged illegal records destruction by Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly, other elected officials in the county are working to update their records-retention policies, and make sure they conform to recommended state guidelines.

A group of Athens-based anti-fracking activists presented multiple proposals to a group of southeast Ohio mayors on Thursday, including the creation of a watershed summit and a drive to amend the state constitution to strengthen home rule.

Ohio University Athletics issued its annual report last week trumpeting several records set in the 2012-13 season.

Attorneys for Ohio University have argued that a federal judge should throw out a former student's request for an injunction against OU because he has now graduated, making his request moot.

Later this month, Alex Stuckey will receive an IRE award for her story "Drug Under the Rug," an investigation into the Athens County Ohio law enforcement agencies' failure to report property that was seized and forfeited after drug busts. Her four-month investigation of the missing reports occurred while she was a student reporter for The Post at Ohio University.

In accordance with a plea bargain he took earlier this year, a 22-year-old Glouster man on Wednesday was sentenced to four years in prison for the beating death of a Buchtel man in May 2012, and the robbing of an Athens man more than a year earlier.