The Athens County Public Libraries are now offering an additional way to read digitally. According to a news release, "Zinio" is a new service that allows cardholders at the Athens County Public Libraries to download free digital versions of popular magazines.

Athens City Council is considering an ordinance that would authorize the purchase of equipment enabling city police to screen seized technical equipment such as cell phones or computers in-house as opposed to sending them out for screening as has been done in the past.

An Athens County citizen who served on the jury in the trial of Thomas E. Shifflet on child-sex charges told The Athens NEWS Wednesday that the difficulty the panel had in reaching a verdict – it took some 19 hours of deliberations and resulted in a hung jury on three counts – was partly the result of two "holdout" jurors who were reluctant to convict Shifflet on any of the five counts against him.

Athens County Engineer Jeff Maiden said Tuesday he will pursue the next steps in exploring the option of a feeder road to connect Johnson Road to River Road underneath a bridge near the intersection of those streets with U.S. Rt. 33 near The Plains.

After nine days of listening to arguments and testimony, followed by some 19 hours of deliberation over three separate days, a deeply divided jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday afternoon finally returned a verdict in the case of a 76-year-old Glouster man charged with sexually molesting five girls in 2010 and 2011.

For the second time, a judge in Athens County Common Pleas Court has sent home the jury who's trying to decide the case of a Glouster man charged with molesting five young girls.

On March 4, one of the partners in the Hocking Peaks Adventure Park near Logan sued his partner, claiming the man had misappropriated more than $500,000 of the company's money.

A jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court will resume deliberations this morning (Monday) in a child molestation case, after being sent home for the weekend on Friday.

Athens city officials are working on an agreement that would finish the upgrading of roads in the University Estates development, thus allowing the roads to be accepted by the city, with the accompanying city road maintenance.

A Nelsonville Police officer who has been sued in the past for using excessive force is one of two officers from that agency named as defendants in a new federal lawsuit on those grounds.