Licking County

Early voting started on Oct. 8. Since then, about 60,000 people have voted in Franklin County and its immediate neighboring counties.

Jacob McDonald, 61, is charged with 15 felonies and several misdemeanor assault charges in Licking County. A fiery crash killed six people in 2023 traveling from Tuscarawas County to Columbus.

The air quality alert comes as much of the Ohio Valley is under a heat dome with temperatures hovering in the mid-90s.

Licking County Pollinator Pathway is offering free native Ohio saplings as a “reward” to county residents who kill invasive Bradford Pear trees.

The rest stop is decorated with the colors and themes of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, which became Ohio's first World Heritage Site in September.

The report states the crash happened because the semi at the rear of the line of vehicles was following too closely when the vehicles in front of it braked, causing a chain reaction crash involving five vehicles.

Intel submitted an application for CHIPS funding, and more than a dozen members of Congress from Ohio are urging the government to select Intel as part of the program.

Funerals for the victims killed in the crash will take place Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. The district will take a longer Thanksgiving break from Nov. 20 to Nov. 27.

The bus was carrying the students and chaperones to an Ohio School Boards Association conference in Columbus, Tuscarawas Valley Superintendent Derek Varansky said.

The crash involved a charter bus carrying more than 50 band students to a conference in the Columbus area. Three students and three adults - two parent chaperones and a Tusky Valley teacher - were pronounced dead at the scene.