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An uranium processing plant worker, wrapped in a blanket and plastic sheet, is carried on a stretcher to an ambulance for transfer to a hospital specializing in radiation sickness in Mito, northeast of Tokyo. Three workers were hospitalized yesterday, and local schools were ordered to keep their students indoors after a radiation leak at the uranium processing facility in Northeast Japan, officials said.
OU tries to balance tuition
by Lacy Papai
THE POST
COLUMBUS - More than half of Ohio's $10.1 billion share of the national tobacco settlement should go toward building schools and paying for education technology, a task force recommended yesterday.
The Governor's Tobacco Task Force approved its recommendations 14-1, sending them on to the Legislature.
OU employees to gain fairness
by Lacy Papai and Kristin Webber
THE POST
After receiving the same compensation package for the past 10 years, classified employees at Ohio University soon will receive a new plan.
OU kicked off a study of its classified and information technology employee positions Sept. 2, said James Kemper, director of human resources. Classified employees are paid hourly, and are not union members.
Taiwan students raise quake support
by Jason Keyser
THE POST
For three days last week, Li-Wei Huang did not know if his family was alive. His parents live in Puli Nan-Tou, a village in central Taiwan that suffered the most damage in last week's devastating earthquake. Seven thousand miles away from Athens, in a small village in Taiwan's mountainous countryside, Huang's house became a heap of debris.
A week later, half of the people in the village he grew up in are dead. The earthquake killed 2,100 people total and injured 7,300.
Speaker survived abuse
By Lauren Ketcham
THE POST
Staci Haines, a child sexual abuse survivor, uses her experiences to heal the trauma other abuse survivors have.
Last night, in a speech entitled "A Survivors Guide to Sex: A Practical and Political Look at Sex, Sexual Abuse and Recovery," the sex educator, author and trained somatics practitioner spoke to students, educators and community members about her cause.
The speech was the last in a series of events and lectures given during Sexual Assault Awareness Week. She discussed topics in her newly released book, "A Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse."
Dangerous leak stopped in Japan
by Shihoko Goto
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKAIMURA, Japan - An uncontrolled nuclear reaction at a uranium processing plant in northeastern Japan was contained early yesterday, the regional governor said, hours after a leak of radioactive gas seriously injured three workers and possibly contaminated 34 others.
"The prefecture received confirmation at 6:15 a.m. that the chain reaction has been halted," said Gov. Masaru Hashimoto.
Week to stop stereotypes
by Allison Morsek
THE POST
Redneck...Ignorant...Lazy.
These are just a few words that describe the common stereotypes of the people who live in Appalachia.
AppalAction, Ohio University's Appalachian Service Corps, is hosting Appalachian Cultural Awareness Week to celebrate the Appalachian culture while educating students, faculty and community members about frequent stereotypes.
Taft quenches farmer's thirst with drought funds
by Danielle Lipp
THE POST
Ohio farmers' thirst from the recent drought will be quenched with Gov. Bob Taft's release of $5 million in drought relief.
The drought that plagued the eastern half of the nation this summer resulted in 87 counties in Ohio being declared disaster areas. Ohio farmers lost an estimated $600 million.
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Local schools fear lower utility tax
Funding suffers if Columbia Gas gets its way
by Corrie Callaghan
THE POST
Athens County school districts are nervous because an appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court might severely cut their funding and force them to pay thousands back to Columbia Gas of Ohio.
Following the trend of utilities like MCI Telecommunications Corp. and Texas Eastern Transmissions Corp. appealing their taxes, Columbia Gas of Ohio appealed to the Supreme Court on Sept. 2, according to a news release from the Athens County Auditor's Office. The company claims its 88 percent tax rate is unfair because other companies are taxed at a 25 percent rate.
Blue-light phones necessary, but not used
by Thomas Velardo
THE POST
A young woman jogging late at night on the bike path behind South Green steals a glance behind her and notices a quickly approaching figure. Feeling uneasy, she speeds up to avoid this perceived threat.
The potential assailant continues to close in, coming within a few yards. Seeing a blue-light emergency telephone, the young woman stops and hits the large red button, instantly alerting the Ohio University Police Department to the perceived threat and her location on campus. The potential attacker, realizing that the OUPD soon will be on the scene, runs off.
Youth criminals overflow
by Lauren Gross
THE POST
In the early 1970s, the federal government ordered all states to build detention centers to separate juvenile offenders from adults. But in 1999, southeastern Ohio youth offenders from eight counties need to be separated from themselves.
The multi-county Juvenile Detention Center in Chillicothe is overcrowded nearly two to one.
HC prepares for Bunyan festival
by Jennifer Hinkle
THE POST
This weekend, the landscape of Hocking College will be decorated with more than just colorful fall foliage.
The 25th annual HC Paul Bunyan Show takes over the campus today and will remain in Nelsonville through Saturday and Sunday.
The show, like the legend of its namesake, celebrates trees, wood and tools.
Woman accused of patricide
THE ASSOCIATE PRESS
LIMA - Jurors will decide if a young woman who says she suffered through a lifetime of abuse killed her father out of anger or fear.
Paulding County Prosecutor Joseph Burkard said during yesterday's closing arguments that Mindy Berenyi was not a battered child despite her claims that her father verbally, sexually and physically abused her.
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