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Latin Thelonious Monk: Jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri, who has made more than 30 albums and earned nine Grammys in the past five decades, will play at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St.

STEUBENVILLE a ' It was appropriate that antipasto was the final word spelled by Dharani Kotekal, the winner of the 26th annual Herald-Star Jefferson County Regional Spelling Bee held Saturday at Eastern Gateway Community College.

At the Washington C.H. Service, Safety and Recreation Committee meeting the Septage rate increase was again discussed by the members.

Site Selection magazine has chosen the Dayton area as the top metropolitan area for economic development efforts in the nation in the Tier 2 category in 2009, the Dayton Development Coalition said Wednesday, March 3. It was the second consecutive year the magazine selected Dayton for that recognition.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio state employees can breathe a sigh of relief. Unlike many of their counterparts across the nation, Ohio has a solid long-term grip on its pension and health benefit funds.

On the agenda, Tresurer Ben Teeters will recommend the acceptance of donations totaling over $400,000 which includes state funding.

NEW WASHINGTON: Beloved wife, mother and grandmother, Mary E. Niedermeier, went home to Christ January 26, 2010 after a brief illness.

Here's an early draft of a story scheduled to run in Sunday's Dayton Daily News, followed in the "jump" by a list of restaurants that will be participating, their addresses and phone numbers.

Organizers of the Jefferson County spelling bee are excited about the fresh look of this year's contest.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio's mid-sized communities with distressed neighborhoods will get $25 million in federal relief through a Housing and Urban Development grant awarded Thursday.

The Fayette County Sheriff's Office reports that a Bloomingburg woman struck a vehicle in a trailer park and then left.

CHILLICOTHE: It is one of the very best vistas in Ohio. And very few people know about it.

At Monday night's Washington C.H. School Board meeting Superintendent Keith Brown told the board that the Ohio Department of Education is taking applications for the "Race to the Top" grant.

The Associated Press reports that women with low incomes are being turned away or put on long waiting lists for free cancer screenings in at least 20 states.

SHELBY: Helen T. Feichtner, age 94, former Shelby resident died Friday, November 20, 2009 at Brethren Care Village in Ashland, Ohio.

WASHINGTON -- Ohio residents deemed most at risk for the H1N1 virus should have been vaccinated by now, and vaccination efforts now are focusing on a larger at-risk population, the state health director said.

A University of Idaho professor suspended from sheep research duties since June has repeated claims that wild bighorns don't catch fatal diseases from domestic sheep, despite pledging not to disseminate information on the issue until the school completes an inquiry into her work.

In the wee hours of Sunday, at Khrome Bar and Lounge on Atlantic Avenue, a bar brawl between two women sent two men to the hospital.

Wilmington C.H., Ohio -- The Fayette County Health Department will offer another H1N1 vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. until noon Saturday.