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High school coach, correctional officer takes own life amid student-rape investigation

PIKE COUNTY, Ohio — The 53-year-old Ross County man placed on administrative leave from his assistant coaching position with the Huntington Huntsmen girls’ softball team amid rape allegations involving a 17-year-old female student has been identified as Brian Felts of Beaver, Ohio. Felts took his own life on Thursday in Pike County. His body was […]

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An Ohio explosives plant silenced its alarms. Then nearly two tons of toxic gas poured into Vinton County

MCARTHUR, Ohio — For weeks before the explosion of toxic gas that forced a Vinton County community to evacuate, the warning signs were there. The temperature inside a storage tank full of explosive-laden acid was climbing. Alarms were going off. And someone kept turning them off. On the morning of June 11, 2025, nearly two […]

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