By Dean Shipley Madison-Plains biology II students took a directive from a science and education program, ran with it and said very well, “don’t just read science, do science!” The 17 students in the elective class created a video for a contest conducted by GLOBE Student Climate Research Campaign and won first place in [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Jason U.N. Copley will spend his 20th birthday in jail on Tuesday — less than a day after pleading guilty to holding up the BP Station at 51 E. High St., London, in December. Copley, of 31 W. Fourth St. in the city, pleaded guilty in Madison County Common [...]
For The Madison Press The London Lions Club recently made a donation to the London Public Library of an Apple iPad Mini to be used for programs benefiting the visually impaired as an eReader device. Lion Alexander Fisher acquired the iPad and made the arrangement to make the presentation to library director Mike Hensel [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A Columbus man was sentenced to a year of community control on Friday for possessing a stolen credit card in 2010. Khristopher Morris, 34, 96 S. Burgess Ave., pleaded guilty in Madison County Common Pleas Court in March to receiving stolen property. A second charge of identity fraud was dismissed [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor Jaron Miller is the first, but surely won’t be the last Jonathan Alder bowler to bowl at the college level. Miller inked his name to a letter of intent to compete at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima last week in a ceremony held at Plain City Lanes. [...]
By Dean Shipley Press Staff Writer As a volunteer, Amy Rickens has doubled her pleasure. The mother of a son and two daughters volunteers as a Girl Scout troop leader for not just one, but both of her daughters. While she herself as a youth was not a Girl Scout (briefly she was a [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer When it comes to organ and tissue donations, more are needed. So said Kaitlyn Thompson, spokeswoman for Lifeline of Ohio, which takes the lead in the mission to gather more and as a result, save lives. April is recognized as Donate Life month. Thompson said 58 percent of county [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor After back-to-back tough losses to two of the better teams in the South Central Ohio League, the Madison-Plains baseball team finally found a way to get a win, doing so at the expense of rival London on Tuesday. The Golden-Eagles scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh [...]
