Newark Advocate

NEWARK -- Monisha Grooms doesn't know if her baby, due in January, will be a boy or a girl. But she does know it will be named after her brother, Chris Grooms.

NEWARK -- For several years, a group of neighbors around the 11th and Granville streets intersection have been fighting use of a small service station in their residential neighborhood.

DENVER (AP) -- When Barack Obama and Joe Biden campaign by bus in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio after wrapping up the Democratic National Convention, they'll be following a familiar route.

HEATH -- American Electric Power officials, who have hit the road to explain their proposed rate increase, met with local mayors Wednesday at the Davis-Shai House.

HEBRON -- When the decision is made to close Interstate 70, it isn't just commuters who are affected.

NEWARK -- The Newark City Schools Finance Committee met Wednesday to further discuss revisiting trip charges for organizations, such as athletics, that rent buses, as well as an administrator and staff travel policy.

NEWARK -- Sue Hannah walked into a Columbus Clippers game in June unaware that within the next hour, she would be on her way to a $500 prize and a large-scale singing debut.

PATASKALA -- A man was hospitalized Wednesday evening after receiving a serious puncture wound to his arm in a stabbing, said Pataskala Police Chief Chris Forshey, and a suspect in his custody.

NEWARK -- A 24-year-old Newark man accused in eight thefts of copper downspouts was arrested by Newark police earlier this week.

NEWARK -- The Ohio State University-Newark will hold its 2008 convocation at 11 a.m. Sept. 23 at the Alford Performing Arts Hall in the John Gilbert Reese Center.

NEWARK — For several years a group of neighbors around the 11th and Granville streets intersection have been fighting use of a small service station in their residential neighborhood.

83-year-old Inez Crutchfield will watch a black man take the nomination to be the Democratic Party's candidate for president of the United States. "I am so in awe," Crutchfield said. "It never dawned on me that I would see this day."