Newark

St. John's United Church of Christ on West National Drive in Newark will honor Dolly Parton with a special prayer service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

The Housing Opportunities through Municipal Engagement diversion program connects homeless people charged with nonviolent misdemeanor crimes to services.

A microburst — a highly local, intense downdraft — ripped the roof off The Church Triumphant and damaged trees in a neighborhood on Newark's east side.

Ohio researchers have been working to create more resilient apple varieties. The Dawes Arboretum in Newark says it will no longer house the repository.

Reporters, photo journalists, videographers and digital producers announced the effort Wednesday morning.

Saturday's alignment wasn't the northernmost moon rise of the cycle, but it was close enough to provide a sense of what ancient people would have seen.

Newark police shot a man early Friday morning after officers were dispatched on a call of a suspicious person in a parking lot near a YMCA daycare. The man's condition is unknown.

Goats are set to help tackle invasive plants in Columbus' Antrim Park this summer. It's not the first time goats have done community landscape work.

Housing Opportunities Through Municipal Engagement, or HOME, court is a new special diversion court aimed at helping nonviolent misdemeanor offenders who are experiencing homelessness.

The Octagon Earthworks were, until recently, the site of Moundbuilders Country Club. The site became fully accessible to the public Jan. 1.