A man who served as a former fire official, police officer and Gallia County 911 administrator has been sentenced to 18 ...

A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced for starting more than 20 fires in the Wayne ...

A former southeastern Ohio fire department administrator will serve 18 months in federal prison after admitting to starting dozens of wildfires in Wayne National Forest. U.S. District Court Judge ...

GALLIA COUNTY, Ohio — A former fire department administrator and police officer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for starting dozens of arson fires in Wayne National Forest three years ago.

GALLIA COUNTY, Ohio (WCHS) — A former Gallia County, Ohio, fire department worker and police officer was sentenced to prison Monday for starting dozens of fires in Wayne National Forest ...

ATHENS, Ohio— A new Bureau of Land Management plan to open 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest to fracking for oil and gas looks almost identical to one a federal judge rejected in 2020. The ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio― A federal judge blocked new oil and gas leasing and fracking in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest late Monday, following a ruling last year rebuking the Bureau of Land Management and U.S.

James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.

WOODSFIELD — Twenty parcels covering 1,147.1 acres of Wayne National Forest in Monroe County, Ohio, are expected to garner more than $5 million in new mineral leases for the federal Bureau of ...

James Bartels, a former 911 dispatcher in southeast Ohio, admitted to starting dozens of fires to "give the boys something to do." ...