In case you’ve been wondering, Stephanie Wilson said yes. She intends to go to the prom with the towheaded boy on the billboard.

It’s not often a person gets to rescue a national treasure, but Joan Smith of Fayette, Ohio, recently did — though she didn’t know it at the time.

More than six years later, Joseph Dittmar’s eyes still fill and his voice still breaks when he describes the horror and heroism he witnessed in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Bobby L. Cutts Jr. took the first step in appealing his aggravated murder conviction Friday with the filing of paperwork with the 5th District Court of Appeals. Cutts, 30, is serving a life-sentence for the deaths of Jessie M. Davis and their unborn daughter and won’t be eligible for parole until he has spent 57 years behind bars.

Nothing could have prepared Naso Karas for what awaited him the morning of June 5, 2006. Karas, a driver for Metro Disposal, stopped at 215 Ninth St. S.W. in Massillon to collect a payment and pick up the trash. The woman who answered the door was crying. Her baby had died.     

A former Massillon, Ohio, man has been charged with murder nearly two years after the death of his 4-month-old daughter.

On a hillside, a nomadic group of people lives together in perfect harmony. In 17 trailers, motor homes and campers of all sizes, they brave wind, rain, mud and snow. A Kampgrounds of America campsite is their permanent yet temporary home. This time of year, it’s occupied mostly by men and women who follow jobs around the country. Some stay for days; others for months. They are skilled professional migrant workers.

A sign posted outside the home of Richard Jay gets the message across. He’s looking for the person who shot his family’s dog. And he’s angry.

Prompting charges of censorship, Malone College in Canton, Ohio, this week removed hundreds of copies of its student newspaper from campus because that edition had a photo of naked male students.

Ohio soldiers back from Iraq, or still serving, reflect on the war on terror as it turns five years old.

Jeff Vogelgesang should have warned his pooch: Don’t bite the $4,100 Internal Revenue Service refund check that feeds you. Last week, Vogelgesang’s 4-month-old Doberman pinscher, Nevaeh, got into the mail and devoured the IRS check, panicking the Ohio man.

Ohio’s everyday heroes now can receive a lower rate through the Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s (OHFA) First-Time Homebuyer Program. Ohio Heroes offers a 30-year fixed mortgage to first-time homebuyers who are active military personnel or military veterans, firefighters or emergency medial technicians-paramedics, healthcare workers, police officers or teachers.