# What was the most newsworthy event to happen in your county (or equivalent) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119 "2014-08-08T19:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/21 "2014-08-08T23:15:41Z")
Summit County, Ohio is where LeBron James grew up and played basketball, including his noteworthy high school career. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/22 "2014-08-08T23:41:06Z")
Animal House was filmed here. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/23 "2014-08-08T23:47:06Z")
Salt Lake County, Utah: final settling place of the Mormon pioneers, in 1847, after being chased across the country. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/24 "2014-08-09T00:03:42Z")
We made the national news when: Our local nutbags protested a new English textbook on the grounds that it promoted witchcraft Students at the middle school got involved in a sexting scandal A Spanish teacher at the high school slept with one of her students Several times when local high school baseball players got drafted by the majors We’re just a hotbed of news around here. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/25 "2014-08-09T00:21:34Z")
Where I am now: [Wreck of the Ten Sails](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Ten_Sail)- pretty much as the names sosunds. In one night, ten ships in a convoy bound from Jamaica to England hit the reef and sank off the East End of Grand Cayman in February 1794. Amazingly for the time only eight sailors died. Where I grew up: The local Eastman Chemical Company provided the management and expertise to run the [Y-12 complex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex) during the [Manhattan Project](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project). It is certainly the most important and newsworthy item out of my old home county but was never discussed at the time and rarely afterwards. Wartime secrecy? ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/26 "2014-08-09T00:53:51Z")
The murder of the three RCMP officers in Moncton New Brunswick in early June. He just plead guilty today of 3 counts of 1st degree murder and 2 counts of attempted murder. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/27 "2014-08-09T01:09:39Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > West Chester, OHIO - Home of the current Speaker of the House, John Boehner. West Chester, OHIO - Home of a current desperate shortage of spray tan. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/28 "2014-08-09T01:13:46Z")
I’d tell you, but you’d think it was total bunk. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/29 "2014-08-09T02:31:48Z")
Bexar County, TX - Remember the Alamo! ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/30 "2014-08-09T03:22:02Z")
Where I lived the longest - Conroe, Texas (Montgomery County) - I would sadly say the [Clarence Brandley](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Brandley)case. Where I live now? Most recently Casey Kasem’s final days put little Port Orchard, WA (South Kitsap County) on the map. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/31 "2014-08-09T03:43:29Z")
I grew up in the same small town as Megan Meier ([Suicide of Megan Meier - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier)), although I’d moved away years before her suicide. That was probably the most noteworthy thing from that county in recent memory. Going back a bit, Lewis and Clark stopped in St. Charles for supplies at the start of their expedition. I’m sure lots of other noteworthy things have happened in the county in the past 200 years, but the Megan Meier thing was what popped into my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/32 "2014-08-09T04:28:17Z")
Washoe County Nevada (Reno)…. Reno Air Races crash in 2011. Flood on New Year’s Day 1997 which I found out about because there was a huge color picture of it in the newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/33 "2014-08-09T05:19:46Z")
The US invasion in 1989 was pretty big news… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/34 "2014-08-09T06:55:20Z")
Sacramento, CA It’s hard to say, but the first thing I thought of was the assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford, by Manson family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/35 "2014-08-09T08:03:05Z")
[Jaycee Dugard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Lee_Dugard) was found in Contra Costa County eighteen years after she was kidnapped. [The Port Chicago disaster and mutiny](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster) happened in Contra Costa County. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/36 "2014-08-09T09:18:56Z")
George Washington was here when he received notification that he had been selected as our first US President. He also lived here, but that didn’t make the papers in and of itself. . . ETA: I should note that the County has since been divided, but it was all one at the time. . . ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/37 "2014-08-09T11:52:13Z")
OP, do you mean today, or ever? I’ma go with the opening of Disneyland, on the future **kaylasmom** ’s second birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/38 "2014-08-09T14:34:41Z")
Cambria County, PA, here. We seem to have a problem with our rivers. You may remember the [floods](http://www.jaha.org/FloodMuseum/1936.html) we had in 1977 and 1936. I’m sure you’ve heard of the one we had [in 1889](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood) that killed over 2200 people. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/39 "2014-08-09T14:44:00Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Where I live now? Most recently Casey Kasem’s final days put little Port Orchard, WA (South Kitsap County) on the map. I grew up in Pierce County, which can lay claim to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Everybody has seen that film. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119/40 "2014-08-09T15:11:46Z")
The most newsworthy event in my town that happened to a friend of mine was the murder of Vaugh Henry, son of Dawn Breedon, by his father. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-most-newsworthy-event-to-happen-in-your-county-or-equivalent/695119.md?page=3)