Ironton Animal Rights Group Confronts Alleged Cockfighting In Southeastern Ohio By Liam Niemeyer • Jan 11, 2021 Screenshot / SHARK Members of an Illinois-based animal protection group say one of their members was assaulted and another was driven off the road recently after confronting a suspected cockfighting event in southeastern Ohio. Rising Waters: Aging Levees, Climate Change And The Challenge To Hold Back The Ohio River By Liam Niemeyer • Dec 19, 2019 Liam Niemeyer / Ohio Valley Resource When 78-year-old Jim Casto looks at the towering floodwalls that line downtown Huntington, West Virginia, he sees a dark history of generations past.