Ohio News
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Ohio church: drive thru for Ash Wednesday
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio church is offering a drive thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners who might be pressed for time. The Rev. Patricia Anderson Cook of Mt. Healthy United Methodist Church in suburban Cincinnati plans to provide the service for people of all faiths and services beginning around 5 p.m. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Christian
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Ohio city joins list of those banning begging
CENTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio city has joined a list of several communities banning people from begging after authorities say the number of such incidents has soared. The Dayton Daily News reports Wednesday that police in Centerville have responded to 17 complaints about begging since July, compared to just four complaints in the previous 12 months. Centerville Police Chief Bruce
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Cleveland prosecutor wants killer executed
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A prosecutor has requested an execution date for a condemned Ohio man who came close to dying by injection a decade ago before courts intervened. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason says death row inmate Gregory Lott has now exhausted all his state and federal appeals and on Tuesday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to set a
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Ohio gov OKs bill ending 'vicious' pit bull label
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pit bulls in Ohio will no longer be labeled as "vicious" dogs under a bill that's been signed into law by Gov. John Kasich. The governor on Tuesday signed the bill that changes a law defining a vicious dog as one that has seriously hurt or killed a person, killed another dog or is among those
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Feds: Ohioan against fur planned murder-for-hire
CLEVELAND (AP) — Federal authorities say an Ohio woman describing herself as an animal rights activist has been charged with soliciting murder in a plot to kill someone wearing fur. Court records show 27-year-old Meredith Lowell of Cleveland Heights appeared Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland and was ordered held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next week.
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Few OH counties use funds to pursue sex offenders
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's attorney general says only 13 of Ohio's 88 counties have used federal funds available for bringing back convicted sex offenders who flee the state without informing authorities. State Attorney General Mike DeWine is urging more counties to use money from a program he set up last April. It reimburses counties for the cost of bringing
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Ohio couple sentenced to 12 years in boys' deaths
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge has sentenced an Ohio couple to 12 years in prison each following their conviction in the drowning of the woman's 3-year-old son and disappearance of his 2-year-old brother during a camping trip. Multiple media outlets reported the sentences handed down Tuesday by Muskingum County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark Fleegle for Kasey Klein and
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Ohio's 1st casino shaping up; next comes the slots
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio's first casino is emerging from a former department store, with kitchen equipment and carpet installed, lighting fixtures ready and the art deco surroundings awaiting slot machines and game tables. Backers of the Horseshoe Cleveland casino showed off the location Tuesday and said the installation of slot machines will begin next week. Principal Jeff Cohen with Rock
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Ohio teen sentenced in rape of child at McDonald's
CINCINNATI (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who admitted to a charge of raping a 5-year-old girl at a McDonald's play area in southwest Ohio has been sentenced to an inpatient treatment facility for at least six months. The Hamilton County Juvenile Court administrator says the boy must successfully complete treatment before his release from the secured center. The judge on
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Execution date requested for Cleveland killer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors have requested an execution date for a Cleveland man on death row since 1986 for killing a produce salesman during a robbery. The request by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason comes as Ohio executions are in the midst of an unofficial moratorium while federal courts weigh the state's lethal injection policies. Mason on Thursday asked
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Commuters reminded of Ohio bridge demolition
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Authorities reminded commuters in eastern Ohio of a planned explosion to bring down the remainder of an Ohio River bridge. The Ohio Department of Transportation closed the 83-year-old Fort Steuben Bridge three years ago because of deteriorating conditions and its limited use. The Steubenville Herald-Star reports Tuesday that residents of the Ohio River city needed to change
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Ohio high school reopens after odor closes doors
GALLOWAY, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio high school is reopening after students missed a week of classes due to an odor that made several feel ill. The odor initially canceled classes for a day, but that turned into a week of closed doors after the smell persisted and an investigation was launched. The Columbus Dispatch reports Tuesday that district officials
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Police say Ohio man suspect in 18 robberies
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police say a man arrested after an unoccupied Columbus house was broken into is a suspect in 18 robberies that may have been committed to feed a heroin addiction. Police also say the man is not a suspect in the shooting death of a night clerk in a suburban Dublin gas station earlier this month in
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Ohio authorities search for missing prison inmate
LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) — Police are searching for an inmate who apparently escaped from a holding area at a southeast Ohio prison by scaling a wall. WBNS-TV reports Tuesday that the inmate was being held on a felony warrant from Missouri at an annex near the Southeastern Correctional Institution near Lancaster. Investigators say the inmate's disappearance was discovered just before midnight.
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ODOT director says delays not due to gas tax use
Ohio's transportation director says proposed delays for millions of dollars in road and bridge projects are not the result of differences in the use of federal gasoline taxes paid by residents. At issue is the federal fund for transportation improvements nationwide. The Columbus Dispatch reports Ohioans pay more into the fund each year than Ohio gets in return. That adds
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Ohio Gas Prices Rise Again, May Continue to Climb
Gasoline prices are up more than a dime from last week at Ohio pumps. The state's average price for regular gas was $3.45 in Monday's survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. That's up 12 cents from the average of $3.33 per gallon a week ago. Drivers were paying an average of about $3.10
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2 old Japanese grenades found at Ohio estate sale
KETTERING, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say two Japanese grenades from the World War II era caused a scare when they were found during an estate sale in a residential area of southwestern Ohio. The Dayton Daily News reports the Dayton bomb squad was called Sunday evening after someone found the explosives at the sale in suburban Kettering. The squad safely
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2 avoid injury as plane crashes near Ohio runway
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — State troopers say two people escaped uninjured when a small plane crashed during a landing attempt at a northwestern Ohio airport. The State Highway Patrol says part of the landing gear for the single-engine prop plane locked up as the aircraft was descending on Sunday. The plane skidded off the runway and tipped to the
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Pregnant woman, toddler killed in Ohio hit-and-run
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Police in Dayton say a pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter were killed in a hit-and-run crash. Multiple media outlets say the two were struck by a vehicle Sunday night, apparently while they were walking in the street. Investigators found the suspected vehicle several blocks from where the mother and daughter were hit. Police were interviewing
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Woman's trail of fake pregnancies ends in Pa. jail
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Amy Slanina is sitting in a western Pennsylvania jail cell on charges that she stole the services of a women's shelter by claiming to be the battered wife of a cop who shelter officials eventually determined didn't exist. But that arrest has shone a spotlight on her history, tracked down through court records and interviews conducted by
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Police find remains of Ohio girl missing in 1999
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Police say the skeleton of a 14-year-old Ohio girl who went missing in 1999 have been found after the home where she was last seen was demolished. The Lima News reports that Lima police on Saturday said the remains of Nicholle Coppler were found in a crawl space as the home's foundation was being dug out. A
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Money woes might mean end for Ohio village
UNIOPOLIS, Ohio (AP) — Big cuts in Ohio's spending might mean the end for a village in northwest Ohio. Officials in Uniopolis already have cut their budget in half and have laid off the only police officer in the village of 272 people. Now they say the only option might be to dissolve the village and let Union Township take
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Report: Initial AEP plan easier on Ohio small biz
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A newspaper reports that an initial rate plan submitted to Ohio utility regulators by American Electric Power did not include increases to small businesses that have since been approved. The Columbus Dispatch reports Sunday that an analysis shows the plan proposed a year ago would have increased rates for large manufactures and reduced them for many small
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Ohio looks up for grabs as GOP primary nears
CINCINNATI (AP) — In swing-state Ohio, support has been swinging in a lot of directions as the Republican presidential primary approaches. Polls have shown lead changes every month since last fall, and a new statewide poll indicates that about half of likely primary voters still may change their minds by March 6. The Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found Rick Santorum
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Sheriff in Ohio wants review of office management
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The sheriff in Ohio's capital city will have a management study conducted after a newspaper analysis showed his office paid $3.8?million in overtime in 2011 and that deputies received 62,000 hours of comp time. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott requested funds for the study following its analysis of the office. County commissioners