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Police Officer Meets Ohio Man He Saved Nearly 20 Years Ago
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Columbus police officer was taken by surprise when he met an Ohio man he saved from drowning nearly 20 years ago. The Columbus Dispatch reports that both Christopher Jones and officer James Poole were overcome with emotion Friday when they met for the first time since the 1997 incident. The… Read More
2 Decades Pass Since Toyota Groundbreaking in West Virginia
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BUFFALO, W.Va. (AP) — Two decades have passed since ground was broken on Toyota West Virginia Motor Manufacturing’s engine and transmission plant in Putnam County. On Sept. 18, 1996, Japanese and American officials planted 10 Japanese maple trees at a ceremony in Buffalo. The plant opened in 1998 with about 300 employees. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports… Read More
Village Police Chief in Spotlight of Ohio’s Heroin Battle
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NEWTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The veteran police chief in a mostly rural Ohio village where major crimes are rare has found himself in the spotlight on the front lines against heroin overdoses in one of the nation’s hardest-hit states. Thomas Synan Jr. of Newtown has led the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition task force amid a… Read More
Report: Ohio 4th in Country in Catalytic Converter Thefts
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau says Ohio ranks fourth in the nation in the number of catalytic converter thefts stolen from vehicles. The report says thefts of the emission-control devices from vehicles totaled more than 1,400 in Ohio between 2008 and 2015. California led the way with… Read More
Legend, History and Phenomena: Mothman Festival 2016
By: Emily Votaw
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There are many things to examine while traveling the windy roads that lead to Point Pleasant, WV. As one approaches the Ohio River, the landscape grows untamed, swallowing up the ramshackle homes that cling to the messy, sloping hillsides. Hand-wrought signs with red letters on plywood slates are tacked onto the trees next to the highway,… Read More
Pain Care Lobby Gave $3.5M in Ohio as Opioid Deaths Climbed
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As Ohio’s accidental overdose epidemic climbed toward a record high, an army of lobbyists representing makers of prescription painkillers poured more than $3.5 million into Ohio political coffers. Data analyzed by The Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity show pharmaceutical companies and allied groups belonging to the Pain Care… Read More
Ex-Inmate Wins $3M in Suit After Ohio Failed to File Answer
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former inmate has won $3 million in a lawsuit against an Ohio prison after the state failed to file an answer for several years. John Henricks had sued Dr. Ida Gonzalez and the Pickaway Correctional Institution, where she worked in June 2008, alleging Gonzalez failed to give him the proper… Read More
College Credit Program Costing Ohio School Districts
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A statewide program in Ohio that offers free college credit to middle- and high-schoolers may save parents and students money, but taxpayers in school districts will be left with the tab. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the College Credit Plus program cost schools in Columbus’s South-Western City School District about $250,000 for… Read More
Trump Plans Return Visit to Northwest Ohio on Wednesday
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to return to northwest Ohio this week. His campaign says he’s scheduled to attend a lunchtime rally Wednesday at Toledo’s Stranahan Theater. It’s his second visit to the city since the businessman became the GOP nominee at the party’s July convention in Cleveland. Trump also… Read More
Ohio Officials Promote Ways to Prevent Falls
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio authorities are urging residents to help raise awareness of the risks of falling, a particular threat to the state’s increasing older population. The state Department of Aging suggests several ways to support “10 million steps to prevent falls,” including National Fall Prevention Awareness Day on Sept. 22. They include taking… Read More
Police Arrest Robbery Suspect Who Was With Boy Shot By Cop
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect who was with a 13-year-old Ohio boy shortly before the teen was fatally shot by a policeman investigating a reported armed robbery. Nineteen-year-old Demetrius Braxton had told The Columbus Dispatch he was with Tyre King on Wednesday night and Tyre had sought to rob someone. Columbus… Read More