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Top Fitness Trends For 2018: Back To Basics
By: Patti Neighmond | NPR
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A survey of fitness professionals who keep track of how we exercise suggests 2018 is likely to find more of us trading fitness gadgets for high-intensity interval training and group classes.

Joe Jackson, Strict Manager And Father To Pop Royalty, Dead At 89
By: Felix Contreras I NPR
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The patriarch helped take his legendary family from Gary, Ind., to global stardom, though the disciplinarian streak he used to get them there proved controversial later in life.

Supreme Court To Lose Its Swing Voter: Justice Anthony Kennedy To Retire
By: Nina Totenberg | NPR
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Justice Kennedy is a moderate and a champion for the gay rights movement. President Trump will likely replace him with a staunch conservative, which would fundamentally shift the culture of the court.

WWII Soldier Receives Medal Of Honor Posthumously
By: Tom Bowman | NPR
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President Trump presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to Garlin M. Conner on Tuesday. Connor was a World War II soldier who ran ahead of his unit to call in artillery on German forces.

WOUB News • WORLD: Divorce Is Prohibited In The Philippines, But Moves Are Underway To Legalize It
By: Michael Sullivan | NPR
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The Philippines is one of only two countries where divorce remains illegal. But a new bill permitting it has passed the House. A recent survey found 53 percent of Filipinos favor allowing divorce.

Supreme Court Deals Blow To Government Unions
By: Scott Horsley | Nina Totenberg | NPR
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday 5-4 that states may not force public employees to pay agency fees to unions of which they are not a member.

Firm Hired To Investigate Lawmaker Also Donated To Him
By: Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Campaign finance filings show an outside law firm that cleared one of Ohio’s most powerful state lawmakers of a sexual harassment allegation in April gave to… Read More

Kentucky Braces For New Sales Taxes On July 1
By: Associated Press
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky residents will pay a slew of new taxes beginning next week. Starting Sunday, prices for things like car repairs, tanning bed visits, veterinarian care and… Read More

Ohio Lawmakers Look To Provide Online Academy ‘Safe Harbor’
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s Republican-led Legislature is preparing to temporarily relax academic performance standards on a virtual school that took in thousands of students from a now-shuttered competitor. The… Read More

The Picture Page: Portraits of SEO from 1966-1971 at Stuart’s
Stuart’s Opera House hosts our Monthly Happy Hour along with a special opening for our new photo exhibit on Wednesday, June 27 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Picture… Read More

PBS KIDS Announces LET’S GO LUNA!, Premiering November 21, 2018
Featuring Judy Greer as “Luna,” New Multiplatform Media Property Encourages Kids to Learn About Cultures Around the World PBS KIDS announced that the new animated social studies series LET’S GO… Read More

Inside the Mind of the Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist Jack Ohman
Editorial cartoonists, in the heyday of newspapers, were plentiful. Now the group is down to only 50 nationwide and that number is being threatened by slow extinction. One of the… Read More