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- Obama's Symbol for Health Reform Hospitalized
Hollywood Heavyweights Hosted at th... March 11, 2010 President Obama's Pen-Pal Hospitalized President Obama's pen-pal has taken ill.
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- Study details how Census leads to funds
Financially battered states get about 20 percent of their money from federal funds, so they're paying special attention to the Census this month.
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- House orders further probe on Massa timeline
WASHINGTON -- The House voted Thursday to request an investigation into how long Democratic leaders knew about sexual misconduct allegations involving former Democratic Rep.
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- Ex-AP reporter, bureau chief Nance dies in Ohio
John Nance, a former Associated Press reporter and photographer who covered the Vietnam War and later oversaw the news cooperative's operations in the Philippines, has died.
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- Amtrak to review service on 2 national routes in Ohio
Amtrak says it is looking for ways to improve service on two long-distance routes that pass through Ohio.
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- ACORN agrees to leave Ohio under settlement
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law had filed a lawsuit against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN's full name.
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- Gates says Afghanistan drawdown could accelerate
Congressional opponents of the war in Afghanistan forced a debate Wednesday on the floor of the House of Representatives on a resolution to bring U.S. forces home and end the eight-year-old war.
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- Ohio high court to consider case on Cleveland, cities' gun laws
The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a 2006 state law that lifted most local gun restrictions.
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- Tribes face hurdles with sex offender registration
Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S. Justice Department official said Wednesday.States and tribes have until this summer to implement the registration and notification ...
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- Central Ohio jobless rate hits 26-year high
More than 5,000 Central Ohioans joined the ranks of the unemployed who were looking for a job in January, pushing the seven-county region's jobless rate to its highest level in more than a quarter-century, according to new data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
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- Complex's ad draws lawsuit
The suit filed in Dayton U.S. district court says The Connor Group ran a Craigslist online ad last year touting a bachelor pad for single men looking to "hook up." That drew the attention of the Miami Valley Fair Housing center, which seeks at least $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, an order that Connor Group employees get fair housing ...
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- 2 former day care workers in Ohio charged with slipping kids sleep supplement at nap time
Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement to make them sleep.
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- Man flees after crashing, flipping on I-75; lane closed near Ohio 73
FRANKLIN TWP., Warren County - A 22-year-old Middletown man fled the scene after hitting a guardrail and flipping his girlfriend's Gold Honda CRV on northbound Interstate 75 at the 40 mile marker, just north of Ohio 73 at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 9. According to Ohio Highway Patrol Dispatcher Tiffany Coy, of the Lebanon Post of the Ohio State ...
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- Ohio man gets 5 years for giving wife AIDS
Authorities say the unsuspecting woman had a 14-year relationship with Fernando Castro.
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- Ohio Senate Passes Dating Violence Protection Bill
Ohio Senators have unanimously passed a House bill that would allow juvenile courts to issue protection orders for minors in dating relationships.
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