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Ohio legislature votes to ban abortions at 20 weeks
Ohio legislators voted late Thursday to ban abortions after 20 weeks, sending one of the nation's strictest abortion laws to Gov. John Kasich (R). Groups that oppose abortion rights hailed the bill's passage as the first step toward challenging Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States.
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John Glenn, America's New Frontiersman, Dead at 95
Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth and later served four terms in the U.S. Senate. As a Marine fighter pilot, while flying 149 combat missions during World War II and the Korean War, he received praise for his ability to draw enemy fire and keep the plane flying with huge holes blown into its exterior. Most Americans remember Glenn for taking to space in 1962. Dubbed Friendship 7, Glenn's space capsule circled the Earth and put the United States on equal footing with the Soviet Union in the space race.
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Lawmakers Use Petland Bill to Ban Ohio Cities from Upping Minimum Wage
A bill that started out ensuring cities couldn’t limit where pet stores purchase puppies grew Tuesday to also block cities from raising their minimum wages and provide an expedited process for AT&T to install equipment needed to bring next-generation 5G wireless connectivity to Ohio.
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Shooter reported dead at Ohio State University shooting
Police are investigating whether an attack at Ohio State University which left 11 injured was an act of terror. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, rammed his car into a group of pedestrians at the college and then began stabbing people before police shot him dead on Monday. The student's motive is still not known, but terrorism is a possibility, police chief Kim Jacobs said.
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Suspect 'dead' at Ohio State University
A suspect is reportedly dead at Ohio State University that injured at least eight.
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Questions about ex-[Ohio] BCI scientist may cast doubt on convictions
Dozens, if not hundreds, of criminal convictions in Ohio could be in jeopardy because a longtime forensic scientist at the state crime lab now stands accused of slanting evidence to help cops and prosecutors build their cases. By Mike Wagner, Jill Riepenhoff, Lucas Sullivan and Earl Rinehart.
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Battleground Ohio is Coveted Territory in Election Race
As a perennial swing state and one that yields 18 electoral college votes, Ohio has long been coveted territory for U.S. presidential candidates who pour piles of cash every election cycle into wooing its voters.
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Husband who beat wife's heroin dealer with baseball bat gets probation
A man convicted of beating his wife's heroin supplier with a baseball bat has been sentenced to probation by an Ohio judge, who noted extensive support for the defendant from a community fed up with drug problems. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Edwin Sobony II could have faced eight years in prison, but was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation for felonious assault.
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Ohio child cancer survivor kills herself over bullying
The relentless bullying became too much to handle for an 11-year-old girl with a "crooked" smile, her mother said. At 3 years old, Bethany Thompson was diagnosed with a brain tumor and battled through radiation treatments. Though cancer-free since 2008, treatment caused nerve damage that changed Bethany's smile. That, and her curly hair, led to bullying, said Bethany's mother, Wendy Feucht.
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'Go ahead. Look at them,' Clinton says of the new emails
With eight days remaining until Election Day, Hillary Clinton told a crowd of supporters here Monday that the FBI should hurry up and check out the additional emails that agents said they found while investigating the estranged husband of one of her aides. "Go ahead. Look at them," the Democratic nominee said about the emails that may have been originally housed on a private server she used as secretary of state — a revelation that has thrown the presidential election into turmoil.
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“I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio
Long before Trump began appealing to rural white America, the photographer Matt Eich spent years listening to what people who feel forgotten have to say.
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A Chinese billionaire is staking his legacy — and thousands of American jobs — on this factory in Ohio
The next chapter of globalization is already unfolding inside a Chinese billionaire's factory in Ohio.
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Trooper accused of misusing police database for women's info
A former Ohio State Highway Patrol commander accused of stalking a subordinate's wife after an affair pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges alleging he accessed or kept personal information about 10 other women that was obtained from a law enforcement database without authorization. A Washington County grand jury indicted William Elschlager, 47, earlier this month on 10 counts of unauthorized use of the law enforcement automated database system.
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How Turned Off Are Voters? Check Out Tommy’s Diner
So here we are, nearing the end of 2016’s he-said, she-said race to the bottom. Through it all, through his ugly caricatures of Mexicans and Muslims, through her pretzel contortions to explain her emails, through the Russian hacking and the 3 a.m. Twitter rants and the rest, this was always going to be a “hold your nose and vote” election... By Sheryl Gay Stolberg.
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Pulled over for speeding, grieving man stunned when officer drives him 100 miles to be with family
After finding out his teenage sister had been killed in a car accident over the weekend, Mark Ross said he wanted to be with his mother as soon as he could. Without a vehicle, Ross said that he convinced someone he knew to drive, and jumped in the man's car just after 3 a.m. Sunday in Indiana. Ross wrote in a Facebook post that they were speeding through Ohio, bound for Detroit, when the lights flashed behind them.
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Ohio boy, 4, seen in disturbing picture with heroin OD'd adults, gets new home
A 4-year-old Ohio boy pictured in police photos in the back seat of a carwhile his grandmother and her boyfriend were slumped over from a drug overdose is moving in with other relatives. Columbiana County Juvenile Court administrator Dane Walton tells The Associated Press that the boy’s great uncle and great aunt in South Carolina petitioned the court for custody, which was granted Monday by a judge.
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Inside the Seldom Seen World of the Amish
Michael Hanson photographed Amish communities in Ohio and Maine.
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Emergency response triggered at school after forty students eat one of world's hottest peppers
An emergency response was initiated at a school in Ohio after around 40 children ingested Bhut Jolokia peppers – one of the hottest species in existence. An unidentified student brought the peppers into Milton Union Middle School, West Milton, and apparently shared them among other students aged 11 to 14.
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Disunion: Grant Goes to War
Grant had lived in all the surrounding states, often uncomfortably, before moving away in search of work. Residents of all these states would find things even more uncomfortable after his wartime return. Perhaps no military commander knew the border region better.
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Smack in the Suburbs
Avon Lake,Ohio is an upmarket suburb of a US city - but opiate addiction is tearing apart the fabric of the neighborhood.
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