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Sarah Thomas Becomes First Woman To Referee College Football Bowl Game

AP | Posted 12.26.2009 | Sports

Read More: Pam Ward, Ford Field, Pizza Bowl, Sarah Thomas, Little Ceasars Bowl, College Football, Football, First Female Referee, Ohio, Bowl, Line Judge, Marshall, Terri Valenti, Sports News

DETROIT — Sarah Thomas made history at the Pizza Bowl on Saturday, becoming the first woman to officiate a bowl game when she worked the matchup...

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James Traficant, Who Served Seven Years In Prison May Try To Return To Congress

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressman, Corruption, Jim Traficant, James Traficant, Traficant Return, Prison, Traficant, Ohio, Politics News

CLEVELAND — Former Rep. James Traficant, who was recently released from prison after serving seven years for corruption, said Thursday that he i...

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Anthony Russo Arrested: Man Dressed As Santa Tried To Kidnap Girl, Say Police In Parma, Ohio

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Santa Kidnapping, Santa, Abduction, Parma, Kidnapping, Ohio, Christmas, Home News

PARMA, Ohio — Police near Cleveland say a man dressed as Santa Claus tried to kidnap a 12-year-old girl walking to school. Anthony Russo was la...

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Text Message Scam Targets Unemployed

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Identity Theft, Cell Phones, Scam, Unemployment, Fraud, Text Message, Mobile Phones, Ohio, Unemployment Benefits, Umeployed, Technology News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Authorities say a text message scam is targeting Ohioans who receive unemployment benefits. Attorney General Richard Cordray s...

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Ohio's Perverse First Place

Deborah W. Denno | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Punishment, Ohio Death Penalty, Ken Biros, Death Penalty Debate, Ohio, Death Penalty, Ohio Lethal Injection, Lethal Injection, Politics News

Over the decades, lethal injection has never met its purported goal of humaneness. And Ohio's latest method of using a single-drug formula does nothing to correct this.

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Biros Execution: Man Executed In Ohio By One-Drug Lethal Injection

Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kenneth Biros Executed, Biros, Biros Executed, Ohio, Biros Execution, Kenneth Biros, Kenneth Biros Execution, Death, Politics News

The execution of Kenneth Biros was carried out in Ohio this morning after a federal appeals court refused to intervene. Biros died at 11:47 a.m. af...

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Kenneth Biros Execution Set For Tuesday In Ohio

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Biros Execution, Kenneth Biros, Kenneth Biros Ohio, Kenneth Biros Execution, Execution, Ohio Execution, Ohio, Home News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An appeals court on Friday refused to delay the execution of an Ohio inmate who could become the first person in the United States ...

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Joshua Hunter, Fort Drum Soldier, Arrested For Stabbing Deaths Of Waide James, Diego Valbuena

AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Diego Valbuena, Army, Ohio, Fort Drum, Waide James, Joshua Hunter, Joshua Hunter Arrested, New York, Evans Mills, New York News

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio early Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the stabbing deaths ...

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Unemployment Up In Almost Half Of U.S. Metro Areas

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Market, Fresno-California, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Metro Areas, Ohio, Labor Department, Jobs, Ocean City New Jersey, Cities, Business News

WASHINGTON — Unemployment worsened or stayed the same in most metro areas in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday, as jobs remained scar...

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Police: Christmas-Hating Man Stole Salvation Army Kettle In Maumee, Ohio

AP | by JOHN SEEWER | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Salvation Army Kettle, Salvation Army Bell, Charity, Maumee Ohio, Ohio, Christmas, Salvation Army, Bell Ringer, Home News

MAUMEE, Ohio — A man who claimed to hate Christmas shoved a Salvation Army bell ringer to the ground and swiped one of the charity's red kettles...

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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Hank Paulson, Certified Financial Consultant, Goldman Sachs, Dr. Lawrence Summers, George W. Bush, Progressives, Obama Economic Team, Lawrence Summers, Arianna Huffington, K Street, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street Bonuses, Lottery Winners, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington Real Estate, McNay Settlement Group, K Street Lobbyists, Republican National Committee, Charlie Rose, Richmond Kentucky, Double Digit Unemployment, Washington DC, Democratic National Committee, Clu, Dr. Alan Greenspan, Change We Can Believe In, Million Dollar Round Table, Big Money, Henry Paulson, Faculty Lounge, Structured Setlements, Alan Greenspan, Huffington Post, Small Business, President Obama, Sherrod Brown, Obama Administration, Main Street, Jobs, Depressions, Harvard, Ohio, Financial Crisis, Mark Twain, American College, Personal Finance, Msfs, Recessions, Chfc, Economic Crisis, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Kentucky, Don McNay, Economic Despair, Chartered LIfe Underwriter, Wall Street, Vanderbilt University, Mike and the Mechanics, Warren Buffett, Eastern Kentucky University, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Partisanship, Estate Tax, Business News

Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

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Good News or Bad Ideas? States Re-examine Marriage Amendments

Bil Browning | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michigan, Ohio, Marriage Amendments, Kentucky, Constitutional Amendment, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

The equality drumbeat has rumbled on with news that Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Texas will be attempting to re-examine their amendments banning same-sex marriage and civil unions.

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Survivors Of Accused Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Sought By Cleveland Police

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Rapist, Serial Killer, Rape, Police, Crime, Ohio, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, Felon, Sowell Survivors, Sexual Assault, Cleveland Police, Sausage Factory, Murder, Anthony Sowell, Cleveland, House of Horrors, Sowell, Convict, Cops, Home News

CLEVELAND — Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning its attention ...

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Stench Returns To Accused Serial Killer's Neighborhood As Police Search For More Bodies Next Door

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Anthony Sowell Home, Anthony Sowell Rapist, Cleveland, Ohio Home Stench, Ohio, Death Smell, Ohio Home Smell, Anthony Sowell Serial Killer, Serial Killer, Rape, Crime, Police, Smell of Death, Anthony Sowell, Sowell's Victims, Sausage Factory, Rotting, Murder, Home News

CLEVELAND — A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door f...

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Anthony Sowell's Neighbor Says Police Knew About Cleveland Rapist's House

New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Rape, Violence Against Women, Anthony Sowell, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Police, Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell Rapist, Bodies Found, Sex Offenders, Anthony Sowell Rape, Cops, Sex Offender Tracking, Home News

A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...

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Big Ag To Sway Ohio Voters On Treatment Of Farm Animals

Mother Jones | Kevin Drum | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Production, Big Ag, Agribusiness, Caged Animals, Humane Treatment of Animals, Meat Industry, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News

Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a boar...

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Casting a Moral Vote Against Big Ag

David Sirota | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Issue 2, Ohio, Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Green News

Our macho culture portrays vegetarianism as unacceptably "weak" or "bleeding heart." But it is finding a powerful constituency at the ballot box.

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VIDEO: Vote Against Corporate Agribusiness

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Agriculture, Issue 2, Regulations, Lobbyists, Organic Food, Ohio, Factory Farms, Food, Agribusiness, Corporations, Green News

Issue 2 will amend Ohio's state constitution to create a small regulatory panel to oversee all of Ohio's livestock. Corporate agribusinesses love the idea, but family farms will be crushed.

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On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Gmos, Cafos, Michael Pollan, Corn, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

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We Can't Reform Health Care without Reforming Food

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.

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Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.

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Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: National Debt, House Agriculture Committee, Bailout, National Pork Producers Council, Swine Flu, Ohio, Factory Farms, Usda, Pork, H1n1, Green News

The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.

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Ending Hate Crime

Lee Fisher | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matthew Shepard Act, Matthew Shepard, Hate Crimes, Lee Fisher, Hate Crimes Bill, Ohio, Politics News

I am heartened that Congress has finally passed a bill that would strengthen the ability of governments at all levels to investigate and prosecute hate crime.

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