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Updated: November/21/2009
Ohio sues big credit rating units over losses
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COLUMBUS — Ohio Friday became the second state to go after the big-three credit-rating agencies for allegedly “aiding and abetting’’ Wall Street in convincing investors that shaky mortgage-backed securities were safe.
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Updated: November/21/2009
Special interests faulted for judicial votes
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland Friday embraced discussions about jettisoning special-interest money from the selection of Ohio justices but stopped short of endorsing the end of popular elections.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Ohio judicial elections tested
Even North Carolina state Rep. Chris Heagarty knows the name Alice Resnick and can recite the attack ad allegations made against the former Ohio Supreme Court justice nine years ago.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Detroit cops seize 14 kilos of cocaine
Lawrence Martin was arrested early Saturday morning in a parking lot outside a Detroit bar when police found five kilograms of cocaine in his car.
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Updated: November/20/2009
Entertainers’ surrogate testifies in Ohio
The woman who bore twin girls for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick testified Thursday that she was living in a West Virginia motel around the time a police chief is accused of breaking into her eastern Ohio home.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Dems shoot down GOP’s Ohio budget fix
A Republican proposal to partially delay an income tax cut and confiscate $200 million in one-time casino licensing fees was promptly shot down Wednesday by Democrats. The fight over how to patch an $851 million hole in the state budget could continue into Thanksgiving week
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Updated: November/19/2009
New coalition gets behind Ohio bill to reduce obesity
Ohio’s children are fat and getting fatter. The problem has reached such alarming proportions that a new, powerful coalition of businesses and health-care advocates is pushing for statewide standards designed to make Ohio students healthier.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Authorities seize more evidence at Cleveland death house
Investigators used shovels, a sledgehammer, and a concrete-busting drill Wednesday in a renewed search of the home of a registered sex offender where 10 bodies and a skull have been found, but police said no additional bodies were found.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Father accused of killing son, 15, for alleged sex with tot
A 37-year-old father irate over hearing that his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot, and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.
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Updated: November/18/2009
FBI agent: Feds seek info about ex-Detroit mayor
DETROIT — An FBI agent says a federal financial investigation led him to interview a person at a real estate office who worked with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his wife to find a leased mansion where they live.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Ohio justices discuss disability of juror
In a case watched closely by advocacy groups for the disabled, the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday pondered whether a juror can be disqualified from a case because of a hearing impairment.
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Updated: November/18/2009
3 bureaucrats cheat Ohio of work time, probe finds
Three bureaucrats cheated the state out of $38,000 worth of work time by making personal phone calls, running a private real-estate business, and golfing while on the clock, watchdog reports said Tuesday.
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Updated: November/17/2009
82 projects filmed in Michigan since April 2008
LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Film Office says 82 projects have been filmed in the state since April 2008, when it introduced tax incentives that are among the nation's most generous.
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Updated: November/17/2009
Turnpike severance offered to pare ranks
The Ohio Turnpike's full-time toll collectors will be offered a $35,000 "golden handshake" under a plan the turnpike commission approved yesterday in hopes of reducing its work force following the introduction of electronic toll collection.
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Updated: November/17/2009
Ohio accountants outline options to fill budget gap
Those paid to crunch numbers for taxpayers Monday urged Ohio not to lose sight of a massive crisis looming ahead as it searches for a quick fix to the state's immediate $851 million budget hole.
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Updated: November/16/2009
Ohio to defend 3 in "Joe the Plumber" suit
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio taxpayers are paying the bill for the legal defense of three ex-state employees sued by “Joe the Plumber,” who claims they illegally accessed his personal information leading to last fall's presidential election.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Police questioned Sowell in December after rape claim
A woman told authorities in December that a man now accused of killing 11 women had beaten her and tried to rape her, and police and prosecutors are giving conflicting explanations for why the case, which could have led them months earlier to the bodies scattered around the suspect's house, was abandoned.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Ohio designs single-drug execution
Ohio on Friday announced it will become the first state in the nation to switch to a one-drug method of execution, essentially administering a massive barbiturate overdose. The state also will employ a back-up of injecting drugs directly into a muscle when prison medical technicians can't find useable veins, such as occurred Sept. 15 in the failed execution of Romell Broom.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Michigan's '08 roads report calls 33% poor
One-third of Michigan roads were in poor condition in 2008, a percentage that could climb dramatically in coming years if lawmakers don't pump more money into transportation, road advocates said this week.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Baby-sitting exemption goes to Granholm
The Michigan Senate has voted to exempt baby-sitting from day care regulations after the state ordered a woman to stop watching her friend's children before school.
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Updated: November/13/2009
Michigan Senate OKs plan to cut park fees
Michigan drivers would get unlimited access to state parks for $10 a year if a funding plan that cleared a legislative hurdle Thursday wins final approval.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Track leaps ahead of legalized gambling with slotlike games
Just two days after Ohioans approved casinos in the state's largest cities, a central Ohio horse-racing track found an end run around the law that still prohibits slot machines and other Las Vegas-style gambling.
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Updated: November/11/2009
Stench returns near Ohio house that had 11 bodies
A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence.
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Updated: November/11/2009
Sentencing reform urged
COLUMBUS - Ohio's bulging prisons are just slightly less crowded thanks to a recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling, but the state's corrections director told lawmakers yesterday he doesn't expect that to last long.
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Updated: November/10/2009
Casinos concern Ohio's horse racing industry
COLUMBUS - Ohio's governor and members of the horse racing industry are concerned that casinos recently approved for four cities by Ohio voters could hurt the state's struggling racing industry.
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Updated: November/09/2009
Case against Cleveland bodies suspect expands overseas
CLEVELAND — Authorities are investigating whether a suspected serial killer whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.
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Updated: November/09/2009
Case against Ohio bodies suspect widens worldwide
CLEVELAND — Authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military.
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Updated: November/09/2009
Ohio Democrats, GOP prepare '10 ammunition
COLUMBUS - Democratic stronghold New Jersey ousted its incumbent governor. Virginia, a state Barack Obama turned "blue" last year, repainted the governor's mansion "red."
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Updated: November/06/2009
Minneapolis player joins casino venture
The world champion poker player behind last year's failed proposal for a single casino resort in southwest Ohio quietly came to the table this year as a new plan for four casinos was embraced by voters.
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Updated: November/05/2009
11th woman discovered in Cleveland death house
The number of women found dead in the home of a convicted sex offender rose to 11 Wednesday as police announced their first identification of one of the victims.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Michigan social workers fear threats over delays
Michigan social workers struggling with mounting welfare, food stamp, and Medicaid caseloads said Wednesday they fear for their lives after being assaulted or threatened by recipients frustrated by delays in state aid.
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Updated: November/05/2009
30 Ohio library levies pass
Voters in a number of Ohio communities came to the aid of public libraries that have been cutting hours and staff because of state budget cuts.
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Updated: November/04/2009
Vegas-style casinos come up a winner
COLUMBUS - Whether because of Lady Luck, the big bucks spent, or a recession-weary electorate, Ohio voters said yesterday they're ready to roll the dice with Las Vegas-style casino gambling.
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Updated: November/04/2009
Police in Cleveland search for more bodies
CLEVELAND — Police are expanding their search of a convicted rapist’s neighborhood and his neatly kept home, where 10 bodies have been found in the basement, buried in the backyard, in an upstairs living room and in a crawl space.
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