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Storm clouds threatened again Thursday, but no big rain came to dampen enthusiasm at the county fair.

Seventy-four students will graduate from the Marion County Jobs for Ohio's Graduates school-to-work transition program next week, said instructor Karlotta Collins.

Police issue an arrest warrant for a homeless man in connection with a fire at a new downtown Cincinnati restaurant.

Don't be surprised if the future Dr. Keely Telquist mentions Dr. Scott Kaple frequently in her conversations.

Don't be surprised if the future Dr. Keely Telquist mentions Dr. Scott Kaple frequently in her conversations.

Starting Monday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol invites the public to offer comments as part of a public call-in session during the Patrol's re-accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law ...

In the United States, an average of 62 people are killed each year by lightning.

NORWALK -- Jacqueline Henry Roscoe, 83, died Sunday, July 6, 2008, in Norwalk Memorial Home.

Troopers from six Ohio Highway Patrol posts descended on The Ohio State University-Mansfield and North Central State College on Monday afternoon in search of an "active shooter" inside Eisenhower Center.

COLLINS, Ohio -- A woman died when lightning struck her and her husband after a thunderstorm in northern Ohio.

CLEVELAND -- Police continued to search today for a group of teenagers who beat a homeless man to death on a street as passersby slowed to watch.

Advocates for the homeless introduced new information today about families vulnerable to being left without a place to live.

VANDALISM At 3:28 p.m. Saturday, a man in the 3000 block of Buchanan Road in Ballville Township, reported his mailbox was shot with paintballs. via News-Messenger

COLUMBUS -- Trooper Ricky L. Vitte Jr. of the Fremont Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol was promoted to the rank of sergeant Monday by Col. via News-Messenger

“This incident has tarnished the reputation of a great law enforcement agency”

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has recommended the dismissal of an Ohio State Highway patrol trooper and a sergeant for their involvement in a prank where the trooper dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan-like outfit and ... via Toledo Blade

“Dr. Collins' reputation as a principled leader of the Human Genome Project and the understanding that the Human Genome Project holds enormous potential for the improvement of humankind, make him an ideal recipient of the first Inamori Ethics Prize”

Dr. Francis S. Collins, the leader of the Human Genome Project, is the recipient of the inaugural Inamori Ethics Prize from Case Western Reserve University's International Center for Ethics and Excellence. via Crain's Cleveland Business

“Detroit (police are) not going to look for him unless we've got an arrest warrant”

MARION - Authorities say they may have a motive, but they are getting little cooperation from the community in locating a man wanted for questioning in connection to last week's fatal shooting. via Marion Star

“If your relationship is solid, there isn't any room for jealousy”

Chelsea Mertz, Topeka sophomore, admits to being a really jealous person. After she and her boyfriend broke up, she saw him soon after at a party with another girl. via The University Daily Kansan

“We're looking for Percy still, but we still haven't found him”

MARION - Authorities have no additional information to release in the west-side shooting that left one man dead early Thursday morning. via Marion Star

She was a resident of Brethren Care Village for nine months. Born February 13, 1923, in Oberlin, Ms. via The Chronicle-Telegram