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Man gets 28 yrs. for getting 10-year-old pregnant CINCINNATI (AP) -- A Cincinnati man who admitted he began having sex with his girlfriend's daughter when she was 10 and impregnated her has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. Forty-one-year-old Michael Chaffer pleaded guilty to charges of fel ...
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Ohio coroner: girl at treatment center suffocated CLEVELAND (AP) -- A disruptive girl who died last month while being restrained by staff members at a church-run treatment center suffocated and choked, the coroner said Monday in ruling the death a homicide. Faith Finley, 17, of Barberton, died ...
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Ohio man arrested in slaying of 4-year-old's mom By JAMES HANNAH Associated Press Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities were trying to determine the motive for the fatal shooting of a young mother and abduction of her 4-year-old son, and investigators appeared to be focusing on the theft of ...
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Ohio man admits to plotting wife's murder JACKSON, Ohio (AP) -- A 74-year-old southern Ohio man has pleaded guilty to hiring someone to kill his wife in their farmhouse last spring. David Evans Sr. of Jackson pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and conspiracy to comm ...
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New Ohio speaker wants tax breaks for startups By STEPHEN MAJORS Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State lawmakers will consider tax breaks for entrepreneurs, free broadband service for cities and other programs as they tackle Ohio's mounting economic problems, the first Democrat ...
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Police: 4-year-old Ohio boy shoots babysitter JACKSON, Ohio (AP) -- Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on the child's foot. Police say 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young chil ...
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Ohio girl accused of stabbing male schoolmate GREEN CAMP, Ohio (AP) -- Authorities in rural central Ohio accuse a 13-year girl of repeatedly stabbing a 14-year-old boy outside their Marion County middle school. Chief sheriff's Deputy Al Hayden says the boy was stabbed several times in the upper ...
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Sheriff: Man arrested in Ohio mother's slaying By JAMES HANNAH Associated Press Writer DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A 22-year-old man was arrested in the shooting death of a woman whose 4-year son was abducted and left unharmed at a highway rest area, authorities said Monday. Charlie W. Myers of Co ...
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Fire near Bowling Green campus damages apartments BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- Several college students escaped a fire that damaged an apartment building near Bowling Green State University. The fire broke out Monday morning in the three-story building near the northwest Ohio campus. Many stud ...
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3 quizzed in Ohio slaying; boy found at rest stop DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- The FBI questioned three men in the fatal shooting of an Ohio woman whose 4-year-old son was left unharmed by the gunman at a highway rest area. FBI Special Agent Harry Trombitas told The Columbus Dispatch late Sunday that t ...
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Researchers focus on bringing missing bees back By GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press Writer STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Scientists in the field and the lab are trying to solve a mystery critical to the future of American agriculture: Why are honeybee hives failing at a disturbingly high rate? ...
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Strickland poised to sign human trafficking bill
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Crimes such as kidnapping that aid human trafficking would be punished more severely under a bill Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign this week. The bill would create a new "human trafficking" specification that prosecutors could attach to related crimes to increase pri ...
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