Thursday, June 9, 2016

Ohio State had reason to participate in New Jersey satellite camp ... and other top stories.

  • Ohio State had reason to participate in New Jersey satellite camp ...

    MADISON, N.J. -- Maybe the private jet was worth it.  Maybe Ohio State's decision to send Urban Meyer, assistant coaches Ed Warinner, Larry Johnson, Luke Fickell, Greg Schiano and player personnel director Mark Pantoni to New Jersey for seven hours on Wednesday evening was worth it.  Maybe all the money Ohio State spent so it could participate in a New Jersey satellite camp hosted by Rutgers was worth it.  When Meyer stood up in front of 1,200 campers on the practice field at Fairleigh Dickins..
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  • Former Ohio State football star Beanie Wells testifies of fear from ...

    Former Ohio State football star Beanie Wells testifies of fear from ...
    Franklin ConleySummit County Sheriff's Office  AKRON, Ohio — Former Ohio State football player Beanie Wells took the stand Wednesday to testify against an Akron man charged with trying to extort money from him after a botched drug deal. The former running back used part of his several hours on the stand to deny an assertion made by the defendant's attorney that he was also tied up in drug dealing. Wells, 27, testified that he was scared of the threats that Franklin Conley made against him an..
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  • Police identify man killed, 2 injured in carryout shooting

    Police identify man killed, 2 injured in carryout shooting
    A man was killed and two other men wounded Wednesday morning when gunfire broke out at an East 5th Avenue carryout.Police identified the person who died as Tommie Earl Brown, 21, of Parkwood Avenue in North Linden.In addition, Kris V. Pace, 23, of Whitehall, was in critical but stable condition at Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University. He was taken to the hospital from the Quick Stop carryout by paramedics.And a short time after the shooting, William E. Brown, 24, walked into Ohio Stat..
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  • Columbus City Council to consider harassment at women's health ...

    Columbus City Council to consider harassment at women's health ...
    An ordinance introduced on the Columbus City Council floor Monday has sparked a First Amendment debate by anti-abortion activists. The ordinance aims to protect health-care workers and patients at reproductive health-care facilities. It would ban a person from harassing and following an individual within 15 feet of the premises and prohibit that person from doing anything within 15 feet of the facility that could cause an individual to be fearful of physical harm. The ordinance also would prohi..
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  • Columbus lobbyist sentenced to 15 months in prison for role in traffic ...

    Columbus lobbyist sentenced to 15 months in prison for role in traffic ...
    COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus lobbyist was sentenced Wednesday to a year and three months in federal prison for his role in helping to bribe officials in Cincinnati and the state capital to win or keep red-light camera contracts. John Raphael pleaded guilty in October to interference with commerce by threat or violence. U.S. District Judge Michael Watson handed down the sentence during a hearing in federal court in Columbus. Raphael, 61, is the second person who has pleaded guilty in connectio..
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  • Gov. Kasich signs Ohio's medical marijuana bill into law

    Gov. Kasich signs Ohio's medical marijuana bill into law
    A bill authorizing physicians to prescribe marijuana derivatives to treat a host of health conditions was signed into law this afternoon by Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The second-term Republican had expressed support for the concept, but his office had not said whether he would sign the hard-won legislation until he studied its details. He signed the bill within a couple of hours of it landing on his desk. The bill passed the Republican-controlled General Assembly — by a 18-15 vote in the Senate an..
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  • Bicyclists bonded as 'Chain Gang' before crash that killed 5

    Bicyclists bonded as 'Chain Gang' before crash that killed 5
    COOPER TOWNSHIP, Mich. — They called themselves "The Chain Gang" — a group of bicyclists drawn together by zest for their sport, physical fitness and love of the outdoors whose day trip in the southwestern Michigan countryside ended tragically as a pickup truck plowed into them, killing five and injuring four others. Stunned bicycling enthusiasts joined relatives and friends of the riders Wednesday in mourning them — leaving flowers, a commemorative "ghost bike" and a small wooden cross at the ..
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  • Prospect Avenue will be closed to traffic, but outside secure ...

    Prospect Avenue will be closed to traffic, but outside secure ...
    CLEVELAND, Ohio — The area of Prospect Avenue near Quicken Loans Arena will be pedestrian-only, but still open to the general public during the Republican National Convention, a Secret Service official who is heading up security planning for the July event said Wednesday. "Those businesses [from Prospect] to East 4th Street are going to be open," Ron Rowe, the Secret Service's RNC coordinator, told members of City Council's public safety committee. "There certainly will be an increased police ..
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  • McGraw, Underwood win big at CMT Music Awards

    McGraw, Underwood win big at CMT Music Awards
    Tim McGraw ended Carrie Underwood's four-year-winning streak for the top prize at the 2016 CMT Music Awards with his music video for "Humble and Kind" — which features footage provided by Oprah Winfrey — while stars from outside the country music world performed onstage, including Pharrell, Cheap Trick and Pitbull. McGraw thanked Winfrey, Tyler Perry, video director Wes Edwards and others onstage Wednesday night at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. "When we make a footprint as an artis..
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  • Sen. Sherrod Brown still likes Bernie Sanders, even if Sanders is ...

    Sen. Sherrod Brown still likes Bernie Sanders, even if Sanders is ...
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the all-but-vanquished presidential candidate and progressive champion, is ticked off. Not only is he angry about the way the Democratic primary process played out, with Hillary Clinton certain to be the party's nominee. Sanders is also mad at some people who helped Clinton win, including Ohio's Sherrod Brown. Brown, like Sanders, is a progressive in the U.S. Senate. They have been allies. And Sanders apparently felt betrayed by Brown's decision to back ..
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