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  • EPA official Ohio fracking study wont be done until 2016

    A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won't be completed until 2016. Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research at the EPA's Office of Research and Development, spoke Tuesday at a conference in Cleveland. The Akron Beacon Journal reports that Briskin said the EPA could release a ...

  • Columbus Bomb Squad Responds To Hocking County Plant Where Box With Threat Was Found

    A Hocking County Plant was evacuated Wednesday morning after a threat was found.According to the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office, officials were responding to the threat at the Rocky Boots Warehouse, located on state Route 595 and Rocky Boots Way.Columbus Bomb Squad officials were on scene in addition to the sheriff’s office and fire officials. The Logan Daily News reported that the ...

  • Authorities Search For Alleged Copper Thief With History Of Public Indecency

    A man with three warrants out for his arrest is this week’s "fugitive of the week" out of the Columbus City Attorney’s Office.According to the attorney’s office, Tommy Allen Craft is wanted for violating his probation on assault and domestic violence charges and a separate public indecency conviction.He also is wanted for failing to appear in court to answer theft ...

  • Stolen City Van Overturns Closing I-70 East Near Brice Road

    Police shut down Interstate 70 eastbound on the east side Wednesday morning because of a rollover crash. According to 10TV News crews on the scene, a van with a City of Columbus license plate that read Columbus Water Operations overturned on the highway at about 10 a.m. Police confirmed that the city vehicle was stolen and then crashed. The vehicle was stolen from a "station," but ...

  • Woman And Child Used As Slaves In Ohio

    A mentally disabled woman and her child were allegedly kept as slaves by three people who threatened them with snakes and a pit bull dog. The woman and child, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation have not named, were held for many months in a basement in Ashland, Ohio. Ashland is just 60 miles south of Cleveland, where three missing women who had themselves allegedly been held captive ...

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In the Heat of the Night [DVD]

In the Heat of the Night [DVD]

Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night was released in 1967, the height of the Civil Rights movement and one of the most violent years in modern American history (between 1967 and 1968, there were 384 riots in 298 different cities, including the most infamous in Detroit and Newark). As the film is both a mystery-detective story and a socially conscious exploration of the relations b ... ...

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  • Stepped-up patrols at OH complex after rape report

    FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) -- Southwest Ohio authorities are stepping up security in the area of an apartment complex with student residents, following a reported ...

  • Court to hear fee debate in Cleveland killings

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to decide a debate over fees paid to attorneys of a Cleveland man who killed 11 ...

  • Man accused of kidnapping Cleveland women to face more charges

    1 of 2. Ariel Castro (R), 52, enters the court room for a pre-trial hearing on charges including rape, kidnapping and murder in Cleveland, Ohio June 19, ...

  • Trial date set for Cleveland man accused of imprisoning 3 women

    A tentative Aug. 4 trial date has been set for an Ohio man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home for about a decade. Ariel Castro, with his wrists and ankles shackled, appeared in court in Cleveland for a brief hearing Wednesday. As in previous court appearances, he kept his chin tucked in his chest. He answered "yes" and "no" to the judge's ...

  • Judge sets Aug. trial date for Ohio kidnapping suspect

    A tentative Aug. 4 trial date has been set for an Ohio man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home for about a decade. Ariel Castro, with his wrists and ankles shackled, appeared in court in Cleveland for a brief hearing Wednesday. As in previous court appearances, he kept his chin tucked in his chest. He answered "yes" and "no" to the judge's ...

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