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  • Lancaster Police Investigate 2 Child Enticement Cases

    Police in Lancaster are investigating two reports of possible child enticements, according to The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.On Saturday, three girls reported that they were approached by a man in a vehicle at the intersection of Reese Avenue and Mithoff Drive around 7 p.m.The girls said the man was touching himself inappropriately and told them to get into his vehicle. He left the area after the ...

  • Groveport Police Chief Accidentally Fires Gun

    The Groveport Police Department said its chief recently served a three-day working suspension after accidentally discharging his firearm.A department spokesperson said Chief Ralph Portier was removing his police-issued Glock Model 23 firearm from his duty holster to replace it with a training weapon when his firearm discharged. The incident happened on May 14.The bullet entered the rear window ...

  • Raburn relishing platoon role for Tribe

    Email CLEVELAND -- Ryan Raburn knows he's not going to play every day. And he's OK with that. Raburn, 32, signed with the Indians in January after spending his entire career in the Tigers organization. He said he was aware his new role would not involve a regular spot in the lineup when he signed with a division rival. "It's going great," Raburn said. "It's ...

  • No end in sight to Marsons injury problems

    Email CLEVELAND -- Injuries are putting a damper on catcher Lou Marson's season, as the catcher has been restricted to only three games for the Indians in 2013. First, it was a neck strain that landed Marson on the 15-day disabled list. And now he's on it again -- this time with right shoulder inflammation. He's participating in a throwing program, but has "no clue" ...

  • Brantley gets tips from dad a former big leaguer

    Email CLEVELAND -- After Michael Brantley smoked a 93 mph pitch from Seattle ace Felix Hernandez for a three-run homer in Sunday's 6-0 win, he rounded the bases, high-fived his teammates and pointed to somebody in the stands. That person was his father, former Major Leaguer Mickey Brantley. The elder Brantley played outfield for the Mariners from 1986-89 and came to Cleveland to help his ...

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The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità) [Blu-Ray]

The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verità) [Blu-Ray]

Part rise-and-fall melodrama and part documentary about the culture of bullfighting, The Moment of Truth (Il momento della verit) was Italian director Francesco Rosis first film made outside his native Italy although it bears his neorealist political and aesthetic ... ...

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  • Mich. man dies in traffic crash day after wedding

    CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- A newly married Detroit-area youth minister has died in a traffic crash in Ohio while he and his wife were on the way to their ...

  • OH bill would make more government meetings public

    DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A proposal in the Ohio Senate prompting concern from some public officials would make more meetings among government officials public and provide more details on government talks behind closed ...

  • Ohio Indiana Struggle with Impact of Opioids on Injured Workers

    Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp In the Midwest the multitude of jobs in the automotive and agriculture industries highlights the importance of the working American and the need for workplace safety. But the area's numerous industrial type jobs may be lending themselves to the opioid abuse problem. Ohio Ohio has been battling a wide-spread prescription drug abuse problem for ...

  • Ohio University Band Gives Vatican Taste Of America

    VATICAN CITY, May 10 (CNA/EWTN News) .- Priests and Vatican employees opened their office windows this afternoon to find out why they were hearing trumpets and drums, and in the piazza below them they discovered the University of Ohio marching band."We thought it would be a very epic way to perform, you know. And a lot of people came to watch us," 22-year-old trumpet player Jenna Smith ...

  • Majority of Cincinnatis poor live in suburbs

    More than 71 percent of Greater Cincinnati's poor population is located in the suburbs. Nearly 72 percent of Greater Cincinnatis residents living in poverty are located in the suburbs, according to a report and book by the Brookings Institution released today. The study says there were 298,746 poor people living in the region in 2011. Of those people, 214,188 were living in the suburbs. That ...

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