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Clear And Beautiful Thursday Morning

THURSDAY MORNING WEATHER DISCUSSIONDate: June 20 Time: 5.00 Meteorologist: Mike Davis Your Doppler 10 ForecastThis Morning Clear, cool & calm.This Afternoon Sunny and seasonably warm. Mid 80s CalmTonight: Clear and mild. 61 CalmTomorrow: Mostly sunny & warmer. 88 CalmSaturday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance for an isolated showers or storm. 87Special Information: A beautiful day ahead with ...
Injured Man Found In A Ditch In West Columbus

Columbus Police were investigating an injured man who was found in a ditch in west Columbus. Police and medics arrived at the scene on Spindler Road, near Crystal Pond Boulevard, around 11:45 Wednesday night. They also found a woman at the scene who was trying to help the man up. Officials said the man may have tried to jump from a moving vehicle. He was taken to an area hospital in critical ...
Ohio police dept. pays after children handcuffed

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A central Ohio police department is paying $25,000 to settle a lawsuit by the family of a young brother and sister who were handcuffed by officers after a fight on a school ...
Police Use K-9 Unit To Search For Gas Station Burglars

Upper Arlington Police were searching for burglary suspects who broke in to a gas station. Officials said the burglary happened shortly before 3 AM in the 3600 block of Riverside Drive. Police said the burglary alarm went off, and officers arrived at the scene shortly after. Officials believed they heard several suspects running towards a woods when they got on the scene. Police were using a ...
Ohio man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The U.S. secretary of education is traveling to Kentucky and Ohio to promote President Barack Obama’s proposal for a major expansion of early childhood ...

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The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant) [DVD]

The beauty of Claude Berri's debut film, The Two of Us (Le vieil homme et l'enfant), is that it doesn't serve up an obvious lesson at the end. It is a sweet, unadorned story about love and bigotry, and were it to be remade in Hollywood (God forbid), it would surely end with o ... ...

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US education secretary set to visit Kentucky Ohio to push early childhood initiatives

CINCINNATI – An Ohio man found guilty in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter is scheduled to be ...
Youth leagues try to rein in bad news parents

View Photo Associated Press/Martha Irvine - A young batter takes a swing as a father who's a coach supervises at a youth baseball game in Buffalo Grove, Ill. on Monday June 10, 2013. Earlier in the month, park ...
Lawsuit Taser shock was deadly

Attorney Al Gerhardstein is continuing his crusade to reform regional law enforcement agencies' Taser policies. / Enquirer file photo/Gary ...
Springfield Twp. Police Auction July 13

The Springfield Township Police Department is having a public auction at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 13, at the Springfield Township Service Department, 950 Compton ...
Kazmir Tribe ready for opener against Twins

Minnesota wasn't much help to the Indians recently by losing two of three to the American League Central-leading Tigers, so the Indians will look to take care of their own business as they look to continue their march toward the top of the division standings. The Tribe sits 3 1/2 games behind the first-place Tigers with a few weeks before the All-Star break. Left-hander Scott Kazmir (3-4, ...

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TCS holds camp in US for science, maths students

India's leading IT services, Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career paths.

The fifth annual three-day camp providing hands on activities and projects that increase exposure to industry specific technologies, culminated with a competition at TCS' largest North American software delivery centre in Milford, Ohio.

Free for all students, the TCS goIT programme provides in-school IT career awareness workshops and hands-on technology education, according to a media release.

Since its inception, the programme has reached more than 7,000 students across 35 school districts in Ohio and Michigan.

"We believe that TCS is uniquely positioned to use its core IT competencies and technology leadership to address the STEM education issue," said Amar Naga, director of operations, TCS.

"The innovative goIT programme is an outstanding investment by TCS in young Ohioans," said Mark Patton, JobsOhio Managing Director for Information Technology.

By 2018, research shows that STEM occupations are projected to grow by 17 percent, with 71 percent of STEM jobs focused on computing including cloud, data, app and security. ...