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  • Police Say Man Abandoned Boy At Bar In Short North

    Police were looking for a man Sunday night who they said left his six-year-old son at a Short North bar. Officers were called to Park Street Tavern around 7:30 p.m. by a woman who noticed the child and called 911. Pamela Hall said she and a friend had started following the boy because it looked like he was being made to go from business to business to sell candy bars. Hall said the boy ...

  • Timeline of the Ohio kidnappings Three womens shared nightmare

    By Elizabeth Chuck and Polly DeFrank, NBC News It's a story with a happy ending over a decade in the making. A daring escape and a dramatic 911 call led to the rescue of three women who allegedly had been held captive for years inside a home in Cleveland, Ohio. Below is a timeline of events in the case, from before the women first disappeared to their eventual ...

  • DNA tests confirm Cleveland kidnap suspect is father of girl freed from house

    By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News DNA tests have confirmed that Ariel Castro, the suspect in the kidnapping and decade-long imprisonment of three women in Cleveland, is the father of a 6-year-old girl born to one of the women in captivity, the Ohio attorney general said Friday.Attorney General Mike DeWine also said that Castro’s DNA did not match other unsolved Ohio cases. He said ...

  • Brady reunion brings memories to Kings Island

    Greg Brady sings "I'm Greg Brady" to the tune of "...: Greg Brady raps. "I'm Greg Brady" to the tune of "The Real Slim Shady." Mind blown. Johnny Bravo ...

  • Streaking Tribe eyes four-game sweep behind Kazmir

    The Indians are 7-1 against Cy Young Award winners this season. They don't seem to care which opposing pitcher toes the rubber or whether they tote any hardware. At 17-4 over their last 21 contests, the Indians are enjoying their best stretch since September 2007, a month before they came within one win of a World Series ticket. "We don't look in the past. We don't look in ...

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Hostel Part II [DVD]

Hostel Part II [DVD]

In Hostel (2006), writer/director Eli Roth reworked the broad parameters of the cautionary fairy tale into a grisly horror meatgrinder, one of the best of the recent glut of so called torture porn. What set Roth's film apart from so many others was its hard-edged moral backbone--th ... ...

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  • Cueto set to make return in opener vs. Mets

    After more than a month on the disabled list, Reds ace Johnny Cueto will make his return to the mound on Monday against the Mets at Citi Field. It will be the right-hander's first Major League start since April 13, when he left the game in the fifth inning and hit the DL with a strained right lat two days later. "I'm happy," Cueto said through translator Tomas Vera. ...

  • Tornadoes Hit Oklahoma And Kansas

    Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City. There were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage Sunday evening. Sedgwick County, Kan., emergency management director Randy Duncan says officials are "very grateful" about the few reports of damage from the tornado that touched down near Wichita Mid-Continent Airport shortly ...

  • Mariners do little right in 6-0 loss to Cleveland

    CLEVELAND — One inning into this disaster, it was apparent the Mariners didn't have much of a chance. They'd already been owned by Cleveland Indians ace Justin Masterson in the top half of the frame, then spent the bottom part forgetting the basics in the field en route to two quick runs by the home side. By the time this 6-0 defeat was in the books, Felix Hernandez and the ...

  • Sharefax raises money for Childrens Hospital

    Sharefax Credit Union employees and customers raised more than $7,800 for Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center during the 2013 Marching Miles for Miracle Kids. From left in front are: Jessica McDaniel, Beth Fawcett, Colleen Fite, Nadia Shurkhay and Stacy Wene. Back row: Gina Patt, Pat Wohlfrom, Susan Presnell and Bev Havens. / Thanks to Jessica ...

  • Cleveland celebrates Supermans humble beginnings

    CLEVELAND - The tough, blue-collar roots of Superman's creators are getting a fresh look on the superhero's 75th anniversary. Creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster lived just a few blocks apart in the Cleveland neighborhood that shaped their teenage lives, their dreams and the imagery of the Man of Steel. In the city's Glenville neighborhood, still in the throttling grip of the ...

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