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  • Protesters chant Stop the IRS in Cincinnati

    CINCINNATI -; Tea party activists have rallied outside the federal building in Cincinnati waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting "Stop the ...

  • Ohio Officials Identify 70 MPH Speed Zones

    The Ohio Department of Transportation has released a map identifying highways that will change to have 70 mile per hour speed limits this summer.The green light for the change is being given to 570 miles of Ohio roadways.The state transportation budget bill allowed the change to 70 MPH for interstates that are "outside urbanized areas." The changes will go into effect on July ...

  • Central Ohio Hopes State Tax Incentives Will Add Jobs

    Central Ohio hopes to gain 788 jobs from state tax incentives offered yesterday, including those for one company's project to add 120 jobs in Columbus as part of a $1.2 million expansion tied to the commercial-vehicle market. The project for Proform Industries was one of 10 approved by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority at yesterday's meeting. The projects would add 1,108 jobs and ...

  • St. Vincent de Paul helping in Oklahoma

    The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is asking for help in bringing relief to the residents of Moore, Okla., following the devastation of ...

  • Ohio Internet cafe crackdown advancing

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State lawmakers in Ohio are moving fast on proposals cracking down on storefront sweepstakes parlors whose legality has been ...

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Halloween (2007)

Halloween (2007)

In yet another needless retread of a classic '70s American horror movie, rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie's prequel-cum-remake of John Carpenter's Halloween does its best to distort everything that worked in the original in its bid for improvement. Where Carpenter's ... ...

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  • Ohio kidnapping suspects 3 dogs go to foster care

    They'll be in foster care until the women - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight - decide whether they want to take the pets into their ...

  • Falcon chick Zoom banded atop Ohio high-rise

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State wildlife officials have examined and banded the first peregrine falcon chick in three years to be hatched atop the Rhodes Tower in downtown Columbus - and it's a ...

  • Former IRS chief Cant say how targeting happened

    former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (AP Photo/Charles ...

  • Franklin County Officials Installing More Tornado Sirens

    It is pure coincidence, but the Franklin County Emergency Management Agency said it is going to start installing tornado sirens throughout Franklin County on May 21. Fourteen warning sirens will be installed by the end of the month. The tornado that struck in Moore, Oklahoma hit home for local parents taking their kids to school. "I think it’s every three or six months ...

  • Officer Released From Hospital After Being Hit By Suspects Vehicle

    A Danville police officer who was injured trying to deploy stop sticks to end a chase this weekend has been released from the hospital.Officer Chad Lishness was hit by a suspect's vehicle Sunday morning on Coshocton Road in Mount Vernon.The police said Lishness was knocked 60 feet before he landed on the roadway. They said his bullet proof vest absorbed much of the impact from the ...

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