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  • Mayors brother hurt in Ohio drag racing accident

    A Cleveland School District spokeswoman tells The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer ((bit.ly/14HfJ86) that Nick Jackson, deputy chief of business operations for Cleveland's schools, was hurt after a wreck during practice runs Saturday at Thompson Raceway Park in ...

  • Columbus Firefighters Recovering From Acid Burns

    Three Columbus firefighters were recovering from acid burns on Sunday after their firehouse was affected by a power outage. They were working on a generator at Fire Station 22 at 3069 Parsons Ave. when they were somehow splashed by battery acid. Two of them were treated by paramedics at the station. A third firefighter was taken to Grant Medical Center with what were described by Battalion ...

  • Police in NE Ohio report black bear sightings

    YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Police in a northeast Ohio community report a number of black bear sightings. Police in Liberty Township near Youngstown say they have received several calls regarding bears in the area in recent days. According to The (Youngstown) Vindicator (bit.ly/13w41L2), the police department Web page warns residents to remain calm if they see a bear. It says black bears ...

  • 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 ...

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Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Dawn of the Dead (1978) [DVD]

Ten years after he reinvented the American horror film with the seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968), George A. Romero returned to his story of the world being taken over by zombies in Dawn of the Dead, a film that is every bit as shocking, inventive, inte ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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