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Family found dead in Ohio home
Man gets 3 years in prison for having sex with horse
Brown still testing Cavs' lineup
Take comfort in knowing Browns could be bigger losers
Kosar would be wrong call as GM
Sex-toy study at Duke University raises some eyebrows
Akron man turns himself in after authorities turn up heat
Robbers order bar patrons to empty pockets
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Tribe makes roster moves
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Lewis doesn't like boycott
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Kent State falls to Akron, 20-28
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Gameblog: Cavs at Knicks
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Wrestling, bowling teams prepare for season
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If It Looks Like Islamic Terrorism…
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Dems Message To Women: Don't Enjoy The Sex
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Health Care Financing Reform: (62) The Stupak Amendment
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Muffle Your Muffler
Car Chase:
Perfect Weather for an Autumn Drive
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RUMORS: Downtown Restaurant Explosion
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Jack is looking for a trip to Southern Ohio the week of November 16.
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The Black Keys to perform benefit concert at Musica on November 27
HRLite House:
Personal Rant – Why People Do Not Live in Northeast Ohio
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New 'Call of Duty' could set entertainment record
Laura Ofobike
First rule of good citizenship
It helps to understand how good we have it
We are going to be up to our eyeballs in dead leaves for a good while, it looks like. We got used to two leaf pickups in Akron. Then the economy did a number on us, revenues took a dive, city leaders saw red all over the books and decided one leaf pickup would be good and plenty this fall. The estimate is that the cutback will save the city anywhere from $200,000 to $250,000.
Safe passage to equal status
Old attitudes still weigh down women and girls
Something about Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir and Mrs. Bandaranaike fascinated me as a teenager. My ears perked up when their names came over the radio. I read what the papers said about them. It wasn't that their names fell softly on the ear, like music. It wasn't a fascination with their politics either (of which I had no clue and little interest then).
Scrambling for sustainable education
Ohio's budget reversals set back efforts to improve
Ohio's education budget for 2010 and 2011 practically crumbled in September because it was leaning on chance. The plan, as Gov. Ted Strickland and the General Assembly conceived it, was that the Ohio Lottery would expand to include thousands of slot machines at seven horse racetracks. The machines would attract gamblers, the gamblers would drop approximately $933 million into state coffers, the state would redirect an estimated $851 million to the public schools, and the schools would go about leaving no student behind.
The shouting's over. Now, to the problem
What happens to Americans without insurance?
The health-care debate has moved indoors, so to speak. The town hall phase was diversionary. It took us through the hot-button patches — the granny, abortion and illegal immigrant fears and the commies-at-the-gate stuff. With the Senate bearing down to complete its legislation, we come face to face again with the unglamorous question at the center of the national debate: What to do about the uninsured, the people (46 million and counting) the system has left behind, the Americans who live fearful of the wreck a broken leg, a lab test or some minor surgery might make of their finances.
In hard times, it pays to break cycle of crime
Diversion programs help halt a downward slide
Recessions are scary things, the scariest, perhaps, being those things that ''Everybody knows.'' Doesn't Everybody know, for example, that crime goes up when the economy takes a dive? People lose their jobs, and money gets tight. Stresses mount; tempers fray; violence rises. Desperate people cut legal corners, commiting opportunistic crimes. . . .
Hard to fix health care without trust, respect
A summer of battering legislators has made task harder
There's a class of Americans who must be the most wicked people on the face of the Earth. Not only that, they must also be among the most obtuse ever to grace this planet.
