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Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands. Aimee Copeland, 25, is returning from Hilliard, Ohio, where she was fitted with a pair of "bionic" ...
Ohio governor to alert families to execution mercy
In the future Ohio Gov. John Kasich will call family members of murder victims when he decides to spare the lives of death row inmates, the governor's office said Friday. Kasich's decision followed a meeting earlier this week with relatives of a homicide victim upset by the governor's decision to ...
Ohio AG certifies medical marijuana petition
A proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio has cleared an initial step to get before voters. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine certified a summary of the proposal on Friday and said the submission contained the 1,000 valid signatures required for the effort to move forward. A group ...
Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the ...
Log: Cleveland suspect passes time pacing, staring
A man accused of imprisoning three women in his Cleveland home for a decade spends most of his time in jail resting or asleep, with breaks for pacing, showers and cell cleaning. New jail logs released Friday also document defendant Ariel Castro thanking a guard for bringing him breakfast and ...
Ohio police: Cousin takes baby, stabs it to death
A 19-year-old man wrestled an 11-week-old baby away from relatives and stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife, police said. Denzel Castile, 19, was charged with aggravated murder Friday and was on suicide watch in a northern Ohio jail. Investigators said Castile is the little girl's cousin, but they ...
17-year-old charged in deaths of Ohio brothers
A 17-year-old who told authorities last week where they could find the bodies of two teenage brothers has been charged in their deaths, and prosecutors want to try him as an adult. The aggravated murder charges announced Friday against Michael Fay came just over a week after he and the ...
Dark clouds hang over air shows after budget cuts
Patty Wagstaff is a Hollywood stunt pilot, three-time U.S. aerobatic champion, inductee to the National Aviation Hall of Fame and favorite on the air show circuit. One of her tricked-out planes is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. But this weekend, she's grounded. Federal budget cuts ...
Guilty plea for Ohio man for Obama Twitter threat
A Columbus man has pleaded guilty to threatening President Barack Obama on Twitter and now faces up to five years in prison. A complaint filed by the U.S. Secret Service in federal court in Columbus said threatening tweets by Daniel Temple from March included the president's name and phrases such ...
Correction: Retailers-Bangladesh story
In a story May 15 about retailers' reactions to a proposal aimed at making garment factories safer in Bangladesh, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Gap wouldn't sign on unless it would be free of any legal liability. In fact, Gap was objecting to facing unlimited legal liability. The company ...
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