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Wind energy developers fan across northwest Ohio
CLEVELAND (AP) - Jon Berry has spent much of his life bracing against the wind.
It blows especially hard where he lives, on top of a modest ridge in Champaign County, not far northwest of Columbus. It races unobstructed out of the southwest, across fields of corn and soybeans, before climbing the ridge to Berry's two-story white farmhouse.
“It takes your breath away in the winter,” said Berry, who farms about 175 acres when he's not selling tractors, seed corn and farm insurance in nearby Mechanicsburg.
But his days of cursing the wind may soon be over.
The 48-year-old farmer has signed a contract with a wind energy developer in Chicago. The company wants to build up to three giant turbines on his land. Plans aren't firm and construction would still be a couple of years away, but if the rotors are erected, it could net Berry about $30,000 a year.
Like the oilmen who invaded Texas at the beginning of the 20th century, wind energy developers have been scouring Ohio for the best places to erect turbines and create electricity.
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 Ohio woman finds skull while planting potatoes
OSNABURG TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) - Officials say a northeast Ohio woman planting potatoes turned up pieces of a human skull.
Stark County Coroner Dr. P.S. Murthy says the jawbone is old and not related to any recent crimes.
The Ohio Genealogical Society says the bones might be part of a family's nearby cemetery plot. They say there once was a small family cemetery about a mile south of Cathy Clouston's home.
Clouston says she found a tombstone in November that belonged to a 6-year-old girl who died in 1847. But the coroner says the new jawbone belongs to a teenager.
Officials are asking a Kent State anthropologist to help investigate.
Osnaburg Township is about five miles east of Canton.
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Ohio station sells out after posting $3.66-a-gallon price
CINCINNATI (AP) - Gas pumps went dry for several hours at a Cincinnati station that had been jammed with customers hurrying to take advantage of the relatively low price of $3.66 for a gallon of unleaded.
Shonda Coughman says she rushed to the Thornton's station in the city's Bond Hill neighborhood Tuesday afternoon after getting a phone call about the bargain from her mother.
Most of the other stations in Cincinnati are selling unleaded at close to $4 a gallon.
Delores Calloway tried to get in line for gas, but gave up when she saw the station's long lines. She says she tried again during the evening rush hour, and made it to a pump just as the station ran out of gas.
The station refilled and was back to selling gas later Tuesday night, but the price is now up to $3.94 a gallon.
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| TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008 |
Court orders man to jail when daughter fails to get diploma
CINCINNATI (AP) - A man ordered to stay on top of his daughter's education months ago is in a Cincinnati-area jail because the daughter didn't get her high school equivalency diploma. The daughter - now 18 - says her father shouldn't be punished for her behavior.
Judge David Niehaus of Butler County Juvenile Court sentenced Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, last Wednesday to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor. He was ordered months ago to make sure his daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received her GED, but she has not yet obtained the diploma.
Brittany Gegner said Monday that she is studying and plans to take a required test this month after failing an earlier pre-test in math. She said her father shouldn't be blamed because she lived with her mother when she was truant from classes even though her father had custody.
"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, who is living with her fiancee and 18-month-old daughter at her mother's home in nearby Hamilton. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."
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In Cleveland, mob of up to 15 fatally beats a man
CLEVELAND (AP) - Even by tough, urban crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.
By the time Charles Gooden Jr., 41, took his final steps, the crime-hardened neighborhood had awakened and two people, talking in matter-of-fact tones, reported a man down, his clothes being dragged off.
"You got a male being assaulted by 15 other guys. He's laying on the street," one 911 caller said.
It happened before dawn on April 27 on a street within a 10-minute drive of the city's skyscrapers, sports venues and tourist attractions, but across a chasm of poverty and crime in the most murder-ridden neighborhood in one of America's poorest cities.
Latangia Anderson, 23, Johnny Brown, 20, and Paris Moore, 19, all of Cleveland, have been charged with aggravated murder and each pleaded not guilty Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Bond was set at $1 million for each.
The defendants said they were unable to afford an attorney and had lawyers appointed to represent them. The attorneys said they couldn't comment on the case.
Police expect more arrests.
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| MONDAY MAY 12, 2008 |
Like pres. race, Ohio A.G. scandal divides Dems
COLUMBUS (AP) - The Ohio standoff between Gov. Ted Strickland and company against Attorney General Marc Dann ought to appear to followers of this year's contentious Democratic presidential primary as just more of the same.
It is Democrats vs. Democrats, as is the to-the-bitter-end contest between presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
It features one underdog who refuses to budge.
And it looks like it is going to last a while.
"There is a similarity in that a prominent Democratic politician refuses to bow to the inevitable as seen by other Democrats," said John Green, director of the University of Akron's Bliss Institute for Applied Politics.
At the national level, Clinton continues to fight back suggestions that her defeat for the Democratic nomination is assured and she needs to bow out gracefully. Even after Tuesday's primaries in North Carolina and Indiana gave another boost to Obama's long-standing lead among convention delegates, Clinton pledged to push ahead.
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Tiger reaches past barrier, injures Toledo Zoo official
TOLEDO (AP) - The Toledo Zoo says a tiger reached through a double mesh barrier and injured a zookeeper, sending the keeper to the hospital with three lacerations to the chest.
Zoo officials say the employee was doing normal rounds at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday and was in an area where he had worked before without any problems.
The zoo says one its two female tigers was somehow able to get a paw through the mesh at an odd angle. The keeper was treated and released at a local hospital.
The Zoo was not open at the time of the incident. Spokeswoman Andi Norman said officials are reviewing whether the zoo needs to make changes to the tiger exhibit.
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