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Former Coast Guard cutter Storis up for auction
The federal government is putting a former Coast Guard cutter up for auction after efforts to send it to a museum in Juneau failed. The cutter Storis was listed for auction last week on the General Services Commission website at an opening bid of $60,000, KMXT reported (http://is.gd/dZIdmj ). "Well ...
Editorials from around Ohio
Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from Ohio newspapers: The (Toledo) Blade, June 17 There's good and bad news in college Republicans' report to GOP leaders on the party's shellacking in the 2012 election. Trying to understand how President Obama amassed a 5-million-vote margin over Mitt Romney ...
IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases
An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action. Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division ...
Strasburg looks good in return, but Nats lose 2-0
Pretty much everything about Stephen Strasburg's return from the disabled list went well except the result. Washington's ace right-hander allowed one run and one hit in five innings, but the Nationals' offense did nothing to support him in Sunday's 2-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians. "I felt really good and ...
Facts on Ohio veterans bonus benefits, rules
Some facts on Ohio bonuses for veterans for service during eras of Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. — Eligible veterans may receive $100 for each month spent on active duty in the compensated periods up to a maximum $1,000 for service in specified war zones. — Eligible veterans on ...
Ohio veterans running out of time for bonuses
Time is running out for eligible military veterans to claim Ohio bonuses of up to $1,500, and officials are worried that thousands of veterans may miss out by not applying. Navy veteran Robert Erb III describes his bonus for service in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan war eras as a ...
Men wrongly convicted or arrested on bite evidence
At least 24 men convicted or arrested based largely on murky bite-mark evidence have been exonerated by DNA testing, had charges dropped or otherwise been proved not guilty. Many spent more than a decade in prison, and one man was behind bars for more than 23 years before he was ...
AP IMPACT: Bites derided as unreliable in court
At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge's ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for ...
Solar-powered plane lands near Washington
A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May. Solar Impulse's website said the aircraft with its massive wings and thousands of photovoltaic ...
Divers begin Lake Michigan search for Griffin ship
Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle. U.S. and French archaeologists examined sediment removed from a hole dug near a ...
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