Medicaid Benefit Cuts Proposed in Ohio Crisis Plan
Ohio government proposes cost cuts to Medicaid including a 2 percent across the board state spending reduction to fund the program. ADC welfare payments would drop about one dollar per family, possibly reducing eligibility by up to 20,000 recipients.
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Columbus, Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Department of Public Welfare
Raymond McKenna
William W. Wilkins
Welfare
ADC
McKenna
U.S. District Court
Robert M. Duncan
Welfare Agency
Aggrey
Federal Hocking Faces August Payroll Funding Gap
The Federal Hocking School District secured an advance tax draw from the county but says the funds won’t cover two August payrolls. Board President Keith Hanson outlined grim options including partial pay, selective full salaries, or delaying payments while banks are consulted.
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Hocking
Keith Hanson
Logan Police and Sheriff Probe Animal Mutilations
Logan police and Hocking County sheriff are joint investigating a wave of animal mutilations. Investigators describe the cases as unusual patterns and suggest possible cult involvement.
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Logan
Logan Police
Hocking County
Hays Case Probes Persist as Labor on Payroll Charges Continues
Washington lawmakers press on as Rep. Wayne Hays faces continued payroll sex charges probe by a House committee and a federal grand jury. Pepper Tamika Root, a one pound six ounce premature infant, is now at home healthy after months of life-saving care. Thunderstorms and warm, humid conditions forecast with possible heavy downpours tonight and Saturday morning.
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Hays
Washington
Rep
Wayne Hays
House
Page
Columbus
Sentencing Set in Yablonski Slayings Case
Washington County Judge Charles G. Sweet set September 3 for the sentencing of Auburn Buddy Martin Paul Gilly and Claude Vealey in the Yablonski family killings. The judge presided separately over Martin and Gilly trials.
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Washington, Pa
Auburn
Buddy’’ Martin
Paul Gilly
Claude Vealey
Yablonski
Washington County
Charles G. Sweet
Martin
Gilly
No Leads in Bombing of British Ambassador
Irish police say they have no leads to the killers of British Ambassador Christopher Ewart-Biggs despite 13 arrests of IRA suspects. Nobody claimed responsibility for the Wednesday bombing. A government official said the IRA is certain, as police expanded a nationwide dragnet. Three percent of IRA explosives and ammunition were found in a forest near Kilkenny, south of Dublin.
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Dublin
Ireland
Christopher Ewart- Biggs
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Kilkenny
Three Men Sought in Chowchilla Kidnapping Case
National hunt targets Frederick Woods James Schoenfeld and Richard Schoenfeld as suspects in the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping. Deputies seek arrest warrants with possible ransom motive. Investigations focus on vans, a Livermore quarry, and Woods family vehicles and property.
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San Leandro
Calif
California
Chowchilla
Alameda
Madera County
San Francisco Bay Area
Frederick N. Woods
James L. Schoenfeld
Richard A. Schoenfeld
Alameda County
Livermore
Woods
Bates
Houchins
Younger Woods
San Mateo County
John McDonald
Sonora County
San Jose
FBI
Newhall
Henry Mayo Newhall
Saugus
Mass
San Francisco
James Schoenfeld
Woodside High School
Schoenfelds
Peninsula
Downieville
Viking Arm Repair Expected to Fix Mars Lander Glitch
Viking officials say they diagnosed the soil-scooping arm jam on the Mars lander and plan a Sunday cure. If correct, the issue was caused by a locking pin that failed to drop free during retraction, allowing continued mission progress with no delay to next week’s life-search activities.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking
Jim Martin
Martin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Viking 1
Mars
Earth
Mars County Iowa votes to colonize Mars as 100th county
In Des Moines Iowa officials from 99 counties pass a resolution to colonize Mars making the Red Planet the 100th county. Leaders say it would create a true independent county free of state and federal mandates.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Iowa
State Association of Counties
Mars
Don Cleveland
Ralph Juhl
Association
Jihl
Cleveland
Juhl
United States
Mars County
Court Order Blocks 3 Inmate Executions
Supreme Court Justice Powell issued a stay halting the July 2 ruling that allowed Georgia Florida and Texas to proceed with death sentences. The order delays executions nationwide through rehearing considerations, affecting about 630 inmates on death row. The stayed cases involve Charles William Profitt Jerry Lane Jurek and Troy Leo Gregg.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lewis F. Powell
Georgia
Florida
Texas
High Court
Powell
David E. Kendall
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Associated Press
North Carolina
Louisiana
Naacp Fund
Charles William Profitt
Tampa
Fla
Jerry Lane Jurek
Cuero
Tex
Spread of Mine Strike Spreads Across Coal Regions
Wildcat mine walkout idles over 20,000 workers in southern West Virginia as dissidents threaten northern pits. The strike shuts Kanawha Boone Logan mines and ripples to Raleigh Clay Fayette Nicholas Wyoming Greenbrier counties with roving pickets and leaflets.
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Charleston
W Va
West Virginia
Kanawha
Boone
Logan
Raleigh
Clay, Fayette
Nicholas Wyoming
Greenbrier
Cedar Coal Co
Kanawha County
Are
Charleston Gazette
Edwin Wiles
West Virginia Coal Association
Abindon
Cedar Coal
H. E. Widener Jr
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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Ohio
James Earl Jones
Frederick Douglass
Buckeye
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
George Washington
New York
Tom Houchins
Madera
Ed Bates
Corning
Valley Street
South Valley Street
Messenger
Bob Wilson Jr
Sunday Creek
Troy Leo Gregg
John Scalone
Canners
Money
Oregon
United Auto Workers
American Motors
Labor
W. J. Usery
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