Ohio fireworks law debate stalls over consumer sales
Lawmakers weigh limits on consumer fireworks as industry backers led by B J Alan Phantom Fireworks push for access. Residents sign waivers in Jefferson Township while federal and state data note rising sales and injuries. Authorities cite age restrictions and 2006 license moratorium amid lobbying by trade groups and former officials.
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Ohio
Trakas
B.J. Alan Co
Youngstown
Phantom Fireworks
Bruce Zoldan
Harry Meshel
Senate
Ohio Democratic Party
Ohio State Pyrotechnics Association
Robert Lambert
Ohio Eye Care Coalition
Nudge
TNT Fireworks
Jefferson Township
TNT
David Butler
Don Cornette
Dayton
Indiana
Cornette
American Pyrotechnics Association
Ohio State Fire
Trenton Rescue Squad dispute leads to council meeting
Police and rescue squad tensions spill into Terrace Court dispatch log disputes and alleged protocol breaches. Chief Nichols accuses dispatch of delays and breaches while city officials weigh merger options and a return to negotiation with the private rescue squad amid accusations from Hale and Baker.
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Terrace Court
Nichols
Jamy Baker
Baker
Hale
Dispatch
St. Clair Township
Council
Titterington
Sandra McDonnell
Michael Jett
Jett
William Kramer
University of Cincinnati Fire Science Program
Deerfield Township
Warren County
Trenton
Roy William
Cheney Campaign Bus Tour Begins in Parma Ohio
Vice President Dick Cheney opened a campaign bus tour in Parma the big Cleveland suburb, speaking at St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Church before traveling to Wheeling West Virginia and Pittsburgh. Parma, with 86,000 residents and a high foreign-born share, reflects strong blue collar and ethnic community traditions amid Ohio political dynamics.
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Parma
Dick Cheney
Cleveland
Cheney
Wheeling
Wna
Pittsburgh
U.S
Europe
Cuyahoga County
al Gore
Ohio
Gore
Dennis Kucinich
Court asked to rule on detainees
Human rights lawyers filed court challenges for nine Guantanamo Bay detainees urging a ruling that their ongoing confinement is unlawful and prompting the government to justify detention or release them. The suits, the first since the Supreme Court allowed court review, name prisoners from several nations and question isolation and mental health.
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Washington
Guantanamo Bay
Supreme Court
Cuba
U.S
Jeffrey Fogel
New York Center For
al-Qaida
Afghanistan
Bush Administration
America
Maj
Michael Shavers
Pentagon
Kerry to visit Dayton Wednesday rally circuit
Sen John Kerry plans rallies in Cleveland and Dayton Ohio on Wednesday to argue for restoring American values and accountability. Campaign aides say he will discuss jobs health care and financial responsibility amid Massillon talk later. Bush carried Ohio in 2000 by 3.6 points.
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Cleveland
John Kerry
Ohio
Dayton
White House
Jennifer Palmieri
Massillon
Obituary: Doty 104 served as AME leader and volunteer
Thelma Pettronella Jackson Doty, 104, died July 1 2004 at home. Born April 19 1900 in Maysville Ky she was a longtime Middletown resident active in Scott and Bethel AME Churches. She worked for the Aull family, volunteered as a Pink Lady, hosted a WPFB radio show, crocheted extensively, and held leadership in OES PHA Amaranth. Survived by daughter Sylvia Mack and son-in-law Harry, and multiple grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral July 8 at Bethel AME Church with 11 a.m. visitation. Entombment at Woodside Cemetery Mausoleum.
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Thelma Pettronella Jackson Doty
Mrs. Doty
Maysville
Peter
Josephine Jackson
Colored High School
Nashville
WPFB
Lily of the Valley Chapter No. 55
O.E.S. P.H.A
Order of the Golden Circle
Daughters of Isis
Amaranth
O.E.S P.H.A
State of
Ohio
Sylvia
Harry Mack
Dayton
Sylvester J
Frances) Jackson
Hollywood
Fla
Thelma Hampton
Fort Lauderdale
Charles W. Owens
Barrington
R.I
Kevin Mack
Kelli
Terrance) Campbell
Voorhees
N.J
Karmen
Joel) Baker
Knoxville
Tenn
Edythe Shores Mack
Alene Milton Pope
Bethel Ame Church
Yankee Road
Middletown
Wilton Blake I
Donald H. Jordan
Eastern Star
Woodside Cemetery Mausoleum
Deaths Thelma Doty Mary Eileen Jones Elizabeth Lord
Thelma Pettronella Jackson Doty age 104 died July 1 2004. Services 1 p m Thursday at Bethel AME Church. Mary Eileen Jones age 87 died July 2 2004. Services pending. Elizabeth Frances Lord died June 10 with private services in Tucson Arizona.
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Doty
Thelma Pettronella Jackson
Bethel Ame Church
Hall Jordan & Pretty
Jones
Mary Eileen
Herr Riggs
Lord
Elizabeth Frances
Tucson
Ariz
Obituary notices and author Hugh Cave dies at 93
Multiple funeral notices for Baker Stevens McKee and Don Brown plus Geneva Rogers and Bertie Pelfrey Clark. Lebanon and Mason residents honored with noon or 10 am services. In Florida, Hugh Cave, 93, famed pulp fiction author behind Mountain of Madness, dies at hospice in Vero Beach. Cave published under Justin Case and left a new biography and novel near completion.
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Oswald Hoskins
Lebanon
Pelfrey-Clark
Bertie
France
Mason
Fellowship Baptist Church
Hugh Cave
Vero Beach
Fla
Cave
Caribbean
Justin Case
Associated Press
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S. Main St
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Garden Manor
Betty) Lord
Toledo
Sun City
Maumee
Frank M. Powell
Helen Browning Powell
Roy A. Lord
Thomas Arthur Lord
South Carolina
William Frank Lord
Connecticut
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Georgeanne Reeves
William Powell
Merchant Marines
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Ohio Wesleyan University
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