Congress weighs steroids policy and penalties for baseball
Lawmakers criticized baseballs drug testing plan seeking harsher penalties than fines. Selig defended the policy as a tool for behavior change while acknowledging short bans for first offenses and potential future hearings by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Poll favors removing steroid users from baseball record books
An ABC ESPN poll of 1,019 adults found that about two thirds say players who used performance enhancing drugs should not be eligible for the Hall of Fame and that MLB should set and enforce rules on steroids. The survey, taken March 11 to 15, notes a 3 point margin of error.
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Woman Found Buried Under Concrete Near Hillsboro
Highland County detectives recovered a second body this week in southwest Ohio, a woman killed possibly in 1998 and encased in a 55 gallon barrel near a driveway. Cynthia Pickens, 39, disappeared in November 2003 and was found buried under a steel outbuilding in Liberty Township, about a mile east of Hillsboro, with investigators probing her cause of death as homicide. Authorities have a suspect in custody tied to one death. The coroner’s office in Montgomery County will identify the latest victim and determine the cause of death.
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Ohio
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Lawmakers weigh changes to year-old concealed carry law
Ohio lawmakers plan a summer push to revisit the concealed carry statute to loosen car-gun rules and media access to permit holder details. Rep. Jim Aslanides says background checks and 12 hours training stay. opponents warn on safety. Leaders from sheriffs, police groups, and the highway patrol express mixed views amid gubernatorial veto talk.
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Ohio
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Rick Zwayer
Zwayer
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Mark Rickel
Rickel
Toby Hoover
Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Hoover
Tom Brinkman
Cincinnati
Bill Seitz
Man killed by trooper had wrist wounds and weapons
A man shot and killed while charging a state trooper with a hatchet had wrist wounds and a box cutter found in the pickup he drove as he rammed several cars on a freeway. Investigators interviewed witnesses and Williams' relatives to determine motive while checking if the box cutter matched wrist wounds. An autopsy was performed.
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Ebrahiem R. Williams
Joe Luebbers
Luebbers
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