Ohio anti casino efforts face repeated defeats
Ohio ballot initiatives to legalize casino gambling failed in 1990 and 1996. Officials and advocates clash over revenue projections with critics calling casino gambling a social danger while supporters cite job creation and cross border leakage to Indiana. Cox News Service reports on the dispute and regional lobbying.
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Voinovich
Petro
Cleveland
Ohio Quit Line fuels surge in calls across Dayton area
Swain is among a growing number of Ohio smokers using the free quit line as statewide calls to 800 QUIT-NOW surge. Ohio accounts for 70 percent of nationwide calls, with more than 175 daily, funded by a multistate tobacco settlement. The program reports 1,571 residents enrolled locally, a 67 percent rise in late winter, and a six month success rate of 29 percent among enrollees, higher than the national 5 percent.
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Ohio
Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation
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Warren
Preble
Clark
Greene
Miami
Renner
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Motive sought in Red Lake shooting at Minnesota school
The Red Lake Reservation shooting left a security guard dead and a student killer identified as Jeff Weise. Officials pursue motive while a Fargo hospital treats him for critical gunshot wounds to the face. Authorities note postings praising Nazism under the handle Todesengel. School was closed and prayers held as communities mourn and review security.
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N.D
Floyd Jourdain Jr
Red Lake
Red Lake Reservation
Tubman
Weise
Kathryn Beaulieu
St. Paul
Ona Kingbird
Minnesota
Tim Pawlenty
Brun
Nancy Richards
Butler County growth shows deliberate strategy and big investments
Butler County officials praised planned development and strong public investment after Dell and Cincinnati Financial earned awards for local projects. Dell’s West Chester distribution center aims to add 665 jobs, while Cincinnati Financial plans a 487,000 square foot tower with 700 underground parking spaces in Fairfield and hires of about 500 more in coming years. County leaders touted roads and infrastructure to sustain growth and urged state action to boost job creation.
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Cincinnati Financial
West Chester Township
Fairfield
APL Logistics
APL
Rick Bedwell
Dell Performance Center
David Gile
West Chester
Gile
West Chester Development
State of Ohio
Butler County
Norm Settle
Settle
Columbus
ODOT
Greg Jolivette
American Farmland Trust
Fox
Liberty
Liberty Township
Union Centre Boulevard
Monroe
Oxford
Trenton
Departments of Development and Transportation
Ohio
Schiavo case appeal heard as dispute over feeding tube
The Schindlers' appeal of a Florida feeding tube ruling was heard before US District Judge James Whittemore in Tampa. Vatican criticism followed, labeling the decision a death by hunger. Protests occurred outside hospice and the 11th Circuit building as the case remained unresolved.
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Tampa
James Whittemore
11Th Circuit
Federal Appeals Court
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Whittemore
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Schiavo
Bob Schindler
Terri
Atlanta
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