FIASCO forces Ohio rail authority chief to resign
Graeme MacKeown quits as director of the Ohio Rail Transportation Authority after less than two months citing lack of support from the Rhodes Administration and an unworkable ORTA structure. He notes he never received a regular paycheck and criticizes ODOT and space constraints hindering the agency’s function.
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Columbus, Ohio
Graeme MacKeown
Ohio Rail Transportation Authority
MacKeown
Rhodes
ORTA
Ular
State Department of Transportation
ODOT
Envoy Optimistic Cease-fire Halts Lebanese Battles
In Lebanon a four mountain town cease-fire halts tank and artillery battles as President elect Elias Sarkis gains leverage for peace. Ford envoy J L Dean Brown praises the shift from fighting to rebuilding and offers U.S. support.
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Lebanon
Ford
Elias Sarkis
JL. Dean Brown
United States
Brown
Washington
Western
Sarkis
Lucasville Prison Security Under Legislative Scrutiny
A legislative inquiry into security conditions at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville is set to begin Wednesday. The probe follows a three day inmate hunger strike and guard protests tied to overcrowding housing 2000 inmates in a 1600 capacity facility.
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Columbus, Ohio
Southern Ohio
Lucasville
House
Vernal G. Riffe,Jr
New
Boston
Oliver Ocasek
Akron
Ohio
Riffe
Ocasek
State passes laws expanding school zone reach and drilling rules
Gov. James A Rhodes signed a package of five bills on Monday. The major measure lets the transportation director extend 20 mph school zones up to 300 feet beyond property lines to protect students. Other laws ease oil and gas drilling on company property, authorize delinquent youth detention commitments, and increase state aid for community mental health and mental retardation projects.
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Columbus
Ohio
Transportation Director
James A Rhodes
Rhodes
Michael DelBane
D-56
Hubbard
Richard Jackson
Mahoning County
Thomas J. Carney
Boardman
A.G. Lancione
Bellaire
Ohio Youth Commission
William G. Batchelder
Medina
Middletown Weather Forecast Tonight Through Saturday
Partly cloudy skies over Middletown tonight with lows in the mid-40s and highs tomorrow in the upper 60s. Yesterday reached 76 with a 52 overnight. Extended outlook shows a chance of showers Thursday and Saturday with cloudy skies Friday.
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Middletown
Junkman of a 38-ton WWII tank runs for sheriff
Clermont County resident John Coyne campaigns as a write in candidate for sheriff in Batavia Ohio aboard a 38 ton World War II tank he kept on his salvage lot. He served six months in jail for contempt for failing to remove the tank after court orders and has argued the tank is a collectors item amid long standing zoning disputes with county officials.
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Batavia, Ohio
John Coyne
Clermont County
Coyne
New Richmond
Common Pleas
Oii
Ohio
Ohio Board Sets Yearly 3 R’s Tests In Public Schools
Ohio public schools will test reading in grades 4 8 and 12 English composition and mathematics in grade 8 starting next fall with yearly sampling to measure student achievement. The board adopted state standards and scheduled regional hearings on education for handicapped children.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Board of Education
General Assembly
Ambassadors Death Shocks Paris as Bolivian Envoy is Shot
Bolivian ambassador to France General Joaquin Zenteno Anaya was shot to death near the Quai Kennedy after leaving the Bolivian embassy. He had served as Bolivian armed forces chief of staff and foreign minister and was linked to past Bolivian security actions.
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France
Joaquin Zenteno Anaya
Zenteno Anaya
Bolivia
Quai Kennedy
Seine River
Ernesto
Che’ Guevara
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