Army botulism drug aids newborn recovery at Children's
An experimental Army antitoxin used for the first time to treat a newborn with botulism saved her life. Born Dec 29, she weighed 7 pounds and needed a ventilator before improvement allowed removal from the respirator. Doctors credited the drug from the Army and FDA clearance for saving the child after initial paralysis.
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Columbus
Children’s Hospital
Richard McClead
James Arthur
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Saudi Arabia
Egypt
Higher juror pay prompts county budgeting worries
Ohio counties face higher juror costs after Gov. Voinovich signed a bill raising the maximum daily fee from 15 to 40 dollars, effective April 16. Counties vary in current rates. Perry County would need about 27,000 to cover similar juror turnout. The bill also ends automatic exemptions for several professions and groups.
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Columbus
George Voinovich
Kay Burns
Perry County
Ohio
Clinton County
Fairfield County
Licking County
Delaware County
Fire marshal seeks cause of rural blaze
A rural house fire on state Route 83 caused about 90000 in damage to the second floor and roof at 17715 Avon Belden Road. No injuries were reported as the state fire marshal investigates the cause after about four hours of effort by 57 firefighters from Grafton Eaton LaGrange and Litchfield. Water was shuttled from a hydrant on Grafton Eastern Road and 83 South to the scene roughly a mile away.
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Grafton
Avon-Belden Road
Roger Valeri
Eaton
LaGrange
Litchfield
Grafton Eastern Road
Valeri
MLK Day Office, School Closings Announced in Elyria
Elyria area government offices city state and county will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr Day. City schools Lorain County Community College and most banks and post offices will also close. Sanitation will skip Monday collections and run a day behind rest of week with final pickups Saturday. BFI trash will be collected as scheduled Monday.
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Elyria
Martin Luther King Jr
Lorain County Community College
Elyria City
Bill to lengthen gang felony sentences approved in Ohio
Ohio House lawmakers approved a measure 83 to 11 to add three years to sentences for gang members who commit violent felonies and to define criminal gangs legally. Backers cite rising gang activity as justification, noting Ohio has about 17,000 members, ranking fourth in the nation.
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Columbus
House
Ohio
Lawmakers clash over privatized DUI prison plan in Grafton
Ohio lawmakers criticize amendments to a bill permitting a 500 bed DUI jail run by a private firm. Councilman Tom Smith opposes privatization citing profit focus and concerns over resident protection. The $25 million facility would sit near Route 83, north of Grafton Correctional Institution, hosting offenders with five plus DUI convictions and creating about 80 jobs, across from Lorain Correctional Institution processing center. The bill, advanced by a Senate subcommittee, faces a House vote next.
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Grafton
Tom Smith
Smith
Ohio House
Senate
House
John Bender
D-Elyria
Grafton Correctional Institution
Lorain Correctional Institution
Lorain Correctional Instituion
Ohio
Youngstown
Bender
Stokes to retire from seat in Congress
Rep Louis Stokes, 72, announces retirement after this current term ending in Congress. The Cleveland Democrat, first elected in 1968, cited the difficulty of leaving after three decades and noted his role in aiding brother Carl Stokes’ 1967 mayoral win. The Stokes brothers reshaped Cleveland politics until Carl’s death in 1996.
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Rep. Stokes
Congress
Stokes
Cleveland
Carl Stokes
U.S
Stokes Brothers
Carl
Louis Stokes
Lou
Michael R. White
Biography of Ohio’s first Black congressman from Cleveland
Biography notes a Cleveland native who attended Western Reserve University and Cleveland Marshall School and served as a personnel specialist in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He and his wife Jeanette raised four children Shelly Angela Louis C. and Lorene. He became Ohio’s first Black congressman and was the first Black member of the House Appropriations Committee.
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Cleveland
Western Reserve University
Cleveland Marshall School
Army
Jeanette
Shelly
Angela
Louis C
Lorene
Ohio
Appropriations Committee
House
Stokes Says Move Back to District After Saturday Action
Stokes urged return to the district as events unfolded on Saturday, with subsequent steps outlined by the speaker. The remarks came amid ongoing discussions about district alignment and political strategy.
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Stokes
Glenn's Space Mission Aims to Probe Aging Effects
NASA plans a fall shuttle flight for 76 year old John Glenn to study aging symptoms seen in astronauts and elders. The project, with NIH support, seeks clues on bone and muscle decline and immune changes to model aging during long space missions.
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Ohio
Space
Earth
NASA
Glenn
Robert N. Butler
Internal
New York
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