Celeste Center to be renamed Pepsi Entertainment Center
Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe demanded an investigation into a proposal to rename the Celeste Center to the Pepsi Entertainment Center while preserving Celeste’s name on a plaque. Fair spokesman Pieter Wykoff said the building would keep Celeste’s name on the plaque but be listed as the Pepsi Entertainment Center in branding and documents.
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Voinovich urged delay of college budget cuts in Ohio
Governor Voinovich faced calls to postpone cuts that would strike state universities and colleges. He warned cuts would take effect Tuesday unless an alternative plan to close a $520 million deficit emerges. Ohio State President E Gordon Gee warned the 7 percent cuts totaling about $40 million could devastate OSU, forcing surcharges on tickets and cancellation of a presidential debate.
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Weather Story Fragments Include Rain Snow And Showers
Fragmentary notes mention showers thunderstorms rain and snow and a weather graphic. The sparse readable bits suggest unsettled conditions with periodic precipitation and possible temperature shifts across regions.
Weekend Forecast Shows Showers Return Early Next Week
The extended forecast calls for fair conditions Sunday with a chance of showers on Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures will top in the 70s, with Sunday lows in the upper 40s to mid 50s and 50s on Monday and Tuesday. Today’s high is 74 and the low 50, with normal high 80. Northwest winds 10 to 15 knots, waves 2 to 3 feet. tonight west to southwest winds under 10 knots and waves under 2 feet.
Thunderstorms Roar Across Southeast and Gulf Coast
Weather reports describe widespread thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley with locally heavy rain. Areas near Winnsboro South Carolina saw half inch hail and Tuskegee Alabama faced downed trees and power lines as 2 pm rainfall totals ranged from 0.77 to 1.35 inches in several locations.
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Guard inmate attack claims Ohio prison guard life
In Mansfield a guard who was attacked with a padlock and a homemade knife died in hospital. Roy Slider, a 32 year old inmate, is accused of shouting racial slurs as he assaulted Thomas Davis Jr. 47, with the death marking Ohio's 11th such case in 70 years. The 2216 inmates remain confined to cells as lockdown continues.
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Surviving bone marrow twin returns home in Toledo
A 9 month old girl Marena Perretti who had a bone marrow transplant with her twin sister Marissa in Seattle on March 27 traveled by ambulance to the Medical College of Ohio Hospital Toledo for observation after months in treatment. The twins, diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, were the first United States twins to receive marrow from the same unrelated donor. Marissa died last month.
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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