| April 17, 2008 | -
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland signed into law a bill that allows disabled hunters to shoot from their cars.
| Source:
The Plain Dealer
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| March 8, 2008 | - After John McCain swept Republican contests in Ohio, Rhode Island,
Texas, and Vermont and secured by some counts the delegates required for his party's nomination, his rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul withdrew from the presidential race. McCain visited the White House to eat a lunch of hot dogs with George W. Bush and accept the President's endorsement. “If my showing up and endorsing him helps him, or if I'm against him and it helps him, either way, I want him to win,” said Bush.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| March 8, 2008 | - Referring to the Obama campaign's treatment of the North America Free Trade Agreement, Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize‒winner and an unpaid adviser to Obama, told an interviewer for The Scotsman, “We fucked up in Ohio. . . . In Ohio, they are obsessed, and Hillary is going to town on it because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win. . . . She is a monster too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything.” After the newspaper published her remarks, Power apologized, asserted her admiration for Clinton, and resigned from Obama's campaign.
| Source:
Scotsman
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| November 2, 2007 | - Eight-year-old twins from Ohio were nationally recognized for inventing wedgie-proof underpants.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
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| October 19, 2007 | - An Ohio woman stood accused of digging up her ex-boyfriend's grave and stealing his ashes,
| Source:
CNN
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| October 19, 2007 | - An Ohio woman stood accused of digging up her ex-boyfriend's grave and stealing his ashes,
| Source:
CNN
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| July 18, 2007 | - A man with a needle sticking out of his arm crashed his car into a Cincinnati, Ohio, drug treatment center.
| Source:
WLWT
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| July 14, 2007 | - Police recovered a seven-week-old boy from the middle of a road in Ohio, where his naked mother had placed him in order to appease Satan.
| Source:
WLWT
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| June 28, 2007 | - “Is it a surprise to anybody in this room that if you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice?” asked Alaska Senator Mike Gravel at the third debate of the Democratic presidential candidates. Gravel called for the abolition of the income tax and the war on drugs, Ohio
Congressman Dennis Kucinich called for the abolition of NAFTA and the WTO, and Hillary Clinton predicted that global warming would create jobs for millions of Americans. Joseph Biden and Barack Obama reminisced about getting tested for HIV.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 5, 2007 | - High school officials in Galesburg, Ohio, withheld the diplomas of five seniors after their friends and families cheered too loudly at the commencement.
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 25, 2007 | - The execution of an overweight prisoner in Ohio was performed 90 minutes behind schedule because medical workers were unable to find a vein for the lethal injection.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 15, 2007 | - A couple in Ohio were sentenced to two years in prison for forcing their adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages.
| Source:
AP via Chicago Sun-Times
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| November 20, 2006 | - Residents of Oberlin, Ohio, were upset by the presence of gingerbread
Nazis.
| Source:
ABC News
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| November 19, 2006 | - Football coach Bo Schembechler died and Ohio State beat Michigan 42-39.
| Source 1:
ESPN
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| October 24, 2006 | - The Reproductive Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed that men who use their cell phones too much could be making themselves infertile.
| Source:
The Independent
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| October 18, 2006 | - An Ohio cult leader who shot and killed a family of five as they stood in a pit dug inside his barn contested his upcoming lethal injection on the grounds that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment to execute a fat man.
| Source 1:
Reuters via New York Times
Source 2:
CNN
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| September 25, 2006 | - A Mitsubishi dealership in Columbus, Ohio, withdrew a radio ad proclaiming “jihad” on the U.S. auto market.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| August 15, 2006 | - Officials in Canton, Ohio, decided that a 13 percent pregnancy rate among its high schools' females justified moving beyond an abstinence-only approach to sex education.
| Source 1:
LA Times
Source 2:
Local6.com
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| August 2, 2006 | - Geologists in Ohio were baffled by the earthquakes in suburban Cleveland.
| Source:
CNN
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| May 31, 2006 | - An Ohio coin dealer named John Noe pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally funneled more than $45,000 to Bush's reelection campaign.
| Source:
The Mercury News
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| May 30, 2006 | - An Ohio man was awarded a patent for a cordless jump rope.
| Source:
local6.com
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| May 11, 2006 | - A tornado struck Wizard of Oz Drive in Hillsboro, Ohio.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| April 7, 2006 | - A chiropractor in Ohio was in trouble for telling his patients that he could cure their ills by traveling back in time to when the injury occurred (a practice he calls "Bahlaqeem").
| Source:
MSNBC
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| March 8, 2006 | - In Licking County, Ohio, a man was accused of making 2,623 obscene phone calls over 20 days.
| Source:
SFGate.com
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| February 27, 2006 | - In Columbus, Ohio, a 54-year-old man was in jail after being caught hiding in bathrooms to collect the urine of adolescent boys. "I'm drinking their youth," he explained.
| Source:
WJACTV.com
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| January 16, 2006 | - At Ohio State University a 47-year-old chimpanzee named Sarah (who knows the numbers from zero through six) attacked a student.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| December 22, 2005 | - In Hubbard, Ohio, a Santa clutched his chest and collapsed as he appeared before 750 elementary schoolchildren.
| Source:
Cleveland.com
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| December 19, 2005 | - An Ohio man named Wayne Green was suing a police drug
dog for illegal search. “They've got a mean ol' dog,” he explained. “You know what I'm saying?” The dog, Andi, signed with a paw print when served with the complaint.
| Source:
CourtTV.com
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| December 19, 2005 | - For the second time this year, someone stole the life-sized Jesus from a nativity scene in Cincinnati, Ohio, although this time they left behind baby Jesus's leg.
| Source:
The Canton Rep
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| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative
Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 19, 2005 | - Representative John Murtha (D., Pa.), called for the halt of U.S. troop deployments to Iraq. Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.), seeking to cut off debate over Murtha's statements, countered by proposing a measure that required that U.S. troops be brought home immediately. Jean Schmidt (R., Ohio) addressed Murtha, a decorated veteran and former Marine colonel who previously supported the invasion of Iraq, by quoting a Marine Corps reserve officer who told her that “cowards cut and run.” She was booed by Democrats. “You guys,” yelled Marty Meehan (D., Mass.), “are pathetic!” Harold Ford (D., Tenn.) ran across the House chamber's center aisle to the Republican side. “Say Murtha's name!” he shouted. Schmidt asked that her comments be struck from the record, and Hunter's resolution was rejected 403 to 3, with Murtha among those voting against it.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 20, 2005 | - A two-year-old in Ohio was recovering after he got his arm caught in an electric meat grinder.
| Source:
News Channel 5
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| October 18, 2005 | - An Ohio woman was found guilty of killing her four-year-old son by setting him on fire. She also burned his puppy.
| Source:
Turn to 10
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| August 25, 2005 | - A Springfield Township, Ohio, postal worker was caught putting urine in the post office coffeepot.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| August 22, 2005 | - People were looking for the source of a mysterious, recurring screaming in Liberty, Ohio.
| Source:
ChannelCincinnati.com
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| July 12, 2005 | -
Dennis Kucinich was in love.
| Source:
The Plain Dealer
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| June 30, 2005 | - Lightning struck a sleeping child's mattress in Kansas, sparked a wildfire in Alaska's interior, shocked a boy in New Hampshire through his video-game controller, killed both a golfer and a prisoner in Ohio, and struck the offices of the National Weather Service in Iowa.
| Source 1:
Source 2:
KTUU.com
Source 3:
The Boston Channel
Source 4:
WBNSTV
Source 5:
TheIowaChannel.com
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| March 25, 2005 | - An Ohio judge threw out domestic violence charges brought by a woman against her live-in boyfriend, who slapped and pushed her, because Ohio's anti-gay-marriage law prohibits state or local government from enforcing laws that “create or recognize a legal status of unmarried individuals.”
| Source:
The Advocate
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| January 7, 2005 | - Congress officially ratified President Bush's election victory after a two-hour debate about voting irregularities in Ohio.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| November 7, 2004 | - Lines at Ohio polls were extremely long; one was estimated at 22 hours.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 6, 2004 | - An electronic voting machine in Ohio added 3,893 votes to President Bush's tally in a district that had only 800 voters.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 1, 2004 | - A clinic in Cleveland was hoping to perform a face transplant using skin and the underlying fat from a donor.
| Source:
USA Today
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| October 24, 2004 | - Senator John Kerry killed some geese in Ohio and showed reporters his bloody hand to prove it.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 18, 2004 | - Absentee ballots missing the names of John Kerry and John Edwards were mailed to Ohio voters.
| Source:
Cincinnati Post
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| October 4, 2004 | -
Election officials across the country were reporting record numbers of new registrations, and Republican state officials in Ohio and Florida were doing their best to invalidate them on technicalities.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 10, 2004 | - A federal air marshall left her loaded pistol on a shelf in a public restroom at the Cleveland, Ohio, airport near gate C-3; a passenger found the gun and immediately contacted the proper authorities.
| Source:
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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| February 9, 2004 | - The Ohio
sniper continued to shoot at cars.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 24, 2004 | - A sniper was still shooting cars in Ohio.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 7, 2004 | - A man wearing a chicken>
suit robbed a grocery store in Columbus, Ohio.
| Source:
NBC5.com
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