By FRANK BAJAK CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded by other government officials, announced the [...]
By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 2, the 61st day of 2013. There are 304 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 2, 1943, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — Election officials say a nun in southwest Ohio is suspected of illegally casting a ballot for another nun who had died before last November’s election. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a ballot in the name of a nun who died in October was returned to the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati. [...]
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The Youngstown city council approved an anti-fracking amendment for the May 7 primary election ballot — even though there are doubts about whether it could be enforced. The Vindicator newspaper reports that the council on Wednesday night approved the charter amendment for the ballot. It would ban the gas drilling process [...]
By The Associated Press Today is Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2013. There are 321 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 13, 1943, during World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established. On this date: In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King [...]
BRYAN, Ohio (AP) Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy’s maker said. Cassagnes died Jan. 16 in a Paris suburb at age 86, said the Ohio Art Co., based in Bryan in northwest Ohio. The [...]
By AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) — A weakened Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Wednesday to keep his job by extending his hand to a new centrist party that advocates a more earnest push on peacemaking with the Palestinians and whose surprisingly strong showing broadsided him with a stunning election deadlock. The results defied forecasts that [...]
By The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A list of the top 10 stories of 2012 from the Ohio Associated Press, as voted on by member newspapers and broadcasters around the state: 1. The 2012 presidential election campaign targeted Ohio with President Barack Obama going on to clinch the state’s electoral votes and win [...]
