CINCINNATI (AP) — A student at an all-male parochial high school pulled out a gun in a classroom Monday morning and shot himself in an apparent suicide attempt, police said. The youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound, police said. There apparently was no threat to other students at La [...]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Experts say recent wet weather may boost Great Lakes water levels, but it’s uncertain by how much — or how long it will last. Drew Gronewold is a hydrologist with NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. He said Tuesday that runoff from melting snow and rain showers [...]
WARREN, Ohio (AP) — An Amish couple has sued a county children’s services agency in northeast Ohio, claiming workers there are responsible for their adopted child being raped by its biological parents during a partially unsupervised visit. The federal lawsuit was filed this month on behalf of a couple who live in West Farmington, north [...]
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to defrauding more than $225,000 from contractors involved in FBI building projects in Indianapolis and Knoxville, Tenn. Fifty-one-year-old Robert Berryhill of Aurora pleaded guilty to nine counts Tuesday in Akron federal court. The judge scheduled sentencing for July 30. Berryhill was charged with mail and [...]
By JEFF AMY OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A federal official says the man charged with sending poison letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge has been released from jail. Jeff Woodfin, chief deputy with the U.S. Marshals Service in Oxford, Miss., says Paul Kevin Curtis has been released from custody. [...]
By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2013. There are 252 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 23, 1943, U.S. Navy Lt. (jg) John F. Kennedy assumed command of PT-109, a motor torpedo boat, in the Solomon Islands during World War II. (On Aug. [...]
By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City under a proposal unveiled Monday to make the city the most populous place in America to set the minimum age that high. Extending a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the [...]
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as “Obamacare.” It could mean exposing businesses to Internal Revenue Service penalties and leaving low-income citizens unable to afford coverage even as legal [...]
