Friday, March 2, 2012

Emptying My Ohio Clip

Provided by the Globe:

"Details emerge on Ohio shooting suspect" Associated Press / March 1, 2012

CHARDON, Ohio - The teenager accused in an Ohio school shooting struggled with a broken family and did poorly in school, then appeared to turn himself around once he was taken in by grandparents and began to attend an alternative school, longtime neighbors and friends said yesterday.

They expressed disbelief at how the quiet but friendly boy is now held in a shooting that left three people dead and appears to have involved a gun that disappeared from his grandfather’s barn....

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Related: 1 dead, 4 wounded in Ohio high school shooting

Ohio DA says shooter 'not well'

Coach deflects praise in Ohio school shooting

"Ohio adoptive father accused of raping 3 children" February 29, 2012

TROY, Ohio—An adoptive father in western Ohio has been accused of raping three children and allowing other men to have sex with one of them. Troy police said an undercover detective from Franklin County had talked to the suspect online about setting up sex with the 10-year-old boy.

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Related: Adoptive father, two other men, face abuse charges

"Romney moves fight to Ohio" March 01, 2012|By Matt Viser

 BEXLEY, Ohio — A new poll yesterday showed Rick Santorum with an 11-point lead in Ohio. The poll, conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati, found Santorum with 37 percent compared with 26 percent for Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich was well behind at 16 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 11 percent....

Paul, who has generally not campaigned as vigorously as his rivals, flew home to Texas to celebrate his wife’s birthday yesterday....
 

That's a lie, but the press has gotten its way and relegated Ron Paul to fourth.  What's worse, Paul doesn't really challenge it.

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Also see: Romney and Paul, what a curious couple

State GOP leaders behind Mitt Romney

Next Day Update:

4 die in wrong-way driver crash in Ohio