Archive for December, 2007

Wells: Ohio State’s warrior (The Canton Repository)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

COLUMBUS A few weeks before bruising Beanie took his first handoff as Ohio State’s starting tailback, Jim Tressel pulled him aside for a conversation. It was the kind of thing a head coach says to a key player before a season begins.

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Ohio proposal would create alert program for missing elderly (Port Clinton News Herald)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

COLUMBUS — Ohio would create a statewide emergency-alert program to locate missing elderly people or adults with mental impairments under legislation working its way through the General Assembly.

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Ohio minimum wage set to increase 15 cents (NBC 24 Toledo)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Posted: Friday, December 28, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s lowest-paid workers are about to get a raise.

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Ohio minimum wage set to increase 15 cents (WKYC Cleveland)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s lowest-paid workers are about to get a raise.

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Ohio minimum wage set to increase 15 cents (WFMJ Youngstown)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio’s lowest-paid workers are about to get a raise. The state Department of Commerce notes that Ohio’s minimum wage for most workers will increase New Year’s Day to $7.00 per hour, from the current $6.85.

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BOWL COVERAGE: Want a Wii this holiday season? Play for Ohio State or LSU (Detroit Free Press)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While their schools are making millions of dollars off their appearance in the Bowl Championship Series title game, each of the players from Ohio State and LSU will at least walk away with one of the hottest gifts this holiday season.

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Fans debate buying or selling tickets to Ohio State’s bowl game (The Times-Reporter)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Updated at 11:15 a.m. COLUMBUS, O. (AP) – The tickets to the Bowl Championship Series title game between LSU and Ohio State have a face value of $175 apiece. They’re worth a lot more than that to people who won a student lottery to buy them.

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Top assistant to Ohio attorney general resigns (News Journal)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A top assistant to Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann who defended the state in court over its method of executing death row inmates has resigned, Dann’s office said today.

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Ohio restaurant robbery thwarted by employee’s voice-activated phone headset (CNews)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The man with the gun ordered workers at a fast-food restaurant not to answer the phone. But one worker’s voice-activated headset didn’t co-operate.

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Tubbs Jones tops Ohio list of congressional mailers (WKYC Cleveland)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a Democrat from Cleveland, spent more than any Ohio colleague last year on newsletters and fliers mailed to constituents.

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