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Procter & Gamble brings back A.G. Lafley as CEO
Procter & Gamble Co. is bringing back its former CEO, as the world's largest consumer-products maker tries to spur global growth. In a surprise move, P&G said Thursday that former CEO A.G. Lafley, a 33-year industry veteran, is returning to the Cincinnati company's helm. Lafley, 65, replaces CEO Bob McDonald, ...
Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors. Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Council ...
Company pleads guilty in Ohio fish deaths case
A Strongsville company and the owner's wife have pleaded guilty for their roles in the dumping of liquid cyanide into a storm drain, resulting in the death of almost 31,000 fish in an Ohio river last year. U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach in Cleveland said Thursday Kennedy Mint Inc. pleaded guilty ...
Medical marijuana issue clears Ohio ballot board
A proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana and certain uses of hemp has cleared Ohio's ballot board. The panel's approval Thursday sends the issue into its signature-gathering phase, with a 2014 vote most likely. The deadline for this fall's ballot is July 6. Proponents of the Ohio Cannibis Rights Amendment ...
House Dems seek changes to JobsOhio oversight
Ohio House Democrats proposed reporting and oversight changes to Gov. John Kasich's private nonprofit job-creation office on Thursday that they said would make it more publicly accountable. The so-called JobsOhio Accountability Act targets an operation that has faced a steady stream of challenges since it was created by Kasich in ...
Procter & Gamble says retiring CEO Robert McDonald to be replaced by former CEO A.G. Lafley
Procter & Gamble says retiring CEO Robert McDonald to be replaced by former CEO A.G. Lafley.
With 3 women freed, Cleveland police seeking tips
Police investigators returned to the Cleveland neighborhood where three women were held captive in a house for a decade hoping to get tips on unsolved missing-person cases. Cleveland city and public transit police and the FBI sponsored Thursday evening's event called a "Night Out For Missing Persons." There were two ...
Ohio school board considers creationism curriculum
A civil rights group is asking a southwest Ohio school district to abandon proposed policies that teach creationism in the classroom. The Springboro School Board is considering whether to include creationism in its curriculum and is slated to discuss the issue at a meeting Thursday night. The board previously weighed ...
Ohio kidnap case hero gets year of free McDonald's
The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. Local franchisees in Charles Ramsey's neighborhood have offered him free food at their restaurants, said ...
NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on the progress Thursday a month after the Obama administration unveiled its 2014 budget that proposes ...
Voter fraud cases by Ohio county in 2012 election
Below are county-by-county findings in Ohio's statewide review of voter fraud during the 2012 presidential election: 2012 Post-General Election Statewide Voter Fraud Report County Region Media Market Total Registered Voters Total Votes Cast Irregularities Reported by Counties Cases Referred by Counties Interstate Cross Check Cases Referred by Secretary of State ...
Government reporter Garcia Cano joins AP in Ohio
Regina Garcia Cano, who has covered such issues as medical marijuana, pensions and gas drilling for The Associated Press in Illinois, has been hired to work in the cooperative's Columbus bureau. She will begin the temporary assignment June 10. The appointment was announced Thursday by Karen Testa, editor for the ...
Ohio election review finds no voter fraud epidemic
A first-of-its-kind statewide review found instances of voter fraud in Ohio during last year's presidential election but not rampant abuses, the elections chief in the battleground state said Thursday. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted said the investigation he ordered in January by Ohio's 88 county election boards resulted in ...
NY gov: Fracking decision to come before election
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he'll make a decision on whether to allow shale gas fracking in New York before the 2014 election. Cuomo says he's waiting for his state health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, to report on his own health review. The Democratic governor told the editorial board at the ...
18 charged in alleged Ohio heroin trafficking case
Authorities have broken up an alleged heroin trafficking scheme involving 18 people, who are accused of delivering the drug from Dayton to Portsmouth in southern Ohio. A 29-count indictment unsealed in Cincinnati federal court on Thursday says the suspects conspired to deliver heroin over a two-year period, in which they ...
Ohio family gets $4 million in mom's death by tree
A court has ordered Ohio's Transportation Department to pay $4 million to the family of a woman killed the day after Christmas 2008 when a tree fell on her car while she was driving on a state highway with her 5-year-old son, who was critically injured. The Ohio Court of ...
Kerry Kennedy, farmworker protest Wendy's in NYC
Kerry Kennedy has joined farmworkers protesting outside Wendy's shareholder meeting in New York City. The protesters said Thursday they want Wendy's to sign an agreement to safeguard working conditions for Florida tomato pickers. Other fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King have signed the agreement with the Florida-based Coalition of ...
Toledo police kill man holding shotgun
Toledo police say an officer fatally shot a man who was holding a shotgun on a woman. It happened just before 1 a.m. Thursday when officers patrolling the area came across the man standing over the women in front of a home with the 12-gauge shotgun pointed at her face. ...
2 men charged in slayings of 4 in NE Ohio townhome
Two men have been charged with murder in the killings of four young people whose bodies were found in a townhome in northeast Ohio last month. Akron police filed four counts each of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery on Thursday against 21-year-olds Deshanon Haywood and Derrick Brantley, both of Akron. ...
Rolling Stones exhibit opening in Cleveland
Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of ...
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