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New health insurance co-ops win federal loans
Seven organizations will receive a total of $639 million in federal low-interest loans to launch new, consumer-governed health insurance plans in eight states, the federal government announced Tuesday.

February 22, 2012
Feds: Ohioan against fur planned murder-for-hire
An Ohio woman who compared animal-welfare work to the liberation of World War II concentration camps has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer, federal authorities said.

February 22, 2012
New suppliers to ease two cancer drug shortages
The Food and Drug Administration has moved to increase the supplies of two needed cancer-treatment drugs and on Tuesday issued a draft guidance on how to cope with the problem of drug shortages.

February 22, 2012
In Ohio, hopefuls draw lines
Philosophical differences between the top two Republican presidential candidates are becoming starker as Rick Santorum drives harder on religious and social issues that Mitt Romney rarely discusses in detail.

February 21, 2012
Oil prices gush
Oil prices jumped to a nine-month high above $105 a barrel on Monday after Iran said it halted crude exports to Britain and France in an escalation of a dispute over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program.

February 21, 2012
GODSPEED JOHN GLENN
The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.

February 20, 2012 1 Photo
Ohio looks up for grabs as GOP primary nears
In swing-state Ohio, support has been swinging in a lot of directions as the Republican presidential primary approaches.

February 20, 2012
Ohio mom, baby found shot to death alongside man
CLEVELAND (AP) — A wanted man kidnapped his estranged girlfriend at gunpoint along with her 1-year-old she was pushing in a stroller, Cleveland police said Sunday, and all three were found shot to death hours later.

February 20, 2012
Police find remains of Ohio girl missing in 1999
LIMA, Ohio (AP) — Police say the skeleton of a 14-year-old Ohio runaway who went missing in 1999 have been found after the home where she was last seen was demolished.
The Lima News reports that Lima police on Saturday said the remains of Nicholle Coppler were found in a crawl space as the home’s foundation was being dug out. Allen County Coroner Gary Beasley said they were identified through dental records.

February 20, 2012
Family, friends gather to honor Whitney Houston
The best voices of a generation all paid tribute to her. But in the end, the most powerful voice at Whitney Houston’s funeral was her own.

February 19, 2012
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