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Ohio schools vote down competitive balance bylaw

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By RUSTY MILLER AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The schism between pub­lic and pri­vate schools — at least on a foot­ball field or a bas­ket­ball court — widened a lit­tle more on Wednes­day. For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year, Ohio high schools voted down a pro­posal that would have addressed the ongo­ing competitive-balance problems […]

Senate eyes OH public pension changes

By JULIE CARR SMYTH AP State­house Cor­re­spon­dent COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Sen­ate fast-tracked leg­is­la­tion on Tues­day aimed at shoring up four of Ohio’s five pub­lic pen­sion funds, with both polit­i­cal par­ties sup­port­ing pas­sage of the changes as early as next week. The idea is not expected to move so quickly in the Ohio House, where […]

Norwalk teacher found alone with student resigns

MorningJournal.com NORWALK (AP) — A Nor­walk High School teacher found alone in a parked car with a 17-year-old male stu­dent in early April has resigned, accord­ing to Super­in­ten­dent Den­nis Doughty. Alexa Nasonti, 25, turned in her let­ter of res­ig­na­tion Wednes­day, which the board accepted dur­ing a spe­cial meet­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing, Doughty said. The school’s investigation […]

Medicare disruptions seen if health law is struck

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Asso­ci­ated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare’s pay­ment sys­tem, the unseen but vital net­work that han­dles 100 mil­lion monthly claims, could freeze up if Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s health care law is sum­mar­ily over­turned, the admin­is­tra­tion has qui­etly informed the courts. Although Obama’s over­haul made sig­nif­i­cant cuts to providers and improved pre­scrip­tion and pre­ven­tive benefits, […]

Ferry break down leaves Canadian island stranded

SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) — Two fer­ries that deliver tourists to a Cana­dian island in Lake Erie have been shut down for weeks, sink­ing much of Pelee Island’s econ­omy. Farm­ers who are ready for spring plant­ing are stuck too, unable to get deliv­er­ies of seed to the island in the west­ern Lake Erie basin between Cleveland […]

Whirlpool to open office campus

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Whirlpool Corp. is set to offi­cially open its new office cam­pus in Ben­ton Har­bor. The appliance-maker says the $70 mil­lion project is a part of a larger plan to con­sol­i­date 15 facil­i­ties into three cen­tral­ized office cam­puses. Whirlpool Chair­man and CEO Jeff Fet­tig and Ben­ton Har­bor Mayor James High­tower were […]

Aging workforce strains Social Security, Medicare

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Asso­ci­ated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An aging pop­u­la­tion and an econ­omy that has been slow to rebound are strain­ing the long-term finances of Social Secu­rity and Medicare, the government’s two largest ben­e­fit pro­grams. Those prob­lems are get­ting new atten­tion Mon­day as the trustees who over­see the mas­sive pro­grams release their annual finan­cial reports. […]

Romney says Obama playing hide-and-seek

By DAVID ESPO AP Spe­cial Cor­re­spon­dent WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Rom­ney unleashed a strong attack on Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s truth­ful­ness Wednes­day, accus­ing him of run­ning a “hide-and-seek” re-election cam­paign designed to dis­tract vot­ers from his first-term record while deny­ing them infor­ma­tion about his plans for a sec­ond. Address­ing an audi­ence of news­pa­per edi­tors and pub­lish­ers, Romney […]

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