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• [01-06-2012] First racino in Ohio opens Friday
  
  COLUMBUS: The state’s newest gambling destination is bringing a little Las Vegas-style swagger to an old horse track surrounded by cornfields.Scioto Downs Casino & Racetrack opens this afternoon, becoming the first racino in the...
  
  
• [29-05-2012] Residential building code in Ohio gets huge update
  
  After years of debate and intense lobbying, Ohio has adopted a new residential building code.The code will require new homes to be more energy-efficient, come with carbon-monoxide detectors and be tested for air leaks.“Ohio’s...
  
  
• [27-05-2012] Star Student: Alexandra Williams, Walsh Jesuit
  
  WALSH JESUITGPA: 3.88COLLEGE: Case Western Reserve UniversityStepping out onto the tarmac in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, I saw barbed wire and the ominous presence of soldiers dressed in combat fatigues, wielding automatic...
  
  
• [25-05-2012] Akron Zoo opening new reef exhibit
  
  The giant Pacific octopus doesn’t have a name, but she commands attention as the queen of the new Journey to the Reef exhibit opening Saturday at the Akron Zoo.Slowly, suction cups on elegant arms move her along glass that puts...
  
  
• [24-05-2012] Twinsburg firefighters train to predict deadly ‘flashovers’
  
  TWINSBURG: Twinsburg firefighters trained this week to predict deadly flashovers, courtesy of a brother firefighter who was injured in one.A flashover is the point where everything in the room ignites.Paul Nees, a University...
  
  
• [23-05-2012] LaRose introduces meth bill
  
  Beacon Journal staff reportCOLUMBUS: State Sens. Frank LaRose, R-Copley Township, and Bill Beagle, R-Tipp City, introduced legislation Tuesday to tackle methamphetamine production across Ohio and hold property owners accountable for...
  
  
• [22-05-2012] Memorabilia salvaged from Zeppe’s fire in Hudson
  
  HUDSON: The weekend fire at Zeppe’s Pizza threatened not only the business, but also a bit of family history.Gina Ciresi, a co-owner of the restaurant, is a former opera singer who has performed with the legendary tenor...
  
  
• [17-05-2012] Phoenix-area companies take on role as class sponsors
  
  In the hallways of the Arizona Charter Academy in Surprise, two small plaques hang on the walls outside the second and fifth grades. They don't announce room numbers or teachers' names. Instead, they indicate the classes are sponsored by...
  
  
• [16-05-2012] Fun amongst the living at Historic Oakland Cemetery
  
  Outside the shoulder-high red brick walls of Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery with its 125-year-old monuments and tombstones peeking out, one’s imagination about the other side can get the best of them....
  
  
• [16-05-2012] Fun amongst the living at Historic Oakland Cemetery
  
  Outside the shoulder-high red brick walls of Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery with its 125-year-old monuments and tombstones peeking out, one’s imagination about the other side can get the best of them....
  
  
• [13-05-2012] Jewell Cardwell: Her blueprint for mothering began in Akron
  
  Lucimarian Roberts said the philosophy on raising successful children is pretty much the same today as it was when she was a young mother.Societal rules may have relaxed over the years, but that should never trump home, insisted the...
  
  
• [11-05-2012] ODOT changes mind, will place sound walls in Northfield neighborhood
  
  A Northfield neighborhood that has been begging the Ohio Department of Transportation for sound walls for two years will get its wish.ODOT has agreed to install walls near the recently built Route 8/Interstate 271 interchange.Paul...
  
  
• [10-05-2012] Horseshoe Casino Cleveland ready to open Monday
  
  CLEVELAND: Horseshoe Casino Cleveland is expecting an avalanche of gamblers and gawkers when it opens Monday night, becoming the first commercial casino in Ohio.“We are planning for bedlam,” Rock Gaming principal Nate Forbes...
  
  
• [08-05-2012] Akron church to live beyond crumbled bricks, mortar
  
  While the structure of the former Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist came down Monday to make way for a McDonald’s and an office building, the reach of the church will continue. Pews from the sanctuary went to other...
  
  
• [04-05-2012] Officer's memorial park vandalized in Bloomfield
  
  A park dedicated in honor of a Pittsburgh police officer killed in the line of duty was vandalized Thursday night. Graffiti was spray-painted on several walls of the officer Paul Scuillo Memorial Park. Scuillo and two other officers, Eric...
  
  
• [03-05-2012] Target 11 investigates mysterious death of popular Pittsburgh bartender
  
  For more than a decade, Margie Walls of Uniontown has been searching for answers in her daughter's death. Thirty-three-year old Jamie Stickle was found dead in her burning Jeep just outside of her apartment on the North Side near the 16th...