Good morning! Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up in Ohio. Questions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to the AP Columbus bureau at 614-885-2727 or [email protected] Lisa Cornwell is on the desk. Andrew Welsh-Huggins, interim AP Ohio news editor, can be reached at 800-762-4841 or 614-885-2727 or [email protected]
A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories and digests will keep you up to date. All times are Eastern.
Some TV and radio stations will receive shorter APNewsNow versions of the stories below, along with all updates.
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TOP STORIES
CAMPAIGN 2016-IMMIGRATION
AKRON — Dean Green supports Donald Trump partly because of the GOP presidential nominee’s tough, deport-them-all stance on illegal immigration, but he adds that he doesn’t want to families separated. It has been 30 years since the country embarked on an immigration overhaul, and the ambivalence of voters like Green is one reason why. By Nicholas Riccardi and Bill Barrow. SENT: 850 words.
HEROIN OVERDOSES-CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI — Authorities are still trying to find the source of drugs that have resulted in a stunning wave of overdoses this week in Cincinnati. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 250 words by noon.
EAST CLEVELAND MERGER
CLEVELAND — The head of Cleveland’s City Council is rejecting a merger proposal coming from the city council in one of Ohio’s poorest cities, saying the bid has too many conditions including one that would keep all current East Cleveland council members employed. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 250 words by 1 p.m.
IN BRIEF:
— SEVERE WEATHER: The National Weather Service says four tornadoes touched down in one western Ohio county during a storm that moved across Indiana and Ohio.
— STATE TROOPERS CONTRACT: Ohio troopers would get raises for the first time since 2008 under a new contract that has been approved by their union and awaits review by a panel that oversees state spending.
— OFFICER DRAGGED-TRAFFIC STOP: A 29-year-old northeast Ohio man has been sentenced to seven years behind bars after he admitted to dragging an officer for two blocks while fleeing a traffic stop.
— MEDICAL MARIJUANA-OHIO MORATORIUM: An Ohio city is pushing forward with a medical marijuana moratorium ahead of the state’s forthcoming medical marijuana program.
— GUN REGISTRY-CLEVELAND: A judge has upheld a law that requires Cleveland residents newly convicted of gun offenses to register with the police department, though a few provisions were knocked down in the ruling issued this week.
— EX OSU PLAYER-EXTORTION: A quadriplegic man who admitted to trying to extort money from former Ohio State star and NFL player Christopher “Beanie” Wells has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after a judge concluded that imprisoning the defendant would be too costly for taxpayers.
— TEAM FORFEITS-SUSPENSIONS: A high school near Cleveland is forfeiting its football season opener after suspending several players.
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BC-OH-Ohio News Coverage Advisory 8:30 am, OH


CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials in several states are scrambling to deal with a series of heroin overdose outbreaks affecting dozens of people and involving at least six deaths.
The spikes in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia over the past few days have seen rescue workers rushing from scene to scene to provide overdose antidote drugs.
While it’s unclear if one dealer or batch is responsible for the multistate outbreak, the spikes reflect the potency of heroin flooding the Midwest.
In Cincinnati, police on Friday asked for the public’s help in identifying the source of the heroin behind an estimated 78 overdoses in two days.
Officials in surrounding Hamilton County are calling the latest onslaught of overdose cases a public health emergency. County Health Commissioner Tim Ingram said the number of emergency room incidents over the last six days was “unprecedented.”
Emergency rooms estimate they had 174 suspected opioid overdose cases this week, including three deaths. Last year, accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in Ohio, an average of eight per day, state officials said.
A record high 47,055 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That was up 7 percent from the year before, spurred by large increases in heroin and opioid painkiller deaths.
The spikes in overdoses might be much worse without naloxone, a now widely available overdose antidote that many first responders such as firefighters carry. In Ohio alone, emergency medical personnel last year administered nearly 19,800 doses of naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan.
In Mount Sterling, Kentucky, one person died following a series of 12 heroin overdoses that occurred within hours of each other on Wednesday. Most of the victims were in their 30s or 40s, said Jeff Jackson, battalion chief for the Montgomery County Fire Department.
In Huntington, West Virginia, an Ohio man was charged with heroin distribution in connection with 27 drug overdoses in a few hours last week, a federal prosecutor said Friday.
Bruce Lamar Griggs was arrested after the Aug. 15 spate of overdoses clustered around an apartment complex in Huntington, a city of 49,000 residents already badly battered by drug abuse and overdoses. He made an initial court appearance Thursday in Ohio and will be transported to West Virginia. A message left with his public defender in Ohio was not immediately returned.
In southeastern Indiana, Jennings County Sheriff Gary Driver said a wave of drug overdoses Tuesday killed one person and left 14 hospitalized.
In Cincinnati, City Manager Harry Black said authorities suspect carfentanil, a drug used to sedate elephants, may be mixed in with heroin and causing the overdoses. The drug is 100 times more potent than fentanyl, which is suspected in spates of overdoses in several states.
Last month, carfentanil was discovered in the Cincinnati area’s heroin stream, but many hospitals don’t have the equipment to test blood for it.
In Hamilton County, officials say they will seek funding for treatment and expanded response teams. Each team would include a law enforcement officer, an emergency responder and a specialist who could treat people who’ve overdosed, County Commissioner Dennis Deters said.
The Addiction Services Council of Cincinnati noted that the city doesn’t have enough places to treat the rising number of drug users who seek help.
“People overwhelmingly want help,” council facilitator Nan Franks said. “But we have to have a place to take them.”

Dozens treated as heroin overdose spikes hit several states


DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of two nuns in Mississippi (all times local):
1:30 a.m.
Authorities say they have charged a 46-year-old man in connection with the killing of two nuns who were killed in Mississippi,
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement Friday night that Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68.
Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan says “Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation.”
Sanders is being held in an undisclosed detention center awaiting his initial court appearance.
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3:45 p.m.
Services have been scheduled for two nuns who were killed in Mississippi.
The bodies of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
The Catholic Diocese of Jackson says a wake will be held Sunday at St. Thomas Church in Lexington. A memorial Mass is scheduled Monday at the Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle in Jackson.
The diocesan chancellor, Mary Woodward, says the memorial service will be “an opportunity for the diocesan community and friends to celebrate the lives of these two remarkable women.”
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3:10 p.m.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has increased the reward by $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the deaths of two nuns.
Sister Paula Merrill and Sister Margaret Held were found dead Thursday in their homes in Durant. Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
The Holmes County Crime Stoppers chapter had initially put up $2,500, so the total reward money is now $22,500.
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2 p.m.
The sister of a nun who was killed in rural Mississippi says her sister was called to “serve the underserved.”
Rosemarie Merrill on Friday described her sister Paula and the second nun who was killed with her, Margaret Held, as generous women who would give you the shirt off their backs.
Both women were found dead Thursday.
Rosemarie Merrill says her sister moved to Mississippi in 1981. For a time when she lived in Holly Springs, Mississippi she would ride around town on a moped. She was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in the town while she was there.
The clinic where the women worked served underinsured and uninsured people in the poorest county in the state.
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1:30 p.m.
A minister in Mississippi says a memorial Mass will be held for two Catholic nuns were found slain inside their home.
Father Greg Plata said Friday that the nuns, Sister Paula Merrill and Sister Margaret Held, had led Bible study for years at St. Thomas Catholic Church. He says Held will be buried in Wisconsin and Merrill will be buried at her congregation’s headquarters in Nazareth, Kentucky.
He says the sisters’ work as nurses dignified the poor.
Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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12 p.m.
People in the Mississippi community where two nuns were killed say they are having a hard time finding forgiveness, even though that’s what the sisters would have wanted.
Joe Morgan Jr. says he was a patient of Sister Paula Merrill and last saw her about four months ago.
Morgan went to Lexington Medical Clinic where the sisters worked as nurses on Friday in hopes of talking to grieving staff members, but a handwritten sign in the front door says the clinic is closed until Monday.
Morgan says the nuns would’ve wanted him to forgive whoever killed them, but right now he doesn’t have any forgiveness. Also slain was Sister Margaret Held. Both nuns were 68.
Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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9:45 a.m.
Authorities say autopsies are being done on two nuns who were found slain in their Mississippi home.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said the autopsies would be done Friday on Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. The women were nurses who were found in their home Thursday when they didn’t show up for work at a clinic that helps poor people.
Authorities have said they found a car that was missing from their home and towed it to a crime lab for analysis. Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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3 a.m.
Friends say two nuns who were found slain in their Mississippi home “would do anything for anybody.”
Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill were found dead Thursday morning when they didn’t report to work at the nearby clinic where they provided flu shots, insulin and other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the Lexington Medical Clinic, says he’s not sure what will happen to the facility in light of their deaths.
Authorities didn’t release a cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the nuns were stabbed. Their bodies were taken to a state crime lab for autopsies.

The Latest: Services set for nuns killed in Mississippi


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A panel of state lawmakers is examining whether Ohio’s unemployment benefits system is sustainable and whether any solvency issues need to be addressed.
The committee of six appointed Republicans and two appointed Democrats was recently created after a bill aimed at resolving the system’s challenges stalled in the legislature.
The Unemployment Compensation Reform Joint Committee held its first of five hearings on Thursday.
The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2bUwzM1 ) that state and independent analysts have long advised lawmakers that Ohio’s system was structurally imbalanced, failing to accrue enough reserves during times of low unemployment to cover benefits during recessions. Ohio, like other states, was forced to borrow from a federal loan fund to keep paying benefits during the economic downturn that began in 2007. The state has yet to pay off its debt.
Bruce Madson, assistant director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, told the joint committee at its Thursday meeting that the state could again have to borrow money to pay the jobless benefits should another economic decline arise.
“Even a small recession could render us insolvent,” Madson told lawmakers.
Madson said options to address the issue could include raising employer taxes, levying a surcharge on businesses, or freezing or lowering benefit amounts. Other possibilities include lengthening benefit wait periods or shortening the amount of time benefits can be received.
Eligible workers who lose their job through no fault of their own can get up to 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. To qualify, they must have earned a minimum weekly amount for 20 weeks. This year, that’s $243 a week.
Republican legislative leaders have said they hope to pass a reform bill when the General Assembly returns after the Nov. 8 election.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that the committee was recently created this year, not last year.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

State agency proposes reform to unemployment benefits system


Hello! Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up in Ohio. Questions about coverage plans are welcome and should be directed to the AP Columbus bureau at 614-885-2727 or [email protected] Kantele Franko is on the desk. Andrew Welsh-Huggins, interim news editor, can be reached at 800-762-4841 or 614-885-2727 or [email protected]
A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories and digests will keep you up to date. All times are Eastern.
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UPCOMING SATURDAY:
BACK TO SCHOOL-QUICKER LAW DEGREE
BEXLEY — Aja Miyamoto strolls into social functions now at the Capital University Law School like she’s one of the club. As a matter of fact, though Miyamoto is still a 19-year-old sophomore, she is. Through a special program, Miyamoto will earn both her bachelor’s and law degrees in a combined six years, rather than the usual seven. During the fourth year of her undergraduate education, she’ll take first-year law school courses designed to count toward both degrees, allowing her to trim a year — and an estimated roughly $30,000 — off the two-degree sequence. By Julie Carr Smyth. UPCOMING: 600 words by 3 p.m., photo.
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TOP STORIES:
HEROIN OVERDOSES-SUDDEN SPIKES
CINCINNATI — Officials in several states, including Ohio, are scrambling to deal with a series of heroin overdose outbreaks affecting dozens of people and involving at least six deaths. SENT: 570 words.
WITH:
HEROIN OVERDOSES-SUDDEN SPIKES-THE LATEST.
CAMPAIGN 2016-IMMIGRATION
AKRON — Dean Green supports Donald Trump partly because of the GOP presidential nominee’s tough, deport-them-all stance on illegal immigration, but he adds that he doesn’t want to families separated. It has been 30 years since the country embarked on an immigration overhaul, and the ambivalence of voters like Green is one reason why. By Nicholas Riccardi and Bill Barrow. SENT: 850 words.
EAST CLEVELAND MERGER
CLEVELAND — The head of Cleveland’s City Council is rejecting a merger proposal coming from the city council in one of Ohio’s poorest cities, saying the bid has too many conditions including one that would keep all current East Cleveland council members employed. SENT: 270 words.
EXCHANGE-AUCTION IN MEMORIAM
MANSFIELD — Walker Ramsay couldn’t make it to the Richland County fair this year, but his spirit was alive and well during the Aug. 13 livestock auction. The 17-year-old Crestview Future Farmers of America member had been raising a hog for the fair before he died unexpectedly of a seizure in his sleep May 29. By Courtney Day. Mansfield News Journal. SENT: 400 words, photo.
IN BRIEF:
— SEVERE WEATHER: The National Weather Service says four tornadoes touched down in one western Ohio county during a storm that moved across Indiana and Ohio.
— STATE TROOPERS CONTRACT: Ohio troopers would get raises for the first time since 2008 under a new contract that has been approved by their union and awaits review by a panel that oversees state spending.
— OFFICER DRAGGED-TRAFFIC STOP: A 29-year-old northeast Ohio man has been sentenced to seven years behind bars after he admitted dragging an officer for two blocks while fleeing a traffic stop.
— GUN REGISTRY-CLEVELAND: A judge has upheld a law that requires Cleveland residents newly convicted of gun offenses to register with the police department, though a few provisions were knocked down in the ruling issued this week.
— MEDICAL MARIJUANA-OHIO MORATORIUM: An Ohio city is pushing forward with a medical marijuana moratorium ahead of the state’s forthcoming medical marijuana program.
— EX OSU PLAYER-EXTORTION: A quadriplegic man who admitted to trying to extort money from former Ohio State star and NFL player Christopher “Beanie” Wells has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after a judge concluded that imprisoning the defendant would be too costly for taxpayers.
— TEAM FORFEITS-SUSPENSIONS: A high school near Cleveland is forfeiting its football season opener after suspending several players.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities in the Cincinnati area said Monday that an unprecedented spike of drug overdoses seem to be leveling off, although still at higher than normal levels, after a stunning wave last week.
Newtown Police Chief Thomas Synan, who heads the Hamilton County Drug Coalition task force, said reports show heroin overdoses dropped to 10 to 15 a day over the weekend. Just Friday, emergency rooms reported 174 overdose cases over six days, for an average of 29 per day, although Synan said some likely were not from heroin. But he said 20 to 25 overdoses in a week would be more typical.
“We’re not seeing anything like we did last week, but it’s still a little elevated,” he said.
He said authorities have samples of heroin that was being sold and they will test it, hoping to determine the source. They suspect it was mixed with another drug, such as the powerful painkiller fentanyl or the elephant tranquilizer carfentanil.
“I think it shows the callousness of those who are dealing this drug,” Synan said. “They do not care about the person they are selling to, they do not care about the communities they affect.”
Communities in the neighboring states of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia also saw overdose spikes last week. Meanwhile, Tennessee state officials on Monday urged increased public awareness of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s also being mixed with other drugs or as cheap counterfeits, and the increased risk of overdoses and fatalities.
Ohio health authorities reported last week that fentanyl helped fuel a record number of overdoses in 2015, when accidental drug overdoses killed 3,050 people in the state. A record high of 47,055 people died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014, according to the latest figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overdose death tolls likely would be even worse without naloxone, a now widely available overdose antidote that many first responders carry. In Ohio alone, emergency medical personnel last year administered nearly 19,800 doses of naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan.
The state pharmacy board said Monday that 1,000 Ohio pharmacies, or about 47 percent of them, now offer the overdose antidote naloxone without a prescription. Expanding access to it beyond emergency responders has been a major part of Ohio’s strategy to curb the increasing overdoses and deaths.
However, authorities say use of fentanyl, which the CDC says is 50 to 100 times more potent that morphine, and even-stronger carfentanil, makes reviving users more difficult. Cincinnati first responders used multiple Narcan doses to save some users last week.
Authorities said three to five deaths are believed connected to the overdose wave last week in the Cincinnati area.
Synan praised “astonishing work” by Cincinnati firefighters and other first responders for saving as many people as they did during an exhausting wave, while adding there are rarely any calm days in the anti-drug effort.
“This has been an event, a spike,” Synan said. “But this is a continual battle that we have every single day throughout the region.”
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Associated Press writer Kantele Franko in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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Unprecedented overdose spike slows in Cincinnati


CLEVELAND (AP) _ These Ohio lotteries were drawn Thursday:
08-30-35-36-42, Lucky Ball: 7
(eight, thirty, thirty-five, thirty-six, forty-two; Lucky Ball: seven)
Estimated jackpot: $76 million
0-4-0
(zero, four, zero)
4-9-5
(four, nine, five)
3-0-5-2
(three, zero, five, two)
7-8-0-0
(seven, eight, zero, zero)
7-7-6-2-7
(seven, seven, six, two, seven)
7-6-0-9-7
(seven, six, zero, nine, seven)
Estimated jackpot: $142 million
03-06-08-31-38
(three, six, eight, thirty-one, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $110,000


HAVANA (AP) — The commander of Colombia’s biggest rebel movement said Sunday its fighters will permanently cease hostilities with the government beginning with the first minute of Monday, as a result of their peace accord ending one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
Rodrigo Londono, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, made the announcement in Havana, where the two sides negotiated for four years before announcing the peace deal Wednesday.
“Never again will parents be burying their sons and daughters killed in the war,” said Londono, who also known as Timoshenko. “All rivalries and grudges will remain in the past.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Friday that his military would cease attacks on the FARC beginning Monday.
Colombia is expected to hold a national referendum Oct. 2 to give voters the chance to approve the deal for ending a half-century of political violence that has claimed more than 220,000 lives and driven more than 5 million people from their homes
After the agreement is signed, FARC guerrillas are supposed to begin handing their weapons over to United Nations-sponsored monitors.

FARC sets permanent cease-fire under Colombia peace deal


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A relative of a Civil War soldier who was misidentified when he was buried at a cemetery more than a century ago has asked officials to correct the mistake.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2bzX8Ji ) reports that Confederate soldier Augustus Beckmann was fatally wounded in the Battle of Shiloh on April 7, 1862. But he was buried at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus under the wrong name, A. Bergman, and company.
Beckmann’s brother’s great-great-grandson, Greg Beckman, discovered the error when he visited Camp Chase last Memorial Day with his son. He put together the necessary documentation and asked the National Cemetery Administration to fix the headstone. He recently learned that the change had been approved.
A spokeswoman for the administration says approved stones are typically in place within 60 days.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com

Headstone of Civil War soldier to be fixed after 154 years


CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the Ohio Lottery’s “Pick 5 Evening” game were:
7-7-6-2-7
(seven, seven, six, two, seven)

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 5 Evening’ game


WELLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a man has been charged in the death of a woman who was hit by a vehicle and killed in Ohio.
Lorain County sheriff’s deputies say 61-year-old Gregg Box was charged Monday on counts including aggravated vehicular homicide. The 38-year-old woman was hit Sunday night in northeast Ohio near the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington. She died at a hospital. Authorities didn’t immediately release the woman’s identity.
Oberlin Municipal Court records don’t show an attorney for the Strongsville man.
Police say witnesses told them the vehicle that hit the woman was seen leaving the fairgrounds. Deputies say the suspect’s vehicle hit a mailbox a short time later. The State Highway Patrol then stopped Box after a third crash.

Man charged in fatal hit-and-run in northeast Ohio


CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati officials say they plan to hire 40 new fire recruits next year after winning a $6.5 million federal grant.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency told the city on Friday that it had won a Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant.
The city says the additional staffing will ensure all fire stations will stay fully staffed. The award also covers the salaries and benefits for the first two years of their employment.
There are no matching funds with the grant.
About $400,000 has been included in the city’s 2017 operating budget to pay for extra costs associated with the new hires, including uniforms, testing, books and other training equipment.
An emergency ordinance request to accept and appropriate the grant funds must still be authorized.

Cincinnati awarded $6.5M grant, to hire 40 fire recruits


WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.
The department has so far released about half of the schedules. Its lawyers said in a phone conference with the AP’s lawyers that the department now expects to release the last of the detailed schedules around Dec. 30, weeks before the next president is inaugurated.
The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.
The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
The AP’s reporting was based on official calendars covering Clinton’s entire term plus the more-detailed daily schedules covering roughly half her time as secretary of state. The AP first asked for Clinton’s calendars in 2010 and again in 2013. It then sued the State Department in federal court to obtain the detailed schedules, and the department so far has provided about half of them under court order.
Clinton has said the AP’s analysis was flawed because it did not account fully for all meetings and phone calls during her entire term as secretary. She also said the analysis should have included meetings with federal employees and foreign diplomats. The AP said it focused on her meetings with outsiders because those were more discretionary, as Clinton would normally meet with federal officials and foreign officials as part of her job.
Clinton said she met with people outside government regardless of whether they gave money or charitable commitments to her family’s charity.
“These are people I would be proud to meet with, as any secretary of state would have been proud to meet with, to hear about their work and their insights,” Clinton said this week on CNN.
With the foundation drawing continued attention, Clinton promised Friday to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with the charity should she win the White House.
The foundation issue, along with continued focus on her use of a private email server, has dogged Clinton politically throughout the week, drawing strong criticism from opponent Donald Trump.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller released a statement Friday night saying: “It is unacceptable that the State Department is now refusing to release her official schedule before the election in full. Voters deserve to know the truth before they cast their ballots.”
Former President Bill Clinton said last week that if she is elected president, the foundation will no longer accept foreign or corporate donations.
The State Department is now estimating there are about 2,700 pages of schedules left. Under its process, it is reviewing and censoring them page-by-page to remove personal details such as private phone numbers or email addresses. In some cases it has censored names of people who met privately with Clinton or the subjects they discussed.
A State Department spokeswoman, Elizabeth Trudeau, declined to discuss the ongoing case and noted the agency is struggling with thousands of public records requests.
In court, the AP in December had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to order the State Department to produce specific percentages of the remaining schedules every 30 days under a formula so that all would be released before the presidential primary elections were complete.
Instead, because the State Department said it did not know how many pages were left, Leon ordered it in January to release at least 600 pages of schedules every 30 days. Each 600-page group covers about three months of Clinton’s tenure.
Under the present rate, a government attorney working on behalf of the State Department notified the AP’s lawyers, it will take about four and one-half months — or until Dec. 30 — to release all the remaining schedules through the end of Clinton’s term, in February 2013. The government’s notice late Thursday was the first time the State Department has provided the AP with a measure of how many pages were remaining and when it expected to complete the job.
It was unclear whether the judge will reconsider his earlier decision and order faster results. In the AP’s lawsuit over other Clinton-related files, Leon has said it would be “ridiculous” to allow the State Department to delay until even weeks before the election. He also cited “mounting frustration that this is a project where the State Department may be running out the clock.”

US: Clinton calendars won’t be released until after election


Associated Press Ohio Daybook for Friday, Aug. 26.
The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover.
Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Columbus bureau is reachable at 614-885-2727. Send daybook items to [email protected]
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NEW EVENT: Friday, Aug. 26 11:15 AM Kentucky Secretary of State Grimes campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Ohio – Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Ohio, joining Ohio women to ‘celebrate and discuss Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination and her lifelong commitment to fighting for women’s rights’ with a Delaware Women for Hillary Policy Chat at Delaware Dems HQ, 12 1/2 North Sandusky Street, Delaware (11:15 AM EDT); and with a Women of Cincinnati For Hillary Event at 3416 Brookline Avenue, Cincinnati (4:45 PM EDT)
Location: Cincinnati Delaware www.hillaryclinton.com https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton
Contacts: Laura Zapata Hillary for America, Ohio [email protected] 1 901 337 4221
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NEW EVENT: Friday, Aug. 26 1:45 PM Dayton Region Military Collaborative announces new Hometown Heroes event – Dayton Region Military Collaborative announces new Hometown Heroes event planned for 15 Sept, 2016
Location: Fraze Pavilion, 695 Lincoln Park Blvd, Kettering, OH www.wpafb.af.mil
Contacts: 88th Air Base Wing Office of Public Affairs 1 937 522 3252
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NEW EVENT: Friday, Aug. 26 2:45 PM GOP Sen. Rob Portman holds event to wrap up his ‘Moving Ohio Forward’ Summer RV Tour – Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is running for re-election, holds event to wrap up his ‘Moving Ohio Forward’ Summer RV Tour, which made ’50 stops across 30 counties and covered over 3,500 miles in the span of two weeks’
Location: 614 Wooster Pike Terrace Park, OH www.robportman.com
Contacts: Michawn Rich Portman for Senate [email protected] 1 775 240 8539
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UPDATED EVENT: Friday, Aug. 26 – Thursday, Sep. 01 The American Legion National Convention – The American Legion National Convention. Speakers over the weeklong event include 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (31 Aug) and Republican nominee Donald Trump (1 Sep)
Location: Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati www.legion.org https://twitter.com/AmericanLegion
Contacts: The American Legion press [email protected] 1 317 630 1253
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Friday, Aug. 26 8:00 AM Big Lots: Q2 2016 Earning conference call / Webcast
Location: TBD http://www.biglotscorporate.com/investor/index.asp https://twitter.com/BigLots
Contacts: Andrew D. Regrut Big Lots Investor Relations [email protected] 1 614 278 6622
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Friday, Aug. 26 9:00 AM Warren County Transportation Improvement District Board meeting
Location: Warren County Engineer’s Office, 210 W Main Street, Lebanon, OH http://www.co.warren.oh.us/County/Default.aspx
Contacts: Savannah Shafer Warren County Public Relations [email protected] 1 513 695 3302
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Friday, Aug. 26 10:30 AM BGSU president delivers State of the University address – Bowling Green State University President Mary Ellen Mazey delivers 2016 State of the University Address, discussing the University’s ‘strategic plan, recent accomplishments, and priorities and goals for the coming year’
Location: Donnell Theatre, 1300 Ridge St, Bowling Green, OH Bowling Green http://www.bgsu.edu/ https://twitter.com/bgsu
Contacts: Amber Stark BGSU [email protected] 1 419 372 8582
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Friday, Aug. 26 11:30 AM Annual United Negro College Fund Mayor’s Luncheon – Annual United Negro College Fund Mayor’s Luncheon, featuring keynote speaker Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley
Location: Charity Early Auditorium, 444 W 3rd St, Dayton, OH Dayton http://www.uncf.org/ https://twitter.com/UNCF
Contacts: UNCF 1 614 221 5309
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Friday, Aug. 26 2:00 PM Ohio state Rep. Steve Hambley and state Sen. Larry Obhof host joint office hours
Location: Brunswick Public Library, 3649 Center Road, Brunswick, OH http://www.ohiohouse.gov
Contacts: Brandon Sagraves Ohio House of Representatives [email protected] 1 614 466 8140
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Friday, Aug. 26 Big Lots: Q2 2016 Results
Location: TBD http://www.biglotscorporate.com/investor/index.asp https://twitter.com/BigLots
Contacts: Andrew D. Regrut Big Lots Investor Relations [email protected] 1 614 278 6622
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NEW EVENT: Saturday, Aug. 27 10:00 AM FCCS and Columbus Mayor Ginther host ‘FamJam – A Family Enrichment Festival’ – Franklin County Children Services and Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther host eight annual ‘FamJam – A Family Enrichment Festival’
Location: Genoa Park, 303 W Broad St, Columbus, OH Columbus http://childrenservices.franklincountyohio.gov/ https://twitter.com/FCCSnews
Contacts: Franklin County Children Services [email protected] 1 614 275 2780
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NEW EVENT: Saturday, Aug. 27 2:30 PM Columbus City Councilmember Michael Stinziano holds Community Hours
Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, 3980 S. Hamilton Road, Groveport, OH Columbus http://www.columbus.gov/ https://twitter.com/ColumbusCouncil
Contacts: Stephanie Megas City of Columbus 1 614 645 8311
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NEW EVENT: Sunday, Aug. 28 1:00 PM Interfaith Association of Central Ohio 24th Annual Main Event Luncheon
Location: Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH Columbus http://iaco.org/
Contacts: Interfaith Association of Central Ohio [email protected] 1 614 849 0290
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NEW EVENT: Sunday, Aug. 28 – Wednesday, Aug. 31 American Probation and Parole Association Annual Training Institute
Location: Cleveland, OH Cleveland http://www.appa-net.org
Contacts: Diane Kincaid APPA press [email protected] 1 859 244 8196
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Keywords: Daybook, Ohio


CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the Ohio Lottery’s “Pick 4 Evening” game were:
3-0-5-2
(three, zero, five, two)

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 4 Evening’ game


CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the Ohio Lottery’s “Pick 3 Evening” game were:
0-4-0
(zero, four, zero)

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 3 Evening’ game


BERLIN (AP) — The mysterious disappearance of a Swedish count reputed to have had an affair with the wife of George Ludwig of Hannover, later King George I of Great Britain, may soon be solved.
German authorities are planning to test DNA taken from human remains found beneath Hannover’s Leine Palace earlier this month to determine whether they belong to Count Philipp Christoph von Koenigsmarck.
German news agency dpa quoted Hannover prosecutor Thomas Klinge saying Friday that determining the identity and the cause of death may confirm whether von Koenigsmarck was murdered when he vanished without a trace on July 1, 1694.
The alleged affair between the dashing young soldier and Sophie Dorothea of Celle prompted the future George I to divorce her the same year. She was imprisoned until her death in 1726.

Germany: DNA test could help solve mystery of missing count


LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two defendants became the first to plead guilty Thursday to federal charges in an armed confrontation with U.S. officials over grazing rights near cattleman and open-range advocate Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada.
Gerald “Jerry” DeLemus and Blaine Cooper each admitted to conspiring with others who engaged in a tense gunpoint standoff with federal Bureau of Land Management agents in April 2014 near Bundy’s property about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Both told U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro they weren’t physically present for the standoff.
But they acknowledged interfering with the execution of federal court orders by recruiting and organizing armed gunmen to support Bundy and sons Ammon, Ryan, Mel and Dave Bundy in efforts to prevent the roundup of Bundy cattle from the scenic Gold Butte area.
Their plea deals call for sentences of six years in federal prison, although their defense attorneys can seek leniency at sentencing Dec. 1. Each also could be fined up to $500,000 and be subject to up to three years of government supervision after prison.
Cooper, 37, from Humboldt, Arizona, also pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
DeLemus, 61, of Rochester, New Hampshire, arrived in Nevada hours after the confrontation started. His second felony plea was to an interstate extortion charge, admitting he drove cross-country with guns with an intent to display “force and aggression” to stop the roundup.
DeLemus, a former U.S. Marine, spent weeks afterward living in a tent and organizing armed patrols near the Bundy ranch outside Bunkerville.
DeLemus was also politically active at home in New Hampshire, where his wife, Susan DeLemus, is a Republican state assemblywoman. He stopped several times Thursday to confer with his attorney while entering his guilty pleas.
“I don’t know that I threatened anyone,” DeLemus told the judge at one point, “but I made public statements hoping it would end peacefully.”
Prosecutors characterized DeLemus and Cooper as “mid-level organizers” and leaders of the conspiracy to prevent federal agents and contract cowboys from rounding up Bundy cattle that federal officials said were trespassing on public land.
“Federal law enforcement officers must be able to engage in their official duties, including executing federal court orders, without fear of assault or losing their lives,” U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said in a statement after the pleas.
DeLemus and Cooper became the first among 19 defendants to take plea deals in the case in Las Vegas.
Trial for some of the remaining 17 defendants is scheduled to begin Feb. 2 on charges including threatening a federal officer, carrying a firearm in a crime of violence and obstruction.
Seven defendants in the Nevada case, including Cooper and Bundy’s sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are also among 26 people charged in Portland, Oregon, in connection with a 41-day occupation of a wildlife refuge earlier this year.
Eleven people have taken plea deals in the Oregon case, including Cooper. The Oregon trial is scheduled to begin next month.

2 men in Nevada standoff case plead guilty in federal court


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Republicans are pulling the gloves off to retain Rob Portman in one of the most competitive, expensive Senate races this year.
That means revisiting more of rival Ted Strickland’s time as governor, which is already featured in ads filling Ohio airwaves.
Included in a new web ad campaign is a largely forgotten 2010 scandal involving prison workers at the Governor’s Residence that all but evaporated when Democrat Strickland lost re-election.
The GOP campaign is also revisiting a controversy over Strickland’s use of state-issued airplanes to shuttle him short distances in Columbus.
State Republican chair Matt Borges says the scandals highlight Strickland’s incompetence as governor.
Strickland spokesman David Bergstein says the prison program’s problems went back decades and Republicans are distracting from Portman’s agenda benefiting the rich and powerful.

GOP to revisit 2010 sting in anti-Strickland web push


VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting was “how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need.”
The atmosphere appeared informal, with the chat taking place in the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives.
Zuckerberg wore a dark suit and tie for the occasion while Chan wore a black, knee-length dress.

Pope Francis chats in person with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg


Major national Democratic political groups are canceling ad spending in the Ohio Senate race as Democratic former Gov. Ted Strickland fails to get traction against incumbent Republican Sen. Rob Portman in the critical swing state.
The Senate Majority PAC, Strickland’s single largest source of outside support, has spent $10 million on the former governor’s behalf but is now canceling major buys set to run the second week of September, according to an official with knowledge of the developments who requested anonymity because the information was not public.
That follows a similar move by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the same time frame, as reported by the Washington Post.
In both cases the groups are delaying their ad spending, not pulling out entirely, and could readjust and decide to invest more in the race. However, the developments clearly signal Democratic unease with the state of affairs in Ohio, where Strickland has struggled and is getting outspent while Portman runs a strong and disciplined campaign for a second term.
“We regularly adjust strategy to maximize our resources and make sure we’re in the best possible position to win back the majority this November,” said Senate Majority PAC spokesman Shripal Shah.
Democratic woes in Ohio are all the more striking given that Hillary Clinton is slightly ahead of Donald Trump in most polls. Democrats viewed Ohio is a prime pickup opportunity in their quest to retake Senate control and celebrated luring Strickland into the race, but the aging former governor has run an underwhelming campaign.
Democrats can retake control of the Senate if they hang onto the White House and pick up four Senate seats.
Details of the cancellations by the Senate Majority PAC included $163,000 scheduled in Columbus from Sept. 6-19 and $23,000 in Dayton, the official said.

National Democratic groups delaying ads in Ohio Senate race


Thousands of people turned out to welcome gymnasts Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez back to their hometowns Saturday after they wowed the judges in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The two were on the gold-medal winning U.S. women’s gymnastics team, dubbed “The Final Five,” and also won individual medals.
In the Boston suburb of Needham, Massachusetts, a “Rally for Aly” was held for 22-year-old Raisman, who also won silver medals in the floor exercise and the individual all-around. Raisman arrived at the rally atop a fire truck and on Friday she threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Red Sox game.
The town also hosted a parade and rally for her when she returned from the 2012 Olympic games in London with two gold medals and a bronze medal.
In New Jersey, residents of Old Bridge staged an elaborate ceremony Saturday to honor Hernandez’s accomplishments. In addition to the team medal, she won an individual silver medal in the balance beam competition.
The 16-year-old took part in a motorcade that featured police, military members and gymnastics groups.
The event culminated with a ceremony at a school football field where residents packed the bleachers, many cheering and holding signs praising Hernandez’s efforts.

Olympic champions Raisman, Hernandez feted by hometowns


MENTOR, Ohio (AP) — A high school near Cleveland is forfeiting its football season opener after suspending several players.
Media outlets in Cleveland report the school has been investigating possible hazing during an overnight summer football camp in July.
Lake Catholic High School in Mentor confirms that it has forfeited its game against Toledo St. John’s Jesuit that had been scheduled for Saturday night.
The school says several players were suspended for one game. The school’s principal says in a letter that it won’t tolerate actions by students or staff members that are contrary to its values and character.
Most high schools around Ohio kick off the football season this weekend.

Cleveland-area team forfeits season opener after suspensions


DURANT, Miss. (AP) — A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, was arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said late Friday. Both women were 68.
Willie March, the sheriff of Holmes County where the killings occurred, said Saturday he had been briefed by police from the town where the killings occurred and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in Sanders’ interrogation.
Sanders confessed in the interrogation to the killings and gave no reason for the crimes, March said.
The sheriff said police work and tips from the community led police to Sanders, and the investigation is ongoing.
Durant police could not be reached for comment. Strain, whose department includes the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, said the organization would neither confirm nor deny that Sanders confessed.
Sanders was convicted last year of a felony DUI, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He was later released from prison and is currently on probation.
Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County, sentenced in 1986 and served six years, Fisher said.
People who knew the nuns, known for their generosity and commitment to improving health care for the poor, have been grappling with why anyone would want to kill them.
Dr. Elias Abboud, the physician who oversees the clinic in Lexington where the nuns worked, said Saturday that Sanders was not a patient there.
The Rev. Greg Plata, sacramental minister at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington where the women led Bible study for years, said Saturday he does not think people at the church knew Sanders.
The women’s bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work in Lexington, about 10 miles from where they lived.
The sheriff said they had been stabbed.
“Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation,” Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan said in the statement.
Authorities said Sanders was being held in an undisclosed detention center pending a court appearance. They have not given any details on why they think Sanders killed the women or whether he knew them.
Strain said he does not know if Sanders has an attorney. Authorities do not anticipate making any other arrests. Strain said “investigators believe Sanders acted alone.”
Merrill’s nephew, David Merrill, speaking by telephone from Stoneham, Massachusetts, said Saturday the family was “thankful” Sanders is off the streets.
But the family still has to deal with the loss.
Merrill said he agrees with the idea of forgiveness and that is something his aunt would want for whoever killed her but he’s not sure if he’s capable of completely forgiving.
Merrill said he would not support the death penalty if Sanders were to be convicted but that decision will ultimately be made by the people in Mississippi. The capital murder charge leaves open the possibility Sanders would face the death penalty but that determination would be made by prosecutors later.
The order Held belonged to — School Sisters of St. Francis — thanked law enforcement officers working on the case and thanked people who offered prayers and support in the wake of the sisters’ deaths.
In the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, many people were still mourning their loss.
Jonell Payton, a Durant alderwoman, lives across the street and a few doors down from Held and Merrill’s house. She said the nuns were “the most precious two people” and were known for helping provide medicine for those who couldn’t afford it.
Both women worked at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it.
Their stolen car was found abandoned a mile from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven’t disclosed a motive.
Plata said both nuns’ religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers. Asked about people’s struggles to forgive, the priest said: “Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian. Look at Jesus on the cross: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'”
The clinic and the nuns’ home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the Census Bureau.
The nuns’ death leaves a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
The clinic provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county, Abboud said.
Merrill’s sister Rosemarie, speaking by telephone from her Stoneham, Massachusetts, home, said her sister had been in Mississippi helping the poor since 1981.
Held — impressionable and idealistic — was committed to ending racism and poverty, according to an interview she did earlier with her order’s magazine.
“The invitation to come to Mississippi provided me with the setting in which I hoped to make a difference with my life. I came here because of a dream and a cause but I stayed here because of the people,” she said.
A former nun who knew Held said she had always been interested in working with the “poorest of the poor.”
Darlene Nicgorski said Saturday that she had recruited Held to come to Holly Springs, Mississippi, to work as a social worker in a program there that ran schools and offered day care to help young mothers finish school.
Nicgorski said the sisters’ deaths just don’t make sense. She said they would have given the suspect anything he needed.
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Santana reported from New Orleans. Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

Sheriff: Man confesses in killings of 2 Mississippi nuns


CLEVELAND (AP) — A set of 16 postcards from civil rights activist Malcolm X to a woman in Cleveland has been sold at auction for more than $56,000.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions says the handwritten cards from 1957, 1958 and 1964 went for $56,426.25 in Los Angeles last week.
The cards were written to Gloria Owens. She was the sister of Maceo X Owens, secretary at a Muhammad’s Temple of Islam in New York where Malcolm X preached alongside Louis Farrakhan.
The postcards feature landmarks and depictions of African-American life from Malcolm X’s U.S. and global travels. That included images that denigrated or stereotyped blacks. Sometimes he sent racist cartoons.
One note read: “Since I’ve seen what a mess can be made of things by narrow-minded people, I’m still traveling, trying to broaden my scope.”

Malcolm X postcards to Cleveland woman sell for $56,000


LONDON (AP) — Police and airline officials say two United Airlines pilots have been arrested for suspected intoxication before they were to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States.
United Airlines officials have confirmed Saturday’s arrest of the pilots, aged 45 and 35, at Glasgow Airport. The Police Service of Scotland says both men are expected to be arraigned Monday at a court in Paisley, a Glasgow suburb, to face charges connected to Britain’s transport safety laws.
United said Saturday’s flight from Glasgow to the U.S. city of Newark, New Jersey, was delayed for 10 hours while the airline sought replacement pilots.
Saturday’s arrests come barely a month after two Canadian pilots of an Air Transat plane were arrested at Glasgow Airport and charged with trying to fly while intoxicated.

2 United pilots suspected of being drunk arrested in Glasgow


NEW YORK (AP) — Has Colonel Sanders’ nephew inadvertently revealed to the world the secret blend of 11 herbs and spices behind KFC’s fried chicken empire?
The company says the recipe published in the Chicago Tribune is not authentic. But that hasn’t stopped rampant online speculation that one of the most legendary and closely guarded secrets in the history of fast food has been exposed.
It all started when a reporter visited with Joe Ledington, a nephew of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland David Sanders.
The reporter was working on a story for the Tribune’s travel section about Corbin, Kentucky, where the colonel served his first fried chicken. At one point, Ledington pulled out a family scrapbook containing the last will and testament of Sanders’ second wife, Claudia Ledington.
On the back of the document is a handwritten list for a blend of 11 herbs and spices to be mixed with two cups of white flour. While Joe Ledington initially told the reporter that it was the original recipe, he later said that he didn’t know for sure.
KFC — which is a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc. — calls its recipe “one of the biggest trade secrets in the world.” It says that the recipe the reporter saw is not the real thing.
“Many people have made these claims over the years and no one has been accurate — this one isn’t either,” KFC said in a statement.
The Louisville, Kentucky-based company says that the original recipe from 1940 handwritten by Sanders is locked up in a digital safe that’s encased in two feet of concrete and monitored 24 hours a day by a video and motion detection surveillance system.
Joe Ledington could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.

The colonel’s secret recipe revealed? Not so fast, says KFC


CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon’s drawing of the Ohio Lottery’s “Pick 5 Midday” game were:
4-1-6-5-1
(four, one, six, five, one)

Winning numbers drawn in ‘Pick 5 Midday’ game


DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of two nuns in Mississippi (all times local):
1:30 a.m.
Authorities say they have charged a 46-year-old man in connection with the killing of two nuns who were killed in Mississippi,
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement Friday night that Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko has been charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68.
Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan says “Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation.”
Sanders is being held in an undisclosed detention center awaiting his initial court appearance.
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3:45 p.m.
Services have been scheduled for two nuns who were killed in Mississippi.
The bodies of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
The Catholic Diocese of Jackson says a wake will be held Sunday at St. Thomas Church in Lexington. A memorial Mass is scheduled Monday at the Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle in Jackson.
The diocesan chancellor, Mary Woodward, says the memorial service will be “an opportunity for the diocesan community and friends to celebrate the lives of these two remarkable women.”
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3:10 p.m.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety has increased the reward by $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the deaths of two nuns.
Sister Paula Merrill and Sister Margaret Held were found dead Thursday in their homes in Durant. Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
The Holmes County Crime Stoppers chapter had initially put up $2,500, so the total reward money is now $22,500.
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2 p.m.
The sister of a nun who was killed in rural Mississippi says her sister was called to “serve the underserved.”
Rosemarie Merrill on Friday described her sister Paula and the second nun who was killed with her, Margaret Held, as generous women who would give you the shirt off their backs.
Both women were found dead Thursday.
Rosemarie Merrill says her sister moved to Mississippi in 1981. For a time when she lived in Holly Springs, Mississippi she would ride around town on a moped. She was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in the town while she was there.
The clinic where the women worked served underinsured and uninsured people in the poorest county in the state.
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1:30 p.m.
A minister in Mississippi says a memorial Mass will be held for two Catholic nuns were found slain inside their home.
Father Greg Plata said Friday that the nuns, Sister Paula Merrill and Sister Margaret Held, had led Bible study for years at St. Thomas Catholic Church. He says Held will be buried in Wisconsin and Merrill will be buried at her congregation’s headquarters in Nazareth, Kentucky.
He says the sisters’ work as nurses dignified the poor.
Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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12 p.m.
People in the Mississippi community where two nuns were killed say they are having a hard time finding forgiveness, even though that’s what the sisters would have wanted.
Joe Morgan Jr. says he was a patient of Sister Paula Merrill and last saw her about four months ago.
Morgan went to Lexington Medical Clinic where the sisters worked as nurses on Friday in hopes of talking to grieving staff members, but a handwritten sign in the front door says the clinic is closed until Monday.
Morgan says the nuns would’ve wanted him to forgive whoever killed them, but right now he doesn’t have any forgiveness. Also slain was Sister Margaret Held. Both nuns were 68.
Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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9:45 a.m.
Authorities say autopsies are being done on two nuns who were found slain in their Mississippi home.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said the autopsies would be done Friday on Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. The women were nurses who were found in their home Thursday when they didn’t show up for work at a clinic that helps poor people.
Authorities have said they found a car that was missing from their home and towed it to a crime lab for analysis. Authorities have not released a motive or cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
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3 a.m.
Friends say two nuns who were found slain in their Mississippi home “would do anything for anybody.”
Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill were found dead Thursday morning when they didn’t report to work at the nearby clinic where they provided flu shots, insulin and other medical care for children and adults who couldn’t afford it.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the Lexington Medical Clinic, says he’s not sure what will happen to the facility in light of their deaths.
Authorities didn’t release a cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the nuns were stabbed. Their bodies were taken to a state crime lab for autopsies.

The Latest: Man, 46, charged in deaths of 2 Mississippi nuns


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy each easily won their Senate primaries Tuesday, setting up a November showdown that’s guaranteed to be nasty as each party grapples for a majority in the chamber.
Rubio, who decided at the last second to seek a second term, easily fended off millionaire homebuilder Carlos Beruff and Murphy used the backing of President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders to defeat U.S. Rep Alan Grayson, who was counting on his party’s most faithful liberal voters to overcome Murphy’s money and establishment support.
In other races, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown lost a primary as she faces felony fraud charges. She was one of the first African-Americans elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who recently resigned as Democratic National Committee chair, won her primary — the first tough race since being elected to Congress in 2004.
Rubio’s and Murphy’s victory speeches set the tone for the Senate race.
“Marco Rubio is the worst of Washington because he puts himself first every time. He gave up on his job. He gave up on Florida. He earned the worst voting record for any Florida senator in 50 years,” Murphy said shortly after polls closed.
Rubio spoke about an hour later and said Murphy has lied about his education and his career and is only successful because of his wealthy father.
“How can someone with that kind of record think he can be elected to the U.S. Senate? The answer is he has a sense of entitlement, because when everything you’ve ever had in your life is given to you, you think you deserve it all,” Rubio said.
Rubio had declared during his failed presidential campaign that he would not run again for Senate. But he nearly cleared what had been a crowded GOP field with his last-minute turnabout.
Beruff rolled the dice to see if the anti-establishment mood powering Donald Trump’s presidential campaign could send him to Washington as well. But after spending $8 million of his own money and going nowhere in the polls, he essentially shut down his campaign ahead of the primary.
“I voted for Marco only because I’ve been a longstanding supporter,” said Diane Martin-Johnson, 66, after voting early Tuesday in Pinellas Park. “It’s unfortunate he didn’t do his job fully in Washington this term. I do think he deserves another chance. He thought he was doing the right thing (by running for president). That’s my only complaint against him. He’s a good man.”
Murphy, a former Republican, quickly earned party support and raised significantly more money. He was also backed by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Grayson, a fiery liberal known for brash comments and hamstrung by a difficult divorce, relied mostly on small donors and feuded with party leaders.
Todd Martin, 53, and his 18-year-old daughter Haley, voted together in Tallahassee, where they recently moved as she starts college. They both chose Murphy, in part because they like his efforts to get government to address algae outbreaks near their former home in Vero Beach.
“I grew up on the river and it’s a shame what they let happen,” Todd Martin said. “I like where Patrick Murphy stands on the algae. It’s very important to me.”
More than 1.75 million Floridians already cast ballots by mail or at early-voting stations before polls opened Tuesday.
This year’s primary turnout could top ones held in 2012 and 2014— a sign that competitive races for Congress and the Florida Legislature could be driving up turnout this time around.
Wasserman Schultz easily beat Tim Canova, a Bernie Sanders-backed law professor who was able to raise more than $3 million in a primary colored by leaked emails revealing that DNC officials had worked against Sanders to favor Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
Brown lost to longtime state lawmaker Al Lawson, who has previously run for Congress.
Democrats hope to gain seats in Florida’s heavily Republican House delegation after court-mandated redistricting chipped away the advantages of some incumbents.
Florida had to rip up and redraw its congressional maps after they were found to violate the state constitution’s provision requiring compact districts that don’t favor incumbents or political parties. That spurred one of the state’s most heavily contested congressional election years. Several races will essentially be decided in the primary and Florida will eventually send at least seven new House members to Washington.
Republicans now outnumber Democrats 17-10 in the state’s congressional delegation. If Democrats sweep all four seats seen as competitive in November, that Republican advantage could be reduced to 14-13.
One of those is now held by U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a Republican who was expected to win Tuesday, but who would then have to beat former Gov. Charlie Crist, who used to be a Republican but is now a Democrat.
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AP writers Tamara Lush in Pinellas County, Mike Schneider in Kissimmee and Terry Spencer in Palm Beach Gardens contributed to this report.

Rubio, Murphy win Florida’s Senate primaries


CLEVELAND (AP) — The head of Cleveland’s City Council is rejecting a merger proposal coming from the city council in one of Ohio’s poorest cities.
Cleveland council President Kevin Kelley says the proposal has too many conditions including one that would keep all current East Cleveland council members employed.
Officials in East Cleveland are exploring the idea of being annexed by neighboring Cleveland because it has gone years without being able to pay for basic services.
East Cleveland has struggled to pay city workers, fix its streets and plow snow.
Kelley tells Cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/2bLtFLc ) that he’s still open to the idea of a merger but not the one the proposed now.
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Information from: cleveland.com, http://www.cleveland.com

Cleveland council leader rejects merger proposal with suburb


CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the Ohio Lottery’s “Rolling Cash 5” game were:
03-06-08-31-38
(three, six, eight, thirty-one, thirty-eight)
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Children who escaped Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency now are dying of starvation in refugee camps in northeastern Nigeria’s largest city as the government investigates the theft of food aid by officials.
Refugees have staged near-daily protests over the past week. In one, women blocked the main highway linking Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, to Kano city for five hours, shouting that their children are starving and they have no drinking water as temperatures soar above 40 degrees (104 Fahrenheit).
Between 10 and 25 percent of children in a 110-bed feeding center are dying, said Doctors without Borders spokeswoman Shaista Aziz. She called that a high percentage even in an emergency. Most of the dying are from refugee camps, she said.
Dozens of babies and children with matchstick limbs and protruding rib cages fill the tents of the feeding center visited by The Associated Press.
Families cannot leave the camps, “so they are completely reliant on food distributions,” said Dr. Natalie Roberts, deputy emergency desk manager for the medical aid group.
Doctors without Borders’ therapeutic feeding program in Maiduguri, where the most malnourished children are treated, “has quadrupled in size in the last weeks, but each time it expands it becomes rapidly full,” Roberts said. In one local camp, Muna Garage, 20 children under the age of 5 died in a single week last month, she said.
At Farm Centre Camp, on Maiduguri’s outskirts, residents said they had received no food in more than one month. They and refugees at other camps said that when they do get meals, it consists only of rice and beans. They get one shovelful a day — literally delivered from a shovel — whether a household has six people or 12, they said.
Maiduguri is estimated to host 1.2 million to 2 million refugees but only a fraction stay in the camps because, as The Daily Trust newspaper reported Tuesday, “Most of the camps have become centers of hunger, malnutrition and communicable diseases.”
Nigeria’s Senate last week announced it was launching an investigation into allegations that food aid is being diverted, and the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission weeks ago said it was doing the same.
The governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, last week accused rival politicians of instigating the protests. Shettima has been publicly booed by refugees and residents, with some shouting “Rice thief!” when his convoy passes, several residents told the AP.
Shettima last week abruptly disbanded his government’s committee to feed refugees, which is supposed to provide cooked meals. Shettima’s office said refugees will now get food directly to cook themselves. That poses challenges, as the refugees will need charcoal for fires, cooking oil and clean water.
Angry refugees took to the streets to protest because of several deaths from starvation, said a spokesman for the refugees, Umar Abdulsalam.
“The camp officials have been restricting some of us who are strong from going out. We have been living as prisoners, and the food meant for our care is being sold in the open market,” he told a news conference, accusing government officials, camp officials and the military guarding the camps.
The camps are supposed to be run by the Borno state Emergency Management Agency.
Last week, local reporters and refugees watched as soldiers and local self-defense vigilantes shoved blankets and other aid meant for refugees at Dalori Camp into a tricycle taxi and took off.
Irish rock star Bono and Nigeria’s richest man, multibillionaire Aliko Dangote, visited Dalori on Sunday. A businessman who was there the day before said he watched a truckload of food aid arrive, wait and then leave with all the food. When he questioned a camp official, he was told the food could not be distributed until Bono and Dangote arrived. The businessman spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his government contracts.
The crisis in Maiduguri, where markets are filled with fresh vegetables and fruit, is in addition to what the U.N has called a “catastrophic humanitarian crisis” in northeastern areas of Nigeria recently liberated from Boko Haram, where 2.5 million malnourished people have no access to food and drinking water. Those areas are still dangerous to reach.

As refugee children die, Nigeria probes theft of food aid


Associated Press Ohio Daybook for Saturday, Aug. 27.
The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover.
Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Columbus bureau is reachable at 614-885-2727. Send daybook items to [email protected]
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Saturday, Aug. 27 8:30 AM Medina County Friends and Neighbors meeting, with Ohio Senate President Keith Faber
Location: Cherokee Hills Golf Course, 5740 Center Rd., Valley City, OH www.mcfan.org
Contacts: Lisa Woods Medina County Friends and Neighbors 1 330 241 5226
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Saturday, Aug. 27 10:00 AM FCCS and Columbus Mayor Ginther host ‘FamJam – A Family Enrichment Festival’ – Franklin County Children Services and Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther host eight annual ‘FamJam – A Family Enrichment Festival’
Location: Genoa Park, 303 W Broad St, Columbus, OH Columbus http://childrenservices.franklincountyohio.gov/ https://twitter.com/FCCSnews
Contacts: Franklin County Children Services [email protected] 1 614 275 2780
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Saturday, Aug. 27 2:30 PM Columbus City Councilmember Michael Stinziano holds Community Hours
Location: Columbus Metropolitan Library, 3980 S. Hamilton Road, Groveport, OH Columbus http://www.columbus.gov/ https://twitter.com/ColumbusCouncil
Contacts: Stephanie Megas City of Columbus 1 614 645 8311
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Sunday, Aug. 28 1:00 PM Interfaith Association of Central Ohio 24th Annual Main Event Luncheon
Location: Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH Columbus http://iaco.org/
Contacts: Interfaith Association of Central Ohio [email protected] 1 614 849 0290
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Sunday, Aug. 28 – Wednesday, Aug. 31 American Probation and Parole Association Annual Training Institute
Location: Cleveland, OH Cleveland http://www.appa-net.org
Contacts: Diane Kincaid APPA press [email protected] 1 859 244 8196
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Monday, Aug. 29 10:00 AM OHROC and Ohio GOP highlight Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek’s ‘accomplishments in the House’ – Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee and Ohio Republican Party hold press conference to ‘highlight the stark contrast between Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek and his challenger David Sparks’, and ‘call attention to past comments by Sparks that include lewd and sexually explicit language toward women, as well as comments about drug use.’ Participants include Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek, Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges, Trotwood Mayor Mary McDonald, and Ohio House Republican members
Location: Dayton Racquet Club, 40 N. Main Street, Dayton, OH Dayton http://www.ohroc.com/ https://twitter.com/OhioHouseGOP
Contacts: OHROC [email protected]
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Monday, Aug. 29 6:00 PM Hillary for Ohio opens new organizing office – Hillary for Ohio opens new organizing office, where supporters discuss Hillary Clinton’s ‘agenda for supporting the local economy compared with Donald Trump’s plan to give large tax breaks to the wealthy’
Location: 224 Park Ave., Hamilton, OH Hamilton www.hillaryclinton.com https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton #OHHillYes
Contacts: Rachel Harvey Katz Hillary for America [email protected]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.
The department has so far released about half of the schedules. Its lawyers said in a phone conference with the AP’s lawyers that the department now expects to release the last of the detailed schedules around Dec. 30, weeks before the next president is inaugurated.
The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.
The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
The AP’s reporting was based on official calendars covering Clinton’s entire term plus the more-detailed daily schedules covering roughly half her time as secretary of state. The AP first asked for Clinton’s calendars in 2010 and again in 2013. It then sued the State Department in federal court to obtain the detailed schedules, and the department so far has provided about half of them under court order.
Clinton has said the AP’s analysis was flawed because it did not account fully for all meetings and phone calls during her entire term as secretary. She also said the analysis should have included meetings with federal employees and foreign diplomats. The AP said it focused on her meetings with outsiders because those were more discretionary, as Clinton would normally meet with federal officials and foreign officials as part of her job.
Clinton said she met with people outside government regardless of whether they gave money or charitable commitments to her family’s charity.
“These are people I would be proud to meet with, as any secretary of state would have been proud to meet with, to hear about their work and their insights,” Clinton said this week on CNN.
With the foundation drawing continued attention, Clinton promised Friday to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with the charity should she win the White House.
The foundation issue, along with continued focus on her use of a private email server, has dogged Clinton politically throughout the week, drawing strong criticism from opponent Donald Trump.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller released a statement Friday night saying: “It is unacceptable that the State Department is now refusing to release her official schedule before the election in full. Voters deserve to know the truth before they cast their ballots.”
Former President Bill Clinton said last week that if she is elected president, the foundation will no longer accept foreign or corporate donations.
The State Department is now estimating there are about 2,700 pages of schedules left. Under its process, it is reviewing and censoring them page-by-page to remove personal details such as private phone numbers or email addresses. In some cases it has censored names of people who met privately with Clinton or the subjects they discussed.
A State Department spokeswoman, Elizabeth Trudeau, declined to discuss the ongoing case and noted the agency is struggling with thousands of public records requests.
In court, the AP in December had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to order the State Department to produce specific percentages of the remaining schedules every 30 days under a formula so that all would be released before the presidential primary elections were complete.
Instead, because the State Department said it did not know how many pages were left, Leon ordered it in January to release at least 600 pages of schedules every 30 days. Each 600-page group covers about three months of Clinton’s tenure.
Under the present rate, a government attorney working on behalf of the State Department notified the AP’s lawyers, it will take about four and one-half months — or until Dec. 30 — to release all the remaining schedules through the end of Clinton’s term, in February 2013. The government’s notice late Thursday was the first time the State Department has provided the AP with a measure of how many pages were remaining and when it expected to complete the job.
It was unclear whether the judge will reconsider his earlier decision and order faster results. In the AP’s lawsuit over other Clinton-related files, Leon has said it would be “ridiculous” to allow the State Department to delay until even weeks before the election. He also cited “mounting frustration that this is a project where the State Department may be running out the clock.”

US: Clinton calendars won’t be released until after election


BEXLEY, Ohio (AP) — Special programs allowing Ohio college students to earn both their bachelor’s and law degrees in a combined six years are cropping up around the state.
That’s after the state Supreme Court changed a rule in 2014 that all but prohibited sitting for the bar unless you’d completed your undergraduate degree before completing your law degree. Ohio was the last state in the country to lift the restriction.
Capital University was the first to launch the program last school year. This fall, the 3-plus-3 program has expanded from a handful of initial participants, adding 23 new enrollees. Ohio Northern and Cleveland State law schools also have added the option.
Benefits include helping younger students tailor their undergraduate work to becoming a lawyer and trimming about $30,000 off the cost of college.

Ohio students can finish college, law degree in 6 years


CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland police officer has been hospitalized following a crash.
The wreck occurred around 10:30 p.m. Monday when police say the cruiser was struck on the front passenger’s side by a silver car that had front end damage.
Police haven’t disclosed the conditions of the officer or the driver of the other car. Both were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center.
The crash remains under investigation.

Police: Officer, civilian hurt following crash in Cleveland


LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Authorities in Bolivia say they have accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials for the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike. Forty miners have been detained in the case.
Illanes was kidnapped and beaten to death by striking mine workers on Thursday after to going to the town of Panduro south of La Paz to mediate in the dispute over mining laws and dwindling paychecks.
Three protesters have been killed in clashes with riot police, stoking tensions.
Bolivia’s Attorney General’s Office has detained 40 miners, among them protest leader Carlos Mamani, president of the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia. On Saturday afternoon, Mamani and two of his officials were accused by the Public Ministry in Illanes’ death.

Mining leader, 2 others, accused in Bolivia official’s death


Associated Press Ohio Daybook for Monday, Aug. 29.
The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover.
Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Columbus bureau is reachable at 614-885-2727. Send daybook items to [email protected]
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Monday, Aug. 29 10:00 AM OHROC and Ohio GOP highlight Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek’s ‘accomplishments in the House’ – Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee and Ohio Republican Party hold press conference to ‘highlight the stark contrast between Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek and his challenger David Sparks’, and ‘call attention to past comments by Sparks that include lewd and sexually explicit language toward women, as well as comments about drug use.’ Participants include Ohio state Rep. Jeff Rezabek, Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges, Trotwood Mayor Mary McDonald, and Ohio House Republican members
Location: Dayton Racquet Club, 40 N. Main Street, Dayton, OH Dayton http://www.ohroc.com/ https://twitter.com/OhioHouseGOP
Contacts: OHROC [email protected]
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Monday, Aug. 29 10:00 AM Ohio Tax Credit Authority meeting
Location: Vern Riffe Center, 77 S High St, Columbus, OH Columbus http://development.ohio.gov/ https://twitter.com/OhioDevelopment
Contacts: Stephanie Gostomski Ohio Development Services Agency [email protected] 1 614 466 6619
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Monday, Aug. 29 11:30 AM GOP New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu on campaign trail with Ohio Gov. Kasich – Republican New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu campaigns in New Hampshire with Ohio Governor John Kasich, with events including press conference with former Republican Senator John Sununu, New Hampshire Legislative Office Bldg, 33 North State St, Concord, NH (11:30 AM EDT) and downtown walk in Exeter with New Hampshire State Senator Russell Prescott, starting at 11 Court St, Exeter, NH (12:45 PM EDT)
Location: Concord http://www.chrissununu.com/
Contacts: Chris Sununu for Governor [email protected]
Open press
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Monday, Aug. 29 6:00 PM Amber Tamblyn campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Ohio – Actress Amber Tamblyn (‘General Hospital’, ‘Joan of Arcadia’) campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Ohio, attending an organizing office opening, where she and supporters discuss Hillary Clinton’s ‘agenda for supporting the local economy compared with Donald Trump’s plan to give large tax breaks to the wealthy’
Location: 224 Park Ave., Hamilton, OH Hamilton www.hillaryclinton.com https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton #OHHillYes
Contacts: Rachel Harvey Katz Hillary for America [email protected]
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 8:30 AM Abercrombie & Fitch: Q2 2016 Earning conference call / Webcast
Location: TBD http://www.abercrombie.co.uk/anf/lifestyles/html/investorrelations.html https://twitter.com/Abercrombie
Contacts: Hampton Carney Paul Wilmot Communications [email protected] 1 212 206 7447
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 1:30 PM Akron Mayor Horrigan kicks off University of Akron 2016 football season – Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan kicks off University of Akron 2016 football season with press conference with Zips’ Director of Athletics Larry Williams and head coach Terry Bowden
Location: InfoCision Stadium, 373 E. Exchange Street, Akron, OH Akron www.akronohio.gov
Contacts: Christine R. Curry City of Akron [email protected] 1 330 375 2209
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 5:30 PM Candidate for Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Dreihaus speaks at event – Candidate for Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Dreihaus speaks at House Party hosted by Brian Garry and the Host Committee, discussing her ‘great plans for the future of Hamilton County’
Location: 128 Lafayette Lane, Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati http://www.denisedriehaus.com/ https://twitter.com/DeniseDriehaus
Contacts: Beverly Thomas MCR Marketing [email protected] Michael Ramundo MCR Marketing [email protected]
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 6:30 PM Ohio bicentennial farm recognized at Morrow County Fair – Ohio Department of Agriculture representatives and supporters of agriculture honor wetland family before the Morrow County Fair’s King and Queen Presentation. * The Swetland family has maintained their farm for 200 years
Location: Morrow County Fairgrounds, 195 South Main Street, Mt. Gilead, OH http://www.agri.ohio.gov/ https://twitter.com/OhioDeptofAg
Contacts: Ashley McDonald Ohio Department of Agriculture [email protected] 1 614 752 9817
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 6:30 PM AARP Ohio host ‘Take a Stand’ Cleveland field office opening – AARP Ohio host grand opening of the Cleveland field office for their ‘Take a Stand’ campaign, a national effort focused on ‘holding each presidential candidate accountable for a plan to address the future of Social Security and demands that the candidates share the specific details of their plan with voters throughout the entire campaign season’
Location: 14200 Madison Ave, Lakewood, OH Lakewood http://www.aarp.org https://twitter.com/AARP
Contacts: Zach Bernstein AARP 1 917 637 0030
To RSVP, call 216.973.5966 or email [email protected]
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 Abercrombie & Fitch: Q2 2016 Results
Location: TBD http://www.abercrombie.co.uk/anf/lifestyles/html/investorrelations.html https://twitter.com/Abercrombie
Contacts: Hampton Carney Paul Wilmot Communications [email protected] 1 212 206 7447
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Tuesday, Aug. 30 The Wendy’s Company: Q3 2016 Ex-dividend date
Location: TBD http://www.aboutwendys.com/Investors/ https://twitter.com/Wendys
Contacts: David D. Poplar Wendy’s Investor Relations [email protected] 1 614 764 3311
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 8:00 AM Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority meeting – Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority meeting to consider acceptance of Federal Aviation Administration grant
Location: at One Maritime Plaza, Toledo, OH Toledo http://www.toledoportauthority.org/
Contacts: Connie Sobczak Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority [email protected]
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 9:00 AM Ohio Board of Building Standards Residential Construction Advisory Committee meeting
Location: Division of Industrial Compliance, 6606 Tussing Road, Training Room 3, Reynoldsburg, OH Reynoldsburg www.com.ohio.gov https://twitter.com/OhioCommerce
Contacts: Lindsey Burnworth Ohio Department of Commerce [email protected] 1 614 995 5791
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 4:00 PM Columbus City Councilmember Michael Stinziano holds Community Hours
Location: Panera Bread, 300 W. Lane Ave, Columbus, OH Columbus http://www.columbus.gov/ https://twitter.com/ColumbusCouncil
Contacts: Stephanie Megas City of Columbus 1 614 645 8311
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 Abercrombie & Fitch: Q3 2016 Ex-dividend date
Location: TBD http://www.abercrombie.co.uk/anf/lifestyles/html/investorrelations.html https://twitter.com/Abercrombie
Contacts: Thomas D. Lennox Abercrombie & Fitch corporate communications [email protected] 1 614 283 6751
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 Sleigh Bells begin North American tour in wake of Demi Lovato copyright lawsuit – Sleigh Bells begin North American tour * Band members Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller recently filed a complaint in California federal court alleging that Demi Lovato’s song ‘Stars’, taken from her fifth album ‘Confident’, contains similarities to their 2010 track ‘Infinity Guitars’ that ‘transcend the realm of coincidence’. The lawsuit names Lovato, UMG Recordings and producers Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub as defendants
Location: Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, 15711 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH Cleveland https://twitter.com/sleighbells
Contacts: Jen Appel Grandstand Media & Management [email protected]
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Wednesday, Aug. 31 Hillary Clinton addresses The American Legion National Convention – The American Legion National Convention continues, with today’s speakers including 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton * Republican nominee Donald Trump speaks tomorrow
Location: Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati www.legion.org https://twitter.com/AmericanLegion
Contacts: The American Legion press [email protected] 1 317 630 1253
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Keywords: Daybook, Ohio


YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is headed to northeast Ohio to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton campaign says exact details of Biden’s trip Thursday will be released soon. He’s expected to attend an event in the Mahoning Valley centered in Youngstown and another in Cleveland.
The region is considered critical to winning Ohio, a key political battleground. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been in both Akron and Youngstown this month.
Large numbers of Democrats in Mahoning County crossed over this spring to vote in the Republican primary — raising the possibility the blue-collar county, once a Democratic stronghold, could go for Trump this fall.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik), then a presidential candidate, defeated Trump and other Republicans in Ohio’s GOP primary.

Biden headed to Clinton rally in Youngstown on Thursday