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MOUNT VERNON -- Though cooler and cloudier than expected, the weather remained dry for the combined First Friday/Fourth of July festival at Memorial Park.

MOUNT VERNON -- Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Mavis reports that the city budget is not forcing the administration to ask for a percentage reduction in the budgets of city offices -- at least not so far.

MOUNT VERNON -- Steamy summer temperatures have arrived in Mount Vernon, and with it an increase in emergency calls for people suffering from the heat.

MOUNT VERNON -- According to Knox County Sheriff Deputy Dan Selby, National Night Out will make its debut in Knox County on Aug. 4 in a big way.

Do you like mysteries? Well, here's one for you. In fact, it's almost a proverbial riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The riddle is, can an almost forgotten writer be revived? The mystery is, literally, a detective novel called "She Shall Have Murder." And the enigma is its author, Mount Vernon's own Delano Ames.

A 34-year-old man was shot to death early this morning in a Near East Side parking lot. The victim has been identified as A. Kenneth Jackson. Police arrested Nelson Romine Jr., 26, of 1071 Chittenden Ave. after the shooting at 2:39 a.m.

With defenders of church policy and dissenters divided, Mennonite Church USA will continue to study whether to welcome homosexuals into its pews.

A week rarely went by last school year without a plea for help from another newly poor family in South-Western schools. Parents were losing their jobs and wanted to know how the district could help.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is approaching a record 1 million compensation claims and appeals waiting to be processed.

The first Ohio highway projects paid for with federal stimulus dollars had barely begun last month when the United States Conference of Mayors said big cities aren't getting their fair share.

David Booth was in the headlines for attempting to hijack an airplane when the world was still getting used to the term “plane hijacking.“

H.M. Cummings, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country’s first group of black military pilots and crew, has died.

Local authorities are asking for your help to catch two theft suspects.

Columbus police say a man was fatally shot in a parking lot early Sunday and officers made a homicide arrest.

Police in Canton say they arrested a man accused in the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old girl in her home. 

UPDATED: Police say they have located a Columbus woman who was reported missing on Friday.

CRIME OF THE WEEK: A pair is seen confusing store clerks into giving them more money than they should have received. Get details.

West Jefferson will launch its fireworks on Sunday night after a car struck a gas line.

A person is in custody after a pursuit that began on Interstate 270 and continued into neighborhoods in north Columbus.

A person is in critical condition after an overnight shooting at a downtown club.

Cardinal Health Inc. said Thursday that a director of 22 years is leaving its board.

Gov. Ted Strickland made a key move in a political tug-of-war with Senate Republicans on Thursday, telling lawmakers that a revenue stream from proposed video slot terminals won’t make it into state coffers without their OK.

Two nonprofit trade groups for the banking industry have merged.

Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s American sales arm on Wednesday reported a 30 percent sales decline in June, bringing the automaker’s sales skid for the first half of the year to 34 percent.

Ohio has the 10th highest rate of adult obesity in the country, tied with Arkansas, according to a recent report by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation .

COSHOCTON — One concerned neighbor's fears and a fire captain's concerns may have been realized when a fire broke out behind an Orchard Street residence late Saturday night.

We have complete coverage of Coshocton's July Fourth activities. Don't forget to share your holiday images with us!

CLARK TOWNSHIP — A Millersburg woman was killed and her 5-year-old daughter was injured in an ATV accident Saturday afternoon.

COSHOCTON - "It's going to be hard to convince the kids not to race," laughed Roscoe Village Business Association President Chad Miller Saturday morning.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - With a fattened GI Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly half a million. That's left many universities looking for ways to ease the transition from combat to the classroom.

NEWARK -- It was a day of good-old fashioned community fun in Granville on the Fourth.

NEWARK -- Vernon Smith, a Heath resident who appealed his property assessment to the Licking County Board of Revision, will receive a refund check of about $560 for the 2008 property taxes he has already paid.

NEWARK -- Restraining orders are simply words on a page. They are not accompanied by body armor, a firearm or a direct line to the nearest police cruiser.

COLUMBUS -- No budget?

GRANVILLE -- Brad Schneider has been a consistent top-20 finisher in the Granville Firecracker Five footrace and the Granville Turkey Trot in recent years. And he hasn't let the double stroller he's pushing -- with his two kids aboard -- slow him down.

LANCASTER - Some retired residents who thought they didn't have to file a tax return in 2007 for the Lancaster City School district's earned income tax are receiving letters telling them otherwise.

LANCASTER - Every year, Lancaster Fourth of July organizers try to surprise those parade-goers who think they've "seen it all before."

LANCASTER - Local students marching for the first time in Lancaster's Fourth of July Parade pulled out all the stops Saturday. They shuffled through the city streets, playing favorites such as "God Bless America," and even danced and jived in an effort to win top honors.

LANCASTER - It's been five years since Terrie Dean has been able to live a normal life.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY - Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced plans to simplify the application process for federal student aid, including a feature that lets some users skip irrelevant questions and a proposal to eliminate other questions.

CRESTLINE -- Haylee Donathan will be placed with a foster family -- not with her grandmother -- when she returns from California.

BUCYRUS -- For Stanley Jackson, growing up in Patterson, N.J., meant one thing: You voted Democrat.

MANSFIELD -- Most people know John Dil- linger much as they knew "Baby Face" Nelson, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano -- more myth than reality, grainy black-and-white as opposed to living color.

BUCYRUS POLICE

BUCYRUS -- The Crawford County Board of Commissioners met June 30. The following resolutions were acted upon:

Fourth of July 2009

A couple's vacation took a turn for the worse Friday after they were robbed in the parking lot of a Cambridge restaurant. Police responded shortly before 10 p.m. to McDonald's on Eas

Remains found at a Guernsey County property Friday may be that of a missing New Mexico person, authorities said. According to reports from the Guernsey County Sheriff

QUAKER CITY -- The following is the daily schedule for the 2009 Ohio Hills Folk Festival. Wednesday, July 8 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Festival kitchen (firehouse) 12 p.m., Old Time Pictures of Quaker City by Faye Whit

Nippit records recording artist Aaron Tippin will be live in concert at the Deerassic Classic '09 at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8. He is a gold and platinum-selling artist with No. 1 hits: "There Ain't No