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Calif. Lawmakers Seek Liquefaction as Alternative to Cremation
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsIt sounds like the stuff of horror movies -- placing a body in a steel tube and then covering it with a mixture of water and acid until most of the remains are liquefied. But it's actually a scientific process called alkaline hydrolysis that is on track toward becoming an alternative to cremation in California. Lawmakers are unanimously supporting a bill that would legalize the procedure with heavy oversight at mortuaries and funeral homes. Last year Florida passed a similar law, but no business has a license to perform the procedure. California Assemblyman Jeff Miller sponsored the bill ...
Man Pleads Guilty in Ohio Gunpoint Abortion Case
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man charged under an Ohio fetal homicide law with trying to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to get an abortion pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder, weapons and abduction counts. Dominic Holt-Reid pulled a gun Oct. 6 on girlfriend Yolanda Burgess, who was three months pregnant, and forced her to drive to an abortion clinic, police said. Burgess, who was 26 at the time, did not go through with the procedure but instead passed a note to a clinic employee, who called police. Prosecutors had brought their case against Holt-Reid using the state's 1996 law that ...
Family's Lucky Day Brings $150,000 Win [VIDEO]
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsBeth Loomis found a lucky dollar early Tuesday. "This morning I walked the dog and found a dollar and thought, 'I guess this might be our lucky day,' " the Columbus, Ohio, resident told TV station WBNS. By day's end, the Loomis family was $151,000 richer. David Loomis, out of work and nearing the end of his unemployment benefits, bought a $5 Supercash Instant lottery ticket in February. He won $1,000, a success that automatically entered him in a March 29 drawing for $150,000. When lottery officials told him he'd won, David thought the big prize was a hat and a mug. He started crying ...
Ohio Senate Passes Bill to Restrict Public Unions
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- The bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio would be dramatically reduced and strikes would be banned under a bill narrowly passed by the Ohio Senate on Wednesday. A GOP-backed measure that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of roughly 350,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees squeaked through the state Senate on a 17-16 vote. Six Republicans sided with Democrats against the measure. Firefighters and teachers shouted "Shame!" in the chamber as the legislation was approved. Jay LaPrete, AP The Ohio Senate passed a ...
Reporter Who Discovered Ted Williams Covers the Homeless
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsDoral Chenoweth always gives some loose change to the homeless people he comes across, so when he and his wife saw a man on the side of the road last month asking for a little help, they gave him a dollar. But this time, Chenoweth, a journalist and Web producer for The Columbus Dispatch, got something unexpected from a velvety-voiced homeless man named Ted Williams in return: a short but stunning vocal performance that he knew right away he wanted to videotape. "He always gives some money, never more than a couple of dollars. But he knew when he heard that voice that he wanted to film him. ...
Ohio Man Charged With Murdering Girlfriend, 2 Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio (Nov. 27) -- Tia Hendricks was supposed to bring dessert to her family's Thanksgiving dinner. A cake, maybe, or her famous banana pudding. But she and her two children never made it. Authorities in central Ohio say Hendricks' live-in boyfriend, Caron Montgomery, stabbed the three of them to death before wounding himself. Columbus police found the three bodies with knife wounds Friday after the 31-year-old Hendricks didn't show up for Thanksgiving or to her job as a bill collector the following day. Autopsy results are expected Sunday. Montgomery, 36, was arrested Saturday on ...
Bear Owned by PETA Foe Kills Its Caretaker
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBIA STATION, Ohio (Aug. 20) -- A bear fatally mauled its caretaker during a feeding on property holding dozens of other exotic pets owned by a man who drew the wrath of activists -- and lost his license to exhibit -- after offering people the chance to wrestle bears at a Cleveland expo. The bear in the attack southwest of Cleveland was not one that owner Sam Mazzola had used for wrestling, officials said. His license to show animals had been revoked, but he apparently was still allowed to keep them on his property, which housed a menagerie including several bears, 20 wolves, tigers and ...
Obama Says Economy Is Coming Back Slowly
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio (Aug. 18) -- President Barack Obama used the homey backdrop of a middle-class Ohio family's backyard Wednesday to try to show voters he shares their concerns about the economy, health care and Social Security. Jacket off and sleeves rolled up, Obama took questions from the Weithman family and a small group of their neighbors arrayed around picnic tables and lawn chairs. His message was familiar: The economy needs more work, but it's getting better. "A lot of it is like recovering from an illness," the president said. "You get a little bit stronger each day." The event came ...
Eastern US Cooks in Summer Heat, Temps Reach 100s
By not in system - AOL NewsTOMS RIVER, N.J. (July 24) -- Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors. In the Mid-Atlantic, already the locus for brutal temperatures several times in July, weather experts warned of the dangerous conditions and residents resigned themselves to coping with the discomfort. David Goldman, AP Keshawn Howard, 8, right, and his sister Moriah Howard, 7, escape the heat by playing in a playground sprinkler in New York on Saturday. "Oh, it's ...
Conklin Dairy Farms Animal Abuse Video Goes Viral
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyNew video footage of employees savagely beating cows with tools and their fists at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio (near Columbus) has attracted enormous attention from the Web and prompted the farm's owner, Gary Conklin, to release a statement condemning the display and calling for the immediate termination of those involved. "We intend to cooperate fully with authorities in this situation. Further, our farm will institute immediate retraining of all those who remain on the farm and who work with our animals," Conklin said, according to the Dayton Business Journal. WARNING: The ...
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