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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One of Ohio's foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

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As more is learned regarding the tragic shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, there are serious questions concerning how and why Maj.

Editor: I would like to take this time to "thank" the Democrats in Washington D.C. Having lost one of the 190,000 jobs this past month, I feel I owe it to thank the people responsible.

The founder and editor-in-chief of a Chinese magazine known for pushing boundaries with the country's censors and chasing stories that could embarrass the government resigned Monday amid friction with her publisher, colleagues and the magazine said.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and communism guaranteed mutually-shared poverty.

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-'90s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon.

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult.

On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall.

There must be a better way to rig an election. First, the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the late summer would be easier to arrange.

Here's my answer to the question, "Why didn't the good folks of Heath like the traffic cameras?" Three responses: Americans will fight anything that resembles "Big Brother is watching." We don't appreciate being treated as a statistic or in any other way that is cold and impersonal.

Thank you to the residents of Ward 3 for allowing me to serve as your city commissioner for the previous two years.

The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary. The two men apparently came to blows over, of all things, words.

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk.

A month in Arizona can do wonders for a hot prospect's stock as a future big leaguer.

Canadians are a stoic bunch, right? It's because of our harsh weather and pioneer roots.

It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St.

I was in a local store when I noticed a man wearing a U.S. Navy ship ballcap. I stopped him, for I had spent seven years of my career aboard the ship he was advertising.

There are countless questions yet to be answered about the murderous rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and 28 people wounded Thursday.

The Lions go to Seattle this weekend with one victory assured. That doesn't mean they'll beat the Seahawks at Qwest Field.