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GAS DRILLING-INSURANCE
ALBANY, N.Y. — Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance determines the risks connected to a contentious process of gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing are too great to be ignored and will not write policies covering damages connected to it. By Mary Esch.
OHIO HEALTH CARE-CHANGES
COLUMBUS — The state delays submitting its plan to the federal government to overhaul the Medicaid eligibility process, in part because of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the health care overhaul. The process covers about 700,000 Ohioans who receive the tax-funded health services. By Ann Sanner.
VEEPSTAKES-PORTMAN
CINCINNATI —Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is tamping down running mate speculation that flared up this week after he was in Boston with Mitt Romney campaign officials. Portman told reporters he was there Monday to help with fundraising and to discuss strategy in the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign. By Dan Sewell.
TRAIN DERAILMENT FIRE
COLUMBUS — A train that partly derailed and exploded north of downtown was traveling below the recommended speed before the crash, and its operators noticed no problems with the track as they approached the curve where it happened, a National Transportation Safety Board representative said. The NTSB is looking into what caused the Wednesday derailment on Norfolk Southern Corp. tracks north of downtown Columbus, which led to spectacular explosions and the burning of three tank cars, each carrying 30,000 gallons of ethanol.
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MENTAL ILLNESS-MEDICAID BENEFIT
COLUMBUS — Ohio officials are moving forward with plans to better coordinate care for Medicaid beneficiaries who have severe mental illnesses and also chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes. By Ann Sanner.
ASIAN CARP-SCIENCE
HAVANA, Ill. — As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as if shot from a gun, soaring in graceful arcs before plunging beneath the surface with splashes resembling tiny geysers. Water quality specialist Thad Cook grunts as a whopper belts him in the gut. His colleagues duck and dodge to avoid the missile-like fish that plop onto the deck, writhing madly until someone can grasp the slimy, slithering critters and heave them over the side. By John Flesher.
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— ASIAN CARP-GREAT LAKES — TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A new report says Asian carp could find hospitable conditions in all five of the Great Lakes if they gain a foothold. By John Flesher.
TV-DYLAN’S GUITAR
NEW YORK — Bob Dylan and historians at PBS are in a dispute over the whereabouts of an electric guitar that the singer plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, quite possibly the most historic single instrument in rock ‘n’ roll. The Rock Hall director says it’s tough to think of any instrument that was the focus of an event more meaningful than the electric guitar Dylan played that day. By Television Writer David Bauder.
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Also:
— CHINA-AMERICAN MURDERED — BEIJING — A 62-year-old American man, believed to be from the Cincinnati area, was stabbed to death in downtown Beijing and a suspect has been caught, police in China said.
— PICNICKERS SICKENED — GERMANTOWN — Health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak among people who ate at a southwest Ohio picnic say they’ve identified more cases, bringing the total to 55.
— HOSPITAL SETTLEMENT — CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati hospital has paid nearly $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit in which a former employee alleges medical tests weren’t being read.
— PRIVATE PRISONS-LAWSUIT —COLUMBUS — A union representing prison employees has sued the state, seeking to overturn Ohio’s private prison contracts and get laid-off employees’ jobs back.
— PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN-TV ADS — WASHINGTON — A pro-Republican group says it’s spending $8 million on new TV ads attacking President Barack Obama for sustained unemployment and calling on him to cut the national debt.
— TRUCK IN RIVER — AKRON — A State Highway Patrol inspection has found “ineffective” brakes on a 12-wheel dump truck that sped down an incline toward a plaza and an intersection before crashing into a northeast Ohio river, killing the driver.
— EARNS-PROGRESSIVE — MAYFIELD VILLAGE — The insurer Progressive Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter profit tumbled 52 percent, pulled down by investment losses. The drop was more than Wall Street expected and Progressive shares fell more than 5 percent in midday trading.
— SOLDIER’S REMAINS IDENTIFIED — CONCORD — The remains of a soldier who went missing during the Korean War have been identified and buried near his family in northeast Ohio more than 60 years later.
— VACATIONER DISAPPEARS — ASHLAND — Relatives of an Ohio woman who disappeared during a vacation plan to help search for her in North Carolina.
— TEEN BEATEN-GROUP HOME — HAMILTON — Closing arguments are up next in the case of a teen charged with killing a fellow group home resident in southwest Ohio.
— EMPTY TRAINS COLLIDE — AKRON — Police say no one was hurt when two empty trains collided in downtown Akron in the middle of the night, a day after a more serious train derailment in Columbus.
