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Speeches and poetry from youth highlight event in detention
AKRON––Self-expression is a form of self-awareness.
That was put on full display at a recent event in the Summit County Juvenile Court’s Detention Center.
Six youth in the detention center accepted the challenge to write material and recite it before a group of onlookers.
It was labeled as a competit ... (full story)
Untreated sewage and fertilizer runoff threaten the Florida manatee's main food source, contributing to malnutrition
(THE CONVERSATION) The gentle, slow-moving Florida manatee has no natural predators.
And yet, these charismatic mammals face numerous threats.
Manatees are struck by vessels in busy waterways across the state, and a majority bear scars from these collisions.
Harmful algal blooms – characterized by the rapid growth ... (full story)
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
(THE CONVERSATION) When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely to fail – to find someone who would fool the people into giving him complete power and then end the democracy.
They designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of ... (full story)
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Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women's outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero (-18 Celsius) January morning.
She had joined two dozen other members of a group founded by a Somali-American mothe ... (full story)
Panel upholds felony conviction of man who stole $450K from cousin
A Franklin County appeals panel affirmed the conviction and sentence of a 56-year-old Reynoldsburg man whom the court noted “gambled away” more than $450,000 of an elderly cousin’s bank accounts.
Finding no merit to the claims raised by Mark Mattox, Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge Michael Mentel upheld hi ... (full story)
Veteran state lawmaker Kristina Roegner launches 2026 bid for Ohio treasurer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Sen. Kristina Roegner, a veteran state lawmaker with fiscal oversight experience and a background in finance, announced that she is running for state treasurer.
Roegner, 56, of Hudson in northeast Ohio, is just finishing up 14 years in the Ohio Legislature — four terms in the Ohi ... (full story)