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CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania -- The first steel plant located here along the Monongahela River just over 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was built in 1901. By 1903, the borough of Clairton formed around the industry, and by 1904, U.S. Steel acquired the plant from St. Clair Steel, and the industrial base of America began its reign here in Western Pennsylvania.

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - On Thursday, the Cincinnati Police Department released body camera video from the officer-involving shooting that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Ali Coulter. On Thursday, the Cincinnati Police Department released body camera video from the officer-involving shooting that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Ali Coulter. The shooting took place around 9:15 a.m. Monday during a combined investigation between CPD’s Fugitive Apprehension Squad and Covington Police Department, according to CPD Interim Police Chief Teresa Theetge.

Police were called to the amusement park to break up large groups of teens fighting.

When I was growing up in Rhode Island, the state was run by the mafia. Politicians, police, priests, judges, juries, firemen, trash collectors, teachers, unions– anyone who had power owed that power to Raymond L.S. Patriarca. Period. In the last forty years, the mob’s stranglehold on the Ocean State has dissipated– even if the stench of corruption remains. But it’s too late. The mob-controlled unions and their corrupt enablers destroyed Little Rhody’s industrial base. The state will never be a locus of, well, anything. And yet people call talk radio and wax lyrical about “the good old days.” Justice was...

The year 2006 will be remembered as one in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio Jul 31, 2006 (AP)— At his Tienda La Raza grocery store and restaurant, Jose Bravo sells Spanish-language DVDs and Mexico soccer jerseys, chorizo sausage and chopped cactus. Lately, there has been another hot seller one-way bus tickets out of here. "People that had been in the United States for a while, who were planning to stay, now they feel scared," Bravo said. He said he has sold at least 10 tickets in recent weeks to people who are moving to Michigan or other parts of Ohio, or who have decided to go back to Mexico. Tough talk on...

(CNSNews.com) - Administrators at Kent State University in Ohio have refused to recognize a Second Amendment club as an official student group, a conservative organization claimed Friday. Students organized the group with the assistance of the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, which helps start and maintain conservative groups at colleges and universities. Officials at Kent State's Office of Campus Life refused to consider the Second Amendment Club's application for recognition, said student Luke Adams, who founded the club this past fall "We asked Kent State to recognize our Second Amendment group, and they treated us like second-class citizens," Adams said....