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COPLEY, Ohio (AP) — A former police officer credited with helping stop a gunman who police say killed seven people described feeling terrified but said he reacted the way he was trained.

COPLEY, Ohio — A gunman who killed seven people during a weekend rampage in his Ohio neighborhood cornered one of his victims, his girlfriend's 11-year-old nephew, in the basement of a house, ordered out the family sheltering the boy and then shot him, police said Monday. Michael Hance's cold-blooded killing of such a young victim after stalking seven other people on a tidy suburban Akron street named Goodenough Avenue was, neighbors said, the culmination of a dispute over a home that once belonged to his girlfriend's parents.

COPLEY TWP., Oh - Breaking news from Copley Township. Police say eight people are dead after a gunman goes on a shooting rampage Sunday morning. The gunman is among the dead, killed by police after the suspect opened fire on officers. One woman did survive the shooting and is currently at Akron General hospital. Her condition is unknown at this time. Copley Police Chief Michael Mier says the first 9-1-1 call came in around 11 am Sunday morning about shots fired in the area of Schocalog Road and Goodenough Avenue. When officers arrived, they found multiple people shot at at...

SAN DIEGO – The parent company of The San Diego Union-Tribune announced Thursday that it has hired an investment banker to look into the possible sale of the company. Copley Press engaged the New York-based investment banking firm Evercore Partners, which also represented the publishing company in the sale of newspapers it owned in Los Angeles and in the Midwest in 2006 and 2007. In a statement, The Copley Press, Inc., cited the tough times in the newspaper industry as its motivation in deciding to explore the company's strategic options. “The last couple of years have been a difficult period...

Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko Date/Time: 11/1/2006 4:45:58 PM Title: Memo from San Diego Union-Tribune CEO Gene Bell Posted By: Jim Romenesko November 1, 2006 To: Union-Tribune Employees From: Gene Bell As you know, this has been a challenging period in the newspaper industry. Many other publishers have found it necessary to reduce expenses, and the Union-Tribune has already undertaken a number of steps to control costs. The time, unfortunately, has come for us to take more direct action to reduce our payroll. We have explored various options for realigning our workforce to meet the reality of the marketplace. One...

What is the story on Bodansky? As the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, it seems like he would have some credibility. He set forth some pretty articulate explanations of where Saddam's WMDs may be (Syria) and that al Quada did receive support and training from Iraq. Is he just pushing a book or does he know what he's talking about? And if any of what he is saying is true, why hasn't anyone else picked it up? I know that the "mainstream" media would totally ignore it, of course, but...