Go ahead and grab a tissue, because this real-life version of the couple from The Notebook is almost certainly going to bring tears to your eyes: An Ohio couple who'd been married for seven decades recently died within a day of one another.
Move over, baseball and apple pie: enacting draconian laws that severely infringe upon women's access to abortion — without technically infringing upon their constitutional rights — is on its way to becoming America's favorite past time.
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This morning, Ohio's Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the findings of a grand jury investigation into the roles Steubenville school officials played in covering up the town's now-infamous sexual assault of a girl by football players a year ago in August. Among those charged? The school's…
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Last night, just a month and change into serving his life + 1,000-year sentence for kidnapping three Cleveland women and keeping them captive under hellish conditions for a decade, Ariel Castro committed suicide in jail. After I heard the news, I felt a range of awful, base emotions, none of which made me feel good…
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The day in which we all must sacrifice our young upon an altar to corporatocracy looms ever closer: Ohio State University is planning to name its new emergency department after Abercrombie & Fitch, a clothing company that peddles jean shorts and graphic tees about being horny and/or drunk and/or confused to teenagers.
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Ariel Castro — the Ohio man accused of kidnapping, imprisoning, and repeatedly raping Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight — is allegedly in talks regarding a plea deal that would rule out the death penalty. There's a chance he'll accept the deal during a Friday pre-trial hearing.
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A 35-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested after Ohio police found three bodies wrapped in plastic in the same 300-yard radius on Friday and Saturday. All three victims are believed to be black females who were killed in the last six to ten days.
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An Ohio man who loves summer, like, more than a friend, was charged with public indecency after several children witnessed him having sex with a pool toy this week. How does that even work? What is going on?
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In this powerful PSA, rape survivor Audrey Imes puts a face on the multitudes of women who will be severely impacted because of Ohio's ridiculous budget cuts to Planned Parenthood.
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A friend posted this gem on Facebook... it made me laughcry.
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Last Tuesday, one-woman filibuster machine Wendy Davis and her angry feminist army blocked the Texas GOP from voting on an evil omnibus anti-abortion bill. Success! Until the next day, when Governor Rick Perry, Grand Protector of Ladies From Themselves, announced a second special session so he could put the bill back…
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Great news, everybody (not), last night Ohio Gov./terrible human John Kasich signed the state's new two-year, $62 billion state budget. One of the heartiest and most depressing cuts? Planned Parenthood.
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35 Ohio House Republicans introduced an exhaustive anti-abortion bill yesterday that would require doctors to lie to women and force them to pay for unnecessary medical procedures, among other fun doctor-patient trust exercises.
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The 26-year-old leader of Anonymous's "Operation Roll Red Roll" made the Steubenville Ohio rape case go viral. Now he's being targeted by the FBI for hacking and identify theft. They take the forcible penetration of computers very seriously!
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A Cleveland after-school program teaches teens to talk to other teens about emotionally and physically safe sex instead of pretending premarital boning never happens. Imagine that!
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Anna Louise Inn opened its doors to ambitious and independent women in Cincinnati looking to start their careers and lives in 1909. Situated in the historic Lytle Park neighborhood, the dormitory-like building has classic, Federal and Victorian style architecture and is surrounded by plenty of green lawns. For the last …
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Apparently being known for Steubenville isn't enough for Ohio — they're now trying to corner the market on not educating their teens about sex. Yesterday, the Ohio House Finance Committee's Republican members voted to adopt a state budget amendment that mandates an abstinence-only approach to sexual education. Oh,…
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Alexandria Goddard, the blogger who brought the Steubenville rape case to light by refusing to let the issue go on Prinnified.com, isn't very popular in the small football-obsessed town — one high school football player, Cody Saltsman, actually tried to sue her and some commenters on her website for defamation.
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Zombies and fetuses have been hot in 2012, so it makes perfect sense that the Ohio Senate would try to make that state cool again by combining the two into one terribly stupid political maneuver. The so-called "Heartbeat Bill," which proposed banning abortion from the moment a fetal heartbeat could be detected, would…
