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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved construction of a high-pressure pipeline that will carry natural gas from the shale fields of Appalachia, across northern Ohio and into Michigan and Canada, a decision likely to be the death blow to project opponents concerned about safety and property rights.

COLUMBUS (AP) — More judges are carrying weapons than most people realize, even though attacks on judges remain rare, surveys and experts say.
The question of whether judges should be armed got renewed attention this week after an Ohio judge who was carrying a gun was shot outside his courthouse and fired back.
Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese is recovering from the shooting Monday in Steubenville, along the Ohio River roughly 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Pittsburgh.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — State police have helped capture a wayward bull that was found walking along a major interstate highway in New Jersey.
The young black bull was spotted around 8:15 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 195, near an exit in the Trenton suburb of Hamilton Township.
Troopers helped slow down traffic. State police said on Facebook that “cowboys with lassos” helped corral the bull and eventually got it into a trailer. No one was injured and the animal was returned to its owner.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood effectively took the weekend off, resulting in one of the most dismal box-office results in 16 years.
An already slow August came to a screeching halt at the multiplex, where no major new releases were unveiled. That left the Samuel Jackson-Ryan Reynolds action-comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” to top all films for the second week with an estimated $10.1 million in ticket sales.

BOSTON (AP) — Retired Boston EMS Capt. Robert “Sarge” Haley, who played a key role in the Emergency Medical Services response to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, has died at age 63.
Haley’s wife, Constance “Conni” Haley, said Sunday he died of an illness Friday at their home.
Boston Athletic Association CEO Tom Grilk tells The Boston Herald that Haley was “one of the most important people that Boston Marathon runners never heard of.”

From Saturday
High Schools
Girls Soccer
Bryan 3, Ottoville 3
at Ottoville
Goals: Elyse Baker (Ottoville), Lindsay Schweller (Ottoville), Nicole Knippen (Ottoville), Gracie Voight 2 (Bryan), Ally Minor (Bryan)
Bowling Green 2, Miller City 0
at Bowling Green
Goals: Madi Wagner (BG), Emma Grisdale (BG)
Shots on goal: Miller City 9, Bowling Green 23
Saves: MC 17, BG 6
Coldwater 2, St Marys 2
at Coldwater

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, has died. He was 74.
The Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Sunday said Hooper died Saturday in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Thomas, a radio talk show host and actor with recurring roles on the sitcoms “Murphy Brown” and “Cheers,” has died, his publicist said. Thomas was 69.
He was “one of the funniest and kindest men I have had the honor to call both client and friend for 25 years plus,” publicist Tom Estey said in a statement Thursday. He did not provide further details.
Thomas was fighting cancer, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.

Pardon the people who let out a gasp when they learned that at age 51, William White has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
It doesn’t seem real.
White is one of the greatest athletes to come out of Lima as well as a truly remarkable person.
Pride, passion and perseverance is what made him a football star on Friday nights for Lima Senior, on Saturday afternoons at Ohio State, and on Sundays for 11 years with the NFL’s Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons.

Lima Memorial Health System
Aug. 25 — Tiffany Armstead and Travis Williams, Lima, boy.
St. Rita’s Medical Center
Aug. 25 — Monica Obrien and Malachai Hamlin, Lima, girl.
Aug. 26 — Sarah and Cory Bassitt, Cridersville, boy; Amanda and Joshua Lozzio, Lima, boy; Ceara and Casey Caudill, Spencerville, boy.