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COLUMBUS (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to felonious assault after being charged with firing gunshots in the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s main branch downtown.
The Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2fUObNg) 28-year-old Joseph Steward entered the guilty plea Thursday in Franklin County court.
The felonious assault charge included a gun specification. Steward also pleaded guilty to inducing panic following the June 11 shooting. He faces 12 ½ years in prison.

COLUMBUS (AP) — Attorney General Mike DeWine is urging caution in observing Monday’s solar eclipse thanks to reports of fake glasses being sold.
DeWine says the American Astronomical Society has received reports of the fake glasses, which won’t properly filter the sun’s rays, leading to possible permanent eye damage.
Some counterfeit glasses even carry the seal of the International Organization of Standardization, which previously could be trusted to indicate authentic glasses.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Zookeepers at the Cincinnati Zoo are pairing up compatible animals by drawing inspiration from the online dating website Match.com.
Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard called the internal matchmaking service an animal version of the website. WCPO-TV reported (http://bit.ly/2vTHQZl) it’s not exactly like Match.com — as it draws on expert committees dedicated to Species Survival Plans rather than computer algorithms.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities in Ohio say the driver of a tractor-trailer who lost consciousness while on heroin faces charges after his truck hit an interstate guardrail.
The crash on Interstate 74 temporarily closed the westbound lanes in Green Township on Friday evening.
Authorities say 28-year-old Scotty R. Kinmon, of Crittenden, Kentucky, blacked out after taking heroin. They say his tractor-trailer rolled backward and then jackknifed and hit the guardrail. Other motorists rescued him.

FRANKLIN (AP) — Ohio cities have removed Confederate markers in the wake of last week’s violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the planned removal of a statute of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Police in Franklin on Saturday asked businesses near the site of a former marker to close early out of precaution.
A stone marker in Franklin commemorating Lee was removed Thursday, the Hamilton-Middletown Journal News reported. Franklin is about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of Cincinnati.

BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday on downtown Boston in a boisterous repudiation of white nationalism, dwarfing a small group of conservatives who cut short their planned “free speech rally” a week after a gathering of hate groups led to bloodshed in Virginia.

The top 100 of the Professional Bowlers Association tour have been invited to compete in Coldwater in what is now officially a national stop.
Xtra Frame will air the event, named the Xtra Frame Kenn-Feld Group Classic. Clearly the PBA has gotten positive feedback from the professional bowlers who have rolled at Pla-Mor Lanes in Coldwater.

PHOENIX (AP) — When President Donald Trump takes the stage this week at a rally in Arizona, the state’s junior senator will be nowhere to be seen. But Trump is likely to save some choice words for Sen. Jeff Flake.

DAYTON (AP) — You’ve probably seen IBM’s Watson talking on TV commercials, but Montgomery County is part of a pilot project that would put the lightning-fast, artificial intelligence system into the hands of judges across the country.
Judge Anthony Capizzi said juvenile court cases now are more complicated by drugs and dysfunction within households. Getting the most out of technology is one way courts can get ahead of the opioid epidemic and the other crises that disrupt young lives, he said.

KETTERING (TNS) — Ohio’s school voucher “expansion” program for low-income families will grow by millions of dollars each of the next two years, but a key Republican education leader says the program may be a bad idea.
The point of Ohio’s primary EdChoice voucher program has been to give “students from under-performing public schools the opportunity to attend participating private schools,” according to the Ohio Department of Education.