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CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland police say one man was killed and four other people injured in an early morning shooting outside a bar on the city’s east side.
Police say the shooting happened about 1 a.m. Saturday outside Freck’s Lounge after a fight broke out.
Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia says several people fired shots. Police towed three vehicles as part of the investigation.
The other victims, three men and a woman, are expected to survive.

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Federal officials say two alleged members of the MS-13 gang have been arrested in New Jersey.
The FBI announced Friday that fugitives Jose Manuel Romero-Parada and Willians Ernesto Lovos-Ayala were apprehended in Galloway Township.
Romero-Parada, formerly of Indianapolis, was one of 15 people recently indicted in Ohio for allegedly conspiring to extort and launder money for MS-13, an El-Salvador-based gang consisting chiefly of immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Central America.

I hear a voice this time of year:
“It can’t be back-to-school time. We’re not ready!”
“There’s so much more we wanted to do this summer.”
“We didn’t get to have enough fun together in the past three months.”
I expected it to be the voices of my daughters, but no, they’re inside my head. For the first time I can remember, I’m not ready for my kids to go back to school yet.

COLUMBUS — A local legislator is working to enhance child safety laws.
Ohio House of Representatives
Rep. Bob Cupp, R-Lima: On Thursday, Cupp, along with Rep. Mike Duffey, R-Worthington, announced plans to work with Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien to craft new legislation to strengthen the state’s child enticement law.

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:
NOT REAL: Charlottesville Killer Was Hillary Supporter, Funded By Soros

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon family’s golden retriever has been honored by a sheriff for digging up $85,000 worth of black tar heroin in a family’s backyard.
KATU-TV reported (http://bit.ly/2xb1MmW) Friday that the owners of the 18-month-old dog named Kenyon thought he had dug up a time capsule in their backyard, so they decided to film themselves opening it.
As they did, they realized Kenyon had found drugs.

ADA — Ohio’s wind power capacity is experiencing strong growth despite legislative setbacks and opposition from local groups that are against the construction of large-scale wind farms.

Soon Medicare cards will no longer use Social Security numbers. Instead, each Medicare card will have an 11-character string of numbers and letters that is randomly generated to be unique to each card. People on Medicare do not have to do anything to receive the card; it will just show up in the mail. The timeline for completion of replacing all of the cards is April 2019.

The trend of the real estate market in Allen County is shown by the following report, for the week running Aug. 10 to Aug. 16. Figures reflect the selling price of the property, along with the address or lot number of same and are courtesy of Allen County Recorder Mona Losh’s Office.
CITY OF LIMA
• Cary Industries, L.L.C. to City of Lima, Ohio, 169 Grove Ave., Lima, $287,200.
• Kyle Jay Benroth to Sandra K. Farley, 2718 Carolyn Drive, Lima, $132,000.

If you want someone to stop asking you for money, the worst thing you can do is say no and then give in after persistent pleading.
Such “intermittent reinforcement” — granting a reward after an unpredictable number of requests — makes it more likely the person will ask for another handout than if you just said yes at the start, says Brad Klontz, a certified financial planner and psychologist in Lihue, Hawaii, who researches financial psychology. It’s the same dynamic that lures people to slot machines and lotteries.