The Salvation Army's fifth annual state of the nation report depicts a country that is increasingly divided by wealth, race and age with the prospect of permanent social damage. Author of The Growing Divide, Alan Johnson, said the intention of the report

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As a young state senator 30 years ago, Paul Pfeifer helped write Ohio's death penalty law. Today, as the senior member of the state Supreme Court, he's trying to eliminate it. It's not uncommon for sitting judges to change their mind on the death penalty

NORTH RIDGEVILLE — For years, the city has had to pay about $20 per ton for disposal of sludge produced at its wastewater treatment plant in area landfills. Now an almost-completed $3.5 million project at the facility, 2350 Abbe Road, Sheffield, is expec