TOLEDO — Five people have been accused of trying to steal the carcass of a lion that was among dozens of exotic animals set free from an Ohio private compound and shot dead by sheriff’s deputies last month.
BUXTON, N.C. — A monstrous Hurricane Irene tightened its aim on the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday, threatening 65 million people along a shore-hugging path from North Carolina to New England. One of the nation’s top experts called it his “nightmare” scenario. The Category 3 storm with winds of 115 mph — the threshold for a major hurricane — would be the strongest to strike the East Coast in seven years, and people were already getting out of the way.
COLUMBUS — The owners of an Ohio restaurant touted last week by President Barack Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government’s Chrysler bailout said Thursday that tough times are putting them out of business.