Early voting for Ohio’s March 6 primary election kicked off yesterday. But for many of Delaware County’s approximately 93,000 unaffiliated voters, they could show up at the polls with nothing to vote on. That is unless they are willing to sacrifice their political independence.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Europe’s crippling debt crisis dominated the world’s foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet’s haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to the Arab Spring uprisings, the Occupy movement and other protests around the globe.
COLUMBUS — Several Republican state senators have been reviewing for weeks the idea of repealing Ohio’s new elections law that trims early voting days in the presidential battleground state and makes other election changes, the leader of Ohio’s Senate said Thursday.
If state Sen. Kris Jordan (R-Powell) has his way, Ohio voters could be asked to go to the polls less often.
WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.
TEHRAN, Iran — It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.
When Lewis Center resident Mary O’Connor-Shaver attended her first dog auction in 2006, she knew that something needed to be done to put an end to the events where hundreds of discarded puppy mill dogs, oftentimes in poor health, are sold to the highest bidder.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans marched by the thousands Monday to their capital’s landmarks to mourn Kim Jong Il, many crying uncontrollably and flailing their arms in grief over the death of their “Dear Leader.”