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		<title>City council considering legislation to protect transgender rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oberlin city council is currently considering legislation that would prevent the possibility of transgender individuals from being discriminated against when buying a house or applying for a job with the city. At last Monday’s council meeting members of council passed an ordinance on first reading to amend Oberlin’s codified ordinances to include language that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famous albino squirrels have quite an odd tail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People say they’ve been in Oberlin since the 70s, but it hasn’t been until that last few years that they’ve quietly gained an almost rock star status. Stores around town are selling T-shirts, postcards, and even plush versions of them; they even have a drink named after them. They’re the white squirrels of Oberlin, commonly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somber ceremony honors county&#039;s fallen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A somber crowd gathered on Tappan Square Friday morning to honor the police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Lorain County Police Memorial service. Officers from all departments in Lorain County, as well as officers from departments outside the county, were in attendance to recognize the 15 officers who gave their lives in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carol Merchant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Willbond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carol Merchant (nee Taylor), 73, of Oberlin, died Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland following a lengthy illness. She was born a triplet on Jan. 12, 1939 at Welch Hospital in Rolfe Bottom, W.Va. (formerly known as Bottom, W.Va.) and was a resident of Oberlin for more than 45 years. Carol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court to consider location of Ohio bomb plot trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal court in Akron is set to consider scheduling matters for five men charged with plotting to bomb a northeast Ohio bridge. The court scheduled the Thursday status conference and said it also would consider whether the case should be tried in Akron or Cleveland. The highway bridge named as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFK Jr.&#039;s troubled estranged wife found dead in NY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Mary Richardson Kennedy's life had both highlights and troubled moments, and they played out publicly because of the famous political family she married into in 1994. She was an architect who struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, and was the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. The 52-year-old mother of four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statewide texting ban, teen rules sent to Ohio gov</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A statewide texting-while-driving ban that could be tricky to enforce cleared the Ohio Legislature on Tuesday and was headed to the governor's desk for his expected signature. The House cleared the measure on a 82-12 vote. The Senate passed it earlier this month. All drivers would be banned from texting, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deputies: Fla. mom killed 4 kids, then herself</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) — A Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday called three of the kids who had sought help from a neighbor back to the house before firing the fatal shots, authorities said. Thirty-three-year-old Tonya Thomas fatally shot her four children, who ranged in age from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Half of Americans call Facebook a fad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mahoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high. The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student [...]]]></description>
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