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Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women's outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero (-18 Celsius) January morning.
She had joined two dozen other members of a group founded by a Somali-American mothe ... (full story)
Panel upholds felony conviction of man who stole $450K from cousin
A Franklin County appeals panel affirmed the conviction and sentence of a 56-year-old Reynoldsburg man whom the court noted “gambled away” more than $450,000 of an elderly cousin’s bank accounts.
Finding no merit to the claims raised by Mark Mattox, Tenth District Court of Appeals Judge Michael Mentel upheld hi ... (full story)
Veteran state lawmaker Kristina Roegner launches 2026 bid for Ohio treasurer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Sen. Kristina Roegner, a veteran state lawmaker with fiscal oversight experience and a background in finance, announced that she is running for state treasurer.
Roegner, 56, of Hudson in northeast Ohio, is just finishing up 14 years in the Ohio Legislature — four terms in the Ohi ... (full story)
Belem, host of next year's climate talks, is Amazonian city plagued with pollution and violence
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For the last few years, climate scientists, environmentalists and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have been talking up the first U.N. climate conference to be held in the Amazon. The largest tropical forest in the world stores huge amounts of planet-warming greenhouse gases, making it crucial ... (full story)
Haitian migrants share harrowing stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations
BELLADERE, Haiti (AP) — A crowd of 500 descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic.
They were the first deportees of the day, some still clad in work clothes and others barefoot as they lined up for food, water and medical car ... (full story)