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The Basheer Jones and Company Morning Show offers an eclectic mix of information and entertainment with a positive, uplifting message every weekday from 6 to 9AM on Newstalk 1490, WERE. “A Few Minutes with Basheer Jones” is just a small taste of this exciting program. With a wide variety of guests, from local and national leaders to authors, entertainers and experts from the worlds of medicine and education, Basheer Jones and Company can start your day on the bright side. Join us Monday through Friday, 6 to 9 AM on NewsTalk 1490 WERE.

Tatum was known as one of the hardest hitters in football history, and the Buckeyes currently honor the best hit of each game with the Jack Tatum Hit of the Week. He served as Ohio State’s honorary captain for the USC game last season

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In part 2 of a series of 3, Basheer discusses hope, and the best ways to keep it alive.  (Part 3 coming on Friday)

The Basheer Jones and Company Morning Show offers an eclectic mix of information and entertainment with a positive, uplifting message every weekday from 6 to 9AM on Newstalk 1490, WERE. “A Few Minutes with Basheer Jones” is just a small taste of this exciting program. With a wide variety of guests, from local and national leaders to authors, entertainers and experts from the worlds of medicine and education, Basheer Jones and Company can start your day on the bright side. Join us Monday through Friday, 6 to 9 AM on NewsTalk 1490 WERE.

In part 1 of a series of 3, Basheer discusses hope, and the best ways to keep it alive.  (Part 2 coming later today, part 3 on Friday)

The Basheer Jones and Company Morning Show offers an eclectic mix of information and entertainment with a positive, uplifting message every weekday from 6 to 9AM on Newstalk 1490, WERE. “A Few Minutes with Basheer Jones” is just a small taste of this exciting program. With a wide variety of guests, from local and national leaders to authors, entertainers and experts from the worlds of medicine and education, Basheer Jones and Company can start your day on the bright side. Join us Monday through Friday, 6 to 9 AM on NewsTalk 1490 WERE.

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Reginald Fields, The Plain Dealer

In her first campaign speech as a candidate for Ohio lieutenant governor, Yvette McGee Brown, running mate of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, highlighted Strickland’s focus on primary education during his first term in office.

She noted that the governor increased school funding by 5.5 percent and that he committed the state to focus on science, technology, engineering and math — or STEM. She then said this focus on education is bringing Ohio national recognition.

“The critics have spoken and every Ohioan should hear what they have to say about our schools,” she said. “The Education Commission of the States gave Ohio its award for the most innovative education reform plan in the nation. Education Week rates Ohio schools in the top five in the nation.”

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Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer

The Obama administration’s decision to sue Arizona over its newly adopted immigration law provoked howls of outrage from Republicans around the country.

While the Justice Department said the lawsuit was needed to avoid racial profiling and stake out the federal government’s role in setting immigration policy, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called it “another instance of hollow, political gamesmanship from a White House unwilling to take the bold action necessary to solve one of the country’s most pressing issues.”

House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio opined that border violence is “out of control,” and that states have “a right and responsibility to ensure order and the safety of their citizens, especially when the federal government is asleep at the wheel.”

Even 13th District Congressional Candidate Tom Ganley of Brecksville got into the act, authoring a column on his campaign website blog that asks: “Why is the Obama Administration Suing Arizona?”

Like Boehner, Ganley said states should step in if the federal government isn’t enforcing immigration laws.

“Interestingly, the Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law,” Ganley continued. “I wonder what part of the federal law the Obama Administration doesn’t like?”

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A dam on an eastern Iowa lake suffered a “catastrophic” failure Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee, officials said.

The Lake Delhi dam, about 45 miles north of Cedar Rapids, failed as a result of “massive rain — a very unusually high amount this season,” according to Jim Flansburg, communications director for Gov. Chet Culver.

Culver told CNN that nearly 10 inches of rain had recently fallen in a 12-hour period in the area and was “too much water for the dam to hold.”

The roads on either side of the dam — which were part of the dam’s containment measures — apparently gave out as a result of the rainfall, Flansburg told CNN.

The National Weather Service reported a 30-foot-wide gap in the berm alongside the dam.

Video showed massive amounts of water violently gushing from the pool behind the dam into the river below. Nearby homes and buildings were under water up to their eaves.

Evacuation sirens sounded about 1 p.m. (2 p.m. ET) for the approximately 700 residents of Hopkinton, who had about five minutes to flee, Flansburg said.

No injuries were reported.

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An alarm system on the Deepwater Horizon had been “inhibited” for about a year before the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and started the worst oil disaster in the nation’s history, the platform’s chief electronics technician testified to a federal panel Friday.

An inhibited mode means sensors for toxic or combustible gases or fire are active and will alert the platform’s computer system, but the computer does not trigger an audible or visual alarm, technician Mike Williams told the six-member panel.

Supervisors on the Transocean rig were aware that the alarm system had been inhibited, Williams said.

“When I discovered about a year ago it was inhibited, I inquired as to why it was inhibited, and the explanation I got is that … they did not want people woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning due to false alarms,” Williams said.

The rig’s general alarm system also has normal and override settings, the technician testified. Under an override setting, the computer will not recognize the sensor information for any purpose, he said.

The alarm system’s visual alerts were on light towers throughout the rig, Williams said. A red light signified fire, a yellow light meant toxic gas, and a blue light indicated combustible gases.

No alarms sounded or could be seen on the light towers the night of the fire, he testified.

The cause of the explosion and subsequent fire that sank the semi-submersible platform two days later has not been determined.

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