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New director at zoo
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The director of the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta has been named the new executive director of the Columbus Zoo.
Jeffery Swanagan will succeed Jerry Borin, who's retiring after being in charge of the zoo since 1992. The zoo's board of directors announced the hiring Tuesday.
Swanagan is a Cleveland native who started his career as a Columbus zookeeper in 1980. He later worked at the zoo in Atlanta and spent four years at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa before becoming head of the Georgia Aquarium in 2002. He will begin his new job in midsummer.
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Threat cancels classes
UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) - Officials in suburban Columbus have canceled Wednesday classes at Upper Arlington High School because of a threat posted on a Web site.
Superintendent Jeffrey Weaver says authorities notified the school district Tuesday about the threat. Weaver said he couldn't describe the nature of the threat because of the ongoing investigation.
Weaver said the decision to close the school was done as a precaution. Police say a student at the school has been taken into custody and is cooperating.
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Pocket of Ohio Republicans voted Democratic in presidential primary
By STEPHEN MAJORS
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The number of Republicans who switched sides to vote for Democrats in Ohio's March 4 presidential primary easily eclipsed President Bush's 120,000-vote margin of victory in the state that decided the presidency four years ago, documents released Monday show.
Although a small portion of total voters, the 173,000 people who previously voted Republican but voted Democratic in the primary could be an important group in the November election, when Ohio is again expected to be crucial.
The party-switching in 85 of Ohio's 88 counties with data available could be a sign of excitement about Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. But not all of these voters can be counted on to again vote Democratic against presumptive Republican nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain.
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In Cleveland, mob fatally beats a man
CLEVELAND (AP) - Even by tough, urban crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.
By the time Charles Gooden Jr., 41, took his final steps, the crime-hardened neighborhood had awakened and two people, talking in matter-of-fact tones, reported a man down, his clothes being dragged off.
"You got a male being assaulted by 15 other guys. He's laying on the street," one 911 caller said.
It happened before dawn on April 27 on a street within a 10-minute drive of the city's skyscrapers, sports venues and tourist attractions, but across a chasm of poverty and crime in the most murder-ridden neighborhood in one of America's poorest cities.
Latangia Anderson, 23, Johnny Brown, 20, and Paris Moore, 19, all of Cleveland, have been charged with aggravated murder and each pleaded not guilty Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Bond was set at $1 million for each.
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