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One week after Mayor Sharetta Smith addressed Lima City Council about Haitian immigration, the Neighborhood Concerns Committee met inside Council Chambers to discuss what exactly is the definition of a family. At Monday night's meeting, Lima City Law Director, Tony Geiger, explained that the current definition of family in lima is quote "any number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit and doing their own cooking on the premises." Councilors brought forth the problem of people overcrowding in single family homes that first primarily involved college students but now affects the recent influx of Haitian immigrants to Lima with council investigating a possible family definition change. One Haitian immigrant, Amos Mercelin, attended the meeting where he spoke to Your Hometown Stations about his current experiences and why he fled Haiti.

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March 7, 2024 Press Release from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation hopes to spark new leads in the 2006 disappearance of a central Ohio man with the release of a new image showing what he might look like today.

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Average gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 8.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.22/g today, according to GasBuddy's survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 4.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 51.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has fallen 4.2 cents in the last week and stands at $4.34 per gallon.

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Three days a week for four weeks, students will gather together to participate in community service, field trips, gardening, games, and crafts. They will also gain practical knowledge about topics such as financial literacy and cooking. YWCA youth coordinator Gwenda Bevis emphasized that the camp is free and provides a fun environment to learn something. On the first day, the teens got to know each other with icebreakers.

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Maybe you're the healthy eater or the marathon runner in your family. But even if you're doing everything right, there may be threats of serious diseases hidden in your DNA. Barb Consiglio shows how the latest version of an easy online tool employs technology to assess your genetic past, identify your future risks and allow you to take control of your health. The family health risk calculator was developed by medical experts and data scientists at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and its comprehensive cancer center.

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Students at Heir Force Community School had their second opportunity this school year to engage with the Rhodes State Mobile Lab. The experience shows students how subjects learned in the classroom are applied in fields like medicine, engineering, and technology. The lab provides students with high-tech learning with a virtual 3D cadaver table like you'd see at a hospital, industrial robots, and also virtual zSpace computers, which students found most fascinating.