Julie Carr Smyth, Author at Greenfield Recorder

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Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressJuly 13, 2024

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump…

In this Monday, June 8, 2020, photo, a piece of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams is displayed in Worthington, Ohio, in front of a YouTube video of the Atlanta Symphony performing it. The coronavirus pandemic has forced choral singers to raise their single voices in song from isolated settings, singing to audio files or online videos rather than with other singers who have the potential of spreading COVID-19. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

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The singing stopped, and the emptiness arrived

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressJune 12, 2020

A voter fills out his ballot, taking advantage of early voting, Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Steubenville, Ohio. Elections officials in the four states, Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, holding presidential primaries next week say they have no plans to postpone voting amid widespread disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, they are taking extraordinary steps to ensure that voters can cast ballots and polling places are clean. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Ohio plans to delay primary, but 3 states still planned

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated Press, and Terry Spencer Associated PressMarch 16, 2020

In this Oct. 29 photo, Donnesha Cooper touches a photo of her daughter, Alianna DeFreeze, in Cleveland. Her daughter’s murder and the murder of Reagan Tokes had a lot in common. Yet only one victim got a law with her name on it — Tokes, who was white.

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Black victims underrepresented in named violent crime laws

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressDecember 3, 2019

In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, provided by Caltrans, are cars and trucks in stopped traffic on Interstate 5 near Dunsmuir, Calif. A "bomb cyclone," which triggers a rapid drop in air pressure, brought snow to the mountains and wind and rain along the California and Oregon coasts. Drivers on Interstate 5 near the Oregon-California border spent 17 hours or more in stopped traffic as blizzard conditions whirled outside. Some slept in their vehicles. (Caltrans via AP)

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Snow, winds wane after tangling traffic, threatening parade

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressNovember 28, 2019

Jake Lyerla listens as his wife Ashley is interviewed at their home, Tuesday, June 11, 2019, in Milroy, Ind. A federal program to help injured veterans and their spouses conceive children through in vitro fertilization is being hobbled by anti-abortion forces that oppose how the process can lead to embryos being destroyed. Those limitations have been a problem for couples like Jacob and Ashley Lyerla, who needed to use donor sperm and eggs to create viable embryos after three heart-wrenching rounds of IVF using their own genetic material failed. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Abortion arguments at play in limiting vets’ IVF benefit

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressJuly 8, 2019

In this Friday, May 17, 2019 photo, Starr Roden, left, a registered nurse and immunization outreach coordinator with the Knox County Health Department, administers a vaccination to Jonathan Detweiler, 6, at the facility in Mount Vernon, Ohio. States are debating whether to make it more difficult for students to avoid vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons amid the worst measles outbreak in decades, but children using such waivers are outnumbered in many states by those who give no excuse for lacking shots.Data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a majority of unvaccinated or undervaccinated kindergartners in 10 of 27 states reporting were allowed to enroll in school without any exemption. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

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Thousands of US kindergartners unvaccinated

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressMay 28, 2019

A report found that the late Ohio State team doctor Dr. Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male students from the 1970s through the 1990s.

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‘Shocking’: Ohio State doc abused 177; officials were aware

by Kantele Franko Associated Press, and Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressMay 17, 2019

In this Dec. 14, 2017 photo, containers for secure ballot handling sit on pallets at the Franklin County Board of Elections in Columbus, Ohio. The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about Ohio’s efforts to remove inactive voters from its rolls, which has become a flashpoint in a nationwide fight between Democrats and Republicans over access to the polls. The Trump administration is supporting Ohio’s Republican-led government in defending its method for pruning voter rolls. Civil rights groups argue that federal law prohibits states from dropping eligible voters who have chosen not to cast ballots in some elections. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

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Ohio’s move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated Press, and Mark Sherman Associated PressDecember 31, 2017

FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Ronald Phillips, convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron, Ohio. In a brief filed Monday, July 24, 2017, at the U.S. Supreme Court, 15 pharmacology professors argue the impending execution of Phillips should be stopped on grounds that the sedative midazolam is incapable of inducing unconsciousness or preventing severe pain. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)

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Ohio puts child killer to death

by Julie Carr Smyth Associated PressJuly 26, 2017