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Jury deliberates in Ohio microwaved-baby case


In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, China Arnold sits in a Montgomery County courtroom during a break in jury selection in Dayton, Ohio. A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death, a prosecutor said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, during closing arguments of the woman's retrial. "She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't," Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) _ A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death after a fight with her boyfriend, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.



Defendant China Arnold and her boyfriend had argued over whether he was the biological father, Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said during closing arguments in the woman's three-week retrial. The argument got so intense that Arnold bit her boyfriend's lip and he slapped her, Brandt said.



Arnold later told a cellmate she put the infant in the microwave and turned it on because she was worried her boyfriend would leave her if he found out the child wasn't his, Brandt said.



"She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't," he said. "We know she used that microwave as the instrument of death.

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GM declines Ohio's $56M offer to keep plant open

August 29, 2008

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) _ The Ohio Department of Development says General Motors Corp.

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Document: Blood found in Ohio home

August 29, 2008

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) _ A search warrant shows blood stains were found in the southwest Ohio home of a man accused in the bathtub-drowning death of his wife.

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P&G SEC filing confirms antitrust probes

August 29, 2008

CINCINNATI (AP) _ Procter & Gamble Co. says in a federal filing that United Kingdom authorities are investigating potential antitrust violations involving an unnamed P&G subsidiary.

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GOP, Dem secretary of state square off in Ohio

August 29, 2008

CINCINNATI (AP) _ The state's Democratic elections chief accused Republican leaders in the Ohio Legislature of 'interference with the election process' on Thursday in a letter that continued a feud ov

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3rd panel to decide fate of W.Va. woman vet statue

August 29, 2008

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) _ Nearly 10 years and two wars later, West Virginia is revisiting plans to erect a monument to honor its female military veterans.

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