GROVEPORT -- A fire truck, crushed during the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, arrived in central Ohio Friday morning.
A semi-truck hauled FDNY Ladder 18 to Motts Military Museum in Groveport.
Dozens gathered to welcome the artifact, including Karen Russelo, who lost her son, U.S. Army Spc. Vincent James "V.J." Pomante III, to an Improvised Explosive Device in 2006 in Iraq.
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GROVEPORT, Ohio --
Ladder 18, crushed when the twin-towers of the World Trade Center fell, will be permanently displayed at Mott's Museum.
After eight months of red tape, Warren Motts, owner of Motts Military Museum brought a New York City fire truck destroyed during the terrorist attack on 911 to Groveport.
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Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its post-Supreme Court estimates of Obamacare’s impact on the deficit. The headline is that the CBO estimates that states opting out of Medicaid will reduce the deficit by $84 billion from 2012-2022, compared to its previous estimate, and result in 3 million fewer people gaining coverage from the law. The CBO also estimated that repealing the law would be less costly than previously assumed. Let’s scratch under the surface and see what we can glean about the CBO’s thinking.
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The nation’s largest credit-reporting agencies soon will be required to show a federal consumer-protection agency what is under the hood of their massive operations that affect the financial lives of nearly all Americans.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has adopted a rule that formally allows it to supervise what the industry calls the Big Three — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — and other credit-reporting agencies, beginning on Sept. 30.
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Rep. Steve Stivers, a Republican who represents Madison County as part of Ohio’s 15th Congressional District, introduced legislation last week to name the London Post Office at 25 S. Oak St., in memory of Marine Lance Corporal Josh McDaniels.
The 21-year-old McDaniels was killed in action on June 12, 2011, while serving with a mine detection unit in Helmand Province in Afghanistan
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Rep. Steve Stivers introduced legislation to name post offices after three Ohio service members who died in Afghanistan.
The bill would name the post office in London after Marine Lance Cpl. Josh McDaniels, who died on June 12, 2011. McDaniels, 21, was from Dublin and raised in Madison County. The facility at 25 S. Oak St. would be renamed the Lance Cpl. Joshua B. McDaniels and Veterans Memorial Post Office Building.
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A key highway project in central Ohio has received a $16 million federal grant, Sen. Sherrod Brown announced yesterday.
The East-West Connector in Pickaway County — which will improve the roads around Rickenbacker Airport and the adjacent shipping and warehousing hub and link it to Rt. 23 — has received a coveted TIGER grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The project is intended to relieve truck congestion south of Columbus. The federal government has previously announced such grants for a streetcar project in Cincinnati and a light-rail station in Cleveland.
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A year after his wife died of breast cancer, a Delaware man appeared with American Cancer Society officials to help recruit participants for a large-scale, national cancer-prevention study.
“Hopefully, we can rally the number of folks needed for this study,” said Jim Rosenberry, 48, an American Cancer Society volunteer who used to work for Cardinal Health.
Doctors diagnosed Brenda Rosenberry’s cancer in 2008 and lymphoma in his now 9-year-old daughter, Jill, in 2007.
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The American Cancer society is launching a long-term, nationwide study to learn about genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors that cause or prevent cancer, 10TV’s AJ Smith reported on Tuesday.
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