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EVENING NEWS HEADLINES - SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

NEW LOCAL NEWS

1. PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS

Three men face felony charges after a break-in at a Toledo home led police to a big drug bust. Officers were called to the 24-hundred block of Woodford Street early Sunday morning. when they arrived, they found a large mushroom growing operation. Evidence at the scene led investigators to three other homes in Toledo and one in Whitehouse.

2. OHIO STORM AID

Ohio is getting millions of dollars in grant money from the US Department of Labor to create temporary jobs to help with the cleanup and recovery from severe storms in late June and early July. Today, the agency announced a national emergency grant of up to $21.4 million for Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services. The grant is meant to help the 37 counties deemed eligible for FEMA's public assistance program from the storms. Those include Hancock, Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert counties.

NEW STATE NEWS

3. PRESIDENT BACK IN OHIO

(AP) - President Barack Obama's latest campaign visit to Ohio is focusing on an issue sensitive to a key industry in the state. Several Obama supporters at an afternoon rally in a Columbus park say they want to hear about the president's position on U.S. trade policy with China. General contractor Ronnie Hall says he wants Obama to fight China tooth-and-nail to improve the two country's trade imbalance.

4. LOTTERY TICKET THEFT

(AP) - Authorities investigating the alleged theft of more than $70,000 in lottery tickets from a northwest Ohio convenience store want to question a fired store clerk. The Sandusky Register reports an Erie County deputy says the Milan store owner noticed ticket sales seemed unusually high when the clerk was working.

NEW NATIONAL NEWS

5. ROMNEY'S NEW HEADACHE

(AP) - Mitt Romney is confronting a new headache today. A video has surfaced showing him telling wealthy donors that almost half of all Americans "believe they are victims" entitled to extensive government support. He added that as a candidate for the White House, "my job is not to worry about those people." President Barack Obama's campaign calls the video "shocking."

6. TOPLESS PHOTOS

(AP) - Lawyers for Prince William and wife Kate are asking a French court to block further publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, saying the two were sharing a deeply intimate moment caught by the snap of an intruding photographer. The court says it will announce its ruling at noon Tuesday.

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