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Toledo, Ohio – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation introduced the bipartisan Gold Star Spouse Healthcare Enhancement Act.
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Inventor’s likeness is unveiled
By TRACIE MAURIELLO | BLOCK NEWS ALLIANCE
WASHINGTON — He’s Ohio’s homegrown son, but other states have claims to Thomas Edison as well.
By Sabrina Eaton -- Plain Dealer
WASHINGTON - A service dog named Liberty has liberated retired Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Garvey of Maryland from some of the post traumatic stress disorder symptoms he experienced upon returning home from Afghanistan.
"He is my grounding rod, he calms me down so quickly," said Garvey. "If I ever get disoriented, he is like my little rock."
By Jessica Wehrman & Jana Heigl -- The Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON — During Thomas Alva Edison’s youth in northern Ohio's Milan, he was known as a restless and imaginative boy whose teacher nevertheless reported to his mother that he was “addled” and “too stupid to learn.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Everyone wanted a piece of Thomas Alva Edison on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking at a U.S. Capitol dedication ceremony for a statue of the prolific inventor from tiny Milan, Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recalled Edison's time working in a Kentucky telegraph office.
Sheet covering new Edison statue falls off just before the dedication ceremony -
Guests at the dedication of the Thomas Edison statue in the Capitol on Wednesday got a sneak peak — by mistake.