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Former AP sports writer Stephan Nasstrom dead at age 70

By The Associated Press Jul. 21, 2021 05:10 PM EDT
Stephan Nasstrom, who spent nearly 40 years covering sports for The Associated Press, has died. He was 70. Nasstrom's family confirmed that...

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Jun. 21, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. June 20, 2021. Editorial: Fairer Ohio redistricting does not include arming one party at taxpayer expense ...

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Jun. 14, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. June 12, 2021. Editorial: Why are the Indians withholding their top name-change options? The...

Presidential candidate Pedro Castillo celebrates partial election results with supporters at his campaign headquarters in Lima, Peru, Monday, June 7, 2021, the day after the runoff election. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Peru's presidential runoff election too close to call

By Regina Garcia Cano And Franklin Briceno Jun. 07, 2021 01:03 AM EDT

A voter arrives to a polling station guarded by police in Tacabamba, Peru, Sunday, June 6, 2021. Peruvians vote Sunday in a presidential run-off election to choose between Pedro Castillo, a political novice who until recently was a rural schoolteacher, and Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
2 polarizing populists vie in Peru's presidential runoff

By Regina Garcia Cano And Franklin Briceno Jun. 06, 2021 12:03 AM EDT

Senate budget plan would end Ohio day care quality mandate

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins Jun. 04, 2021 01:27 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio agencies providing publicly funded day care would no longer have to achieve a quality of care rating to be listed in the state...

Colombia's Matheus Uribe scores his side's second goal against Peru during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the National stadium in Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Colombia vs Peru 6/3/2021

Jun. 04, 2021 12:42 AM EDT

Argentina's Lionel Messi wears a jersey with the number and image of late soccer star Diego Maradona prior to a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying soccer match against Chile in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Thursday, June 3, 2021. (Juan Mabromata, Pool via AP)
Argentina draws after 7-month halt of World Cup qualifiers

Debora Rey Jun. 03, 2021 11:43 PM EDT

Shamans hold a photo of presidential candidate Pedro Castillo of the Free Peru party, as they perform a good luck ritual ahead of the presidential runoff election, at the Cerro San Cristobal in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The June 6 runoff pits Castillo against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic

By Regina Garcia Cano And Franklin Briceno Jun. 03, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

Edilberto Jimenez poses with one of his drawings at his home in San Juan de Lurigancho, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Jimenez compiled in a book his interpretation of the sufferings that Peruvians have endured during the COVID pandemic that has caused a deepening economic crisis and has killed more than 66,000 people in the Andean country. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Artist publishes 100 drawings from Peru's COVID-19 pandemic

By Franklin Briceño May. 21, 2021 12:00 AM EDT

A child wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus holds a dinosaur shaped balloon walks at a public park in Beijing, Sunday, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
The Latest: Fauci says pandemic highlights racism's impact

By The Associated Press May. 16, 2021 05:45 AM EDT

Retired merchant Victor Coba takes measurements of the tombs he's building for his family at San Lazaro cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. The 72-year-old retired merchant is building graves for himself, his wife and four other relatives in a narrow space in the cemetery after watching learning that two dozen of his neighbors died of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Pandemic triggers new crisis in Peru: lack of cemetery space

By Franklin Briceño May. 15, 2021 06:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, April 8, 2021, file photo, Kent State University student Regan Raeth, of Hudson, Ohio, looks at her vaccination bandage as she waits for 15 minutes after her shot in Kent, Ohio. On Wednesday, May 12, 2021, Gov. Mike DeWine announced the end of the state's mask mandate as new COVID-19 cases decrease and more Ohioans get vaccinated. DeWine said the mask mandate will end June 2 except for nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)
Ohio's million-dollar idea: Lottery prizes for vaccinations

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins May. 12, 2021 01:28 PM EDT

Peru to investigate 'empty syringes' vaccination scandal

May. 11, 2021 08:03 PM EDT
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Health Ministry said Tuesday it is investigating nurses who are accused of trying to inoculate patients with empty syringes during the...

Squatters watch as police tear down their shacks in their recently formed settlement on a hilltop in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood, which had been occupied by mostly people who can no longer pay their rent because of restrictions on economic activity aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Police roust big squatter settlement on edge of Peru capital

Apr. 28, 2021 03:00 PM EDT

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up at a campaign rally in Cayambe, Ecuador, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Lasso, a former banker, and rival Andres Arauz, a protege of former president Rafael Correa, will compete in a second-round vote this coming Sunday, April 11. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Ecuador, Peru to elect presidents amid strengthened pandemic

By Regina Garcia Cano And Mauricio Muñoz Apr. 09, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine gives an update on COVID-19 at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Multiple Ohio local health departments are sounding the alarm about legislation restricting their ability to respond to emergencies such as the coronavirus pandemic. The agency heads laid out their concerns in letters to DeWine on Tuesday, March 24, 2021, documenting how the bill would slow down or block local officials from ordering businesses to close or requiring residents to quarantine or isolate without a medical diagnosis. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
GOP lawmakers give DeWine first override over health bill

By Farnoush Amiri And Andrew Welsh-Huggins Mar. 24, 2021 10:36 AM EDT

A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus

By Carley Petesch And Lori Hinnant Feb. 25, 2021 02:23 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 09:00 AM EST
Elyria Chronicle. Feb. 17, 2021. Editorial: Redistricting just got more complicated Ohio’s experiments in drawing...

A man leaves in a moto-taxi with his full oxygen tank, after waiting for three days for a refill in the poor area of Villa El Salvador, in Lima, Peru, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the people said they have been waiting for two days for refills and are now staying for a third day in an attempt to procure oxygen for their sick relatives. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Anger increases in Peru over secret inoculations of wealthy

By Franklin Briceño Feb. 17, 2021 04:25 PM EST