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Afternoon Briefing

Schools resume after Ohio murders

IRONTON — Classes in an Ohio school district are set to resume after the fatal shootings of three adults and a 7-year-old boy in southern Ohio’s Lawrence County.

Rock Hill Local School Superintendent Wes Hairston says classes resumed today after being canceled Thursday and Friday.

Rock Hill second-grader Devin Holston was killed Wednesday in the unincorporated area of Pedro along with his mother, 28-year-old Stacey Jackson, and grandparents, 50-year-old Donald McGuire and 43-year-old Tammie McGuire. His father, 29-year-old Todd Holston, survived a stabbing attack.

Twenty-three-year-old Arron Lawson was arrested Friday after a manhunt and has been charged with aggravated murder and murder.

Hairston says grief counselors will be available to students as the district mourns.

Pedro is about 110 miles south of Columbus.

Child drowns in cooking grease trap

AUBURN, Ala. — Authorities say a 3-year-old girl is dead after she fell into a grease pit at an Alabama ice cream shop and drowned.

The Opelika-Auburn News reports the girl’s body was pulled Saturday from an in-ground container used to trap cooking grease at Brewster’s Real Ice Cream in Auburn.

Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said in a news release the death appears to be an accidental drowning. He said video evidence from the scene showed the girl playing with siblings when she apparently fell through a lid covering a grease pit on the ice cream parlor’s property.

Harris said the girl was found several minutes later inside the grease container, which was 6 feet deep. He said no foul play is suspected.

Folsom trail salutes Johnny Cash

FOLSOM, Calif. — The California city of Folsom has completed the second section of its “Johnny Cash Trail” that that pays tribute to the country music icon and his 1968 album “At Folsom Prison.”

Cash’s daughter Cindy Cash gave an emotional speech as she cut the ribbon at Saturday’s event, which included a festival, fun runs and a community bike ride.

The first section of the 2.5-mile trail opened three years ago. The second phase completes the biking section of the trail, which traverses prison property and links to other area trails. Folsom still plans to install large pieces of art that will tell Johnny Cash’s story.

Cindy Cash choked up as she spoke of her father’s humble nature and how honored he would have been by the event.

Kasich: Trump action hurts people

WASHINGTON — Ohio Gov. John Kasich says President Donald Trump’s move last week to cut subsidies to health insurers will ultimately hurt people who won’t be able to afford coverage.

Kasich appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Ohio is one of the states that expanded Medicaid coverage under President Barack Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care Act, leading to more than 700,000 Ohioans obtaining health insurance.

Subsidies to insurers help reduce the cost some people pay for health care.

Kasich has been critical of fellow Republicans’ unsuccessful efforts in Congress to repeal and replace the ACA. Kasich on Sunday criticized congressional Democrats as well for “walking away from the table” and not seeking a compromise after the last failed repeal effort.

Rig explodes on Lake Pontchartrain

KENNER, La. — A Louisiana police department says an oil rig has exploded in Lake Pontchartrain in St. Charles Parish.

Kenner Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian McGregor said Sunday evening that rescue boats were being sent from the Kenner Boat Launch, and that officials with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are assisting.

McGregor says there were “a lot of injuries” with at least six confirmed and more expected. He says many of the injuries were serious.

By The Associated Press

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