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Road salt can reduce car accidents on icy winter days. But it often doesn’t stay on the road — and that runoff can harm aquatic life in rivers and lakes as well as damage plants and soil.
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Women Writing for (a) Change, in Silverton, helps people channel their experiences into words. -
WLWT-TV repeats the Paul Dixon Show chicken wedding and retrospectives on Ruth Lyons, while WCET-TV replays a King Records documentary and the Groucho Marx show filmed at Playhouse in the Park. -
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Including whether the Skystar Ferris wheel make a return. -
Trump intensifies blockade of Venezuela-linked oil tankers, DOJ releases more Epstein files, but lawmakers blast delay, analysis shows skyrocketing amount of "no shows" in immigration courts.
