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Meyer names Hartline interim receivers coach

Former Buckeye receiver and seven-year NFL veteran Brian Hartline will be the team’s interim wide receivers coach, replacing Zach Smith, who was fired earlier this week, Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer announced Thursday.

Caveat fairgoer

As the Ohio State Fair begins its 12-day run at the Expo Center on the North Side, visitors are being reminded to be wise consumers when they encounter those irresistible bargains on the midway or in the fair’s numerous commercial buildings.

Man’s abduction of infant prompts Amber Alert

A 27-year-old man was captured in a wooded area outside Mansfield Wednesday, hours after he pistol-whipped the mother of his infant son and drove away with the child, triggering a statewide Amber Alert.

Men on motorcycle arrested with stolen fish tank

Police in northeast Ohio say two men on a motorcycle, with the passenger holding a large, boxed fish tank, have been arrested after an officer passed them while responding to a pet store’s report of a stolen aquarium.

Reds 7, Cardinals 3

Eugenio Suarez and Tucker Barnhart hit two-run homers as the Reds whipped the Cardinals, 7-3.

Clippers 3, Red Sox 1

Yandy Diaz knocked in the go-ahead run in the eighth and then scored the insurance as the Clippers beat the Red Sox, 3-1, to even a three-game series at two games apiece.