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Members of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team line up and wait for the start of the welcome home ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Civic Center Friday afternoon.
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Angie Burkholder points out her husband, SFC Michael Burkholder, to her son Keith, 15 months old, as her husband walks off the bus outside the Veterans Memorial Civic Center Friday afternoon just before the welcome home ceremony for the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. Angie and Keith hadn’t seen Michael since July.
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Ice-laden branches lay in the grass in Cairo after an ice storm hit the area early Friday morning, taking down trees and causing 15,000 residents to lose power.
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Rebecca Larimore, of Lima, grabs for a second American Plastics Kitchen Set just after 5 a.m. Friday at Meijer. The toys were were marked down from $39.99 to $19.99.
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Shoppers huddle around the door at Meijer just before 5 a.m. Friday waiting for employees to bring out American Plastics Kitchen Sets that were marked down from $39.99 to $19.99.
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Happy Thanksgiving from Lima, Ohio.
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Ava, 2, cries out and reaches for her mother as she and her brother Jordan, 3, sit on Santa’s lap Saturday afternoon at the Lima Mall. Santa arrived at the mall - making his first appearance this season - by horse-drawn carriage.
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Liberty-Benton junior defensive back Aaron Craft intercepts a pass meant for Marion Local senior wide receiver Marcus Moeller - making the pass incomplete - during the first half of Saturday night’s Division V state semifinal tournament at Findlay’s Donnell Stadium
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YWCA supporters hold signs during a meeting held by the YWCA board of directors in response to the board’s recent decision to close the aquatic center.
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A Unity Elementary fourth grader, with help from a Lima Senior High Performance JumpStart student, picks items off a table to assemble Christmas shoe boxes filled with toys and toiletries to send to international hospitals, orphanages, shelters and children in impoverished neighborhoods.