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WILMINGTON — Air Transport Services Group’s Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services unit has acquired PEMCO World Air Services, a privately held provider of outsourced maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};

CLEVELAND — Cleveland officials say a tugboat is being used to break up ice on Lake Erie as divers resume their search for a plane carrying six people that disappeared.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Registration is open for the 2017 Ohio Safety Congress & Expo, which will be held March 8-10 in the Greater Columbus Convention Center.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-BUSINESS","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-BUSINESS"};

Ohio Gov. John Kasich soon will have another seat to fill on the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Commissioner Lynn Slaby, a Republican whose five-year term expires in April, wrote Kasich today that he will not seek reappointment, preferring to "move on to another adventure."adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

CINCINNATI — Police say one person has been killed and another critically wounded after an altercation at a social services mission in Cincinnati.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

During a technological refit of his courtroom a dozen or so years ago, U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley was told there were a number of options available to judges to mask sidebar conversations with attorneys so jurors couldn't overhear.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Columbus schools are planning to expand “selective admission,” in which students who maintain good grades receive preference for admission to certain schools, including the district’s new Africentric Early College campus. But first the district will need the state to again waive a law that prohibits using academic requirements for admission to public school buildings.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

A joint celebration of life service has been set for a father and daughter who were close in life and together in death. Brian Sean Casey, 50, and Megan Elizabeth Casey, 19, were among the six people aboard when their plane crashed into Lake Erie on Dec. 29. At 2 p.m. on Sunday, there will be a service for both of them at the Liberty Presbyterian Church in Delaware County, where they were active members.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

A Logan County man died as a result of injuries suffered in a crash on Route 37 in northern Delaware County early Sunday morning.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

Tax cheats, or those who innocently fail to pay, are sometimes offered an enticement to pay up. Marysville is the latest city to offer an amnesty program to those who have failed to file personal income tax returns.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};