Ohio Celebrations

Crowds celebrating the end of the school year at Miami University spilled into the streets of Oxford, climbing onto roofs and throwing bottles in what police said was the campus' first major disturbance since the Vietnam War. Police arrested 22 people during the second night of violence near the school in the southwestern part of the state. Twenty-three people were arrested early Friday, the last day of final exams.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mark Henn grew up listening to stories about aviation pioneers and hometown heroes Orville and Wilbur Wright. Awed by tales of the brothers' first manned flight, Henn let his imagination soar every time he looked at an old photograph his grandfather had taken with Orville. So when the 44-year-old Santa Clarita artist began sculpting a few years ago, he knew instantly who would be among his first subjects: the Wright brothers.

John and Annie Glenn returned Saturday to the town they left more than 50 years ago so he could become a pilot and eventually fly into space. Fans lined the narrow sidewalks of their hometown of 2,000 in eastern Ohio's hills to salute the Glenns with a parade celebrating the 77-year-old Glenn's second spaceflight, aboard the shuttle Discovery. It was their second trip down the middle of Main Street. The first came in 1962, after Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.

Hellen and Ellen are trying with much difficulty to make their way to lunch. They can't seem to take a step through the festival crowds without being stopped by someone who wants to shake their hands or take their picture. Wearing matching polka-dot dresses, matching floppy denim hats and matching smiles on their matching faces, the 80-year-old identical twin sisters are a novelty more for their age than their appearance at the annual Twins Day Festival held recently in Twinsburg.

An Army medic back from duty as part of Operation Desert Storm died in a car crash early Monday, just hours after his hometown held a welcome home parade, authorities said. Jeffrey Collins, 25, of New Straitsville, was killed when a car in which he was riding went off the road and rolled over, police said.

Hellen and Ellen are trying with much difficulty to make their way to lunch. They can't seem to take a step through the festival crowds without being stopped by someone who wants to shake their hands or take their picture. Wearing matching polka-dot dresses, matching floppy denim hats and matching smiles on their matching faces, the 80-year-old identical twin sisters are a novelty more for their age than their appearance at the annual Twins Day Festival held recently in Twinsburg.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Mark Henn grew up listening to stories about aviation pioneers and hometown heroes Orville and Wilbur Wright. Awed by tales of the brothers' first manned flight, Henn let his imagination soar every time he looked at an old photograph his grandfather had taken with Orville. So when the 44-year-old Santa Clarita artist began sculpting a few years ago, he knew instantly who would be among his first subjects: the Wright brothers.

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John and Annie Glenn returned Saturday to the town they left more than 50 years ago so he could become a pilot and eventually fly into space. Fans lined the narrow sidewalks of their hometown of 2,000 in eastern Ohio's hills to salute the Glenns with a parade celebrating the 77-year-old Glenn's second spaceflight, aboard the shuttle Discovery. It was their second trip down the middle of Main Street. The first came in 1962, after Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.

Crowds celebrating the end of the school year at Miami University spilled into the streets of Oxford, climbing onto roofs and throwing bottles in what police said was the campus' first major disturbance since the Vietnam War. Police arrested 22 people during the second night of violence near the school in the southwestern part of the state. Twenty-three people were arrested early Friday, the last day of final exams.

An Army medic back from duty as part of Operation Desert Storm died in a car crash early Monday, just hours after his hometown held a welcome home parade, authorities said. Jeffrey Collins, 25, of New Straitsville, was killed when a car in which he was riding went off the road and rolled over, police said.