Saturday Evening Associated Press News Minute - 11/21/2009

Here is the latest Ohio news from The Associated Press

URBANA, Ohio (AP) - A western Ohio university is celebrating the International Year of Astronomy by displaying never-before-seen photos from NASA space telescopes. NASA chose Urbana University as a display site Monday for the images of the Milky Way from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The state's largest teachers union and the Ohio Republican Party have gone to court over a GOP request for the names and addresses of all educators. Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine says the party wants to be able to reach out to teachers; the union says it violates teachers' privacy.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's unemployment rate has gone up for the first time in three months, to 10.5 percent in October from 10.1 percent in September. Ohio joblessness had fallen in both August and September. Officials say the reason was that job seekers were getting discouraged and dropping out of the labor force.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio woman attempted to commit suicide immediately after her conviction on charges that she abused her five adopted children, accusations she denied. Prosecutors say she hit the children with hammers and sticks until they bled and burned them with irons between 2000 and 2004. Ferguson says she used mild forms of corporal punishment.

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