Sunday Evening Associated Press News Minute - 3/7/2010

Here is the latest Ohio news from The Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Industry analysts say Ohio has missed out on thousands of manufacturing jobs in the solar industry. Gov. Ted Strickland acknowledges that his state was late in constructing policies to attract solar companies. But he says Ohio has progressed and is now competitive in this area.

CLEVELAND (AP) - A cash-strapped historical society in Cleveland has survived by selling off antique cars and other rare artifacts, to the dismay of some. The Western Reserve Historical Society sold the only surviving "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" car of novel and movie fame, for instance. And B. Scott Isquick became angry when it sold a 1949 Indy race car he donated.

GROVE CITY, Pa. (AP) - Although a fire destroyed a historic metal forge in Pennsylvania, Wendell August president Will Knecht says operations will continue online and at the firm's other locations in Pennsylvania and in Berlin, Ohio. The historic forge made ashtrays for the ill-fated German airship the Hindenburg and did custom work for Walt Disney.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Four displaced autoworkers are attending tonight's Academy Awards ceremony to support a documentary that chronicled the closing of a General Motors sport utility vehicle plant near Dayton. HBO's "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant" is nominated for best documentary short.

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