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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com July 13, 2013

Volume 105, No. 164

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Homeland secretary resigns Napolitano leaves department still in transition

WWII pilot takes one more trip Joseph Dreher soared on the wings of World War II memories Thursday, driven by the roar of vintage B-17 bomber engines. During the war Dreher, now 88 and living in Rocky River, was a radio operator/waist gunner who flew 29 missions over Europe on a B-17 with the U.S. 8th Army Air Forces. See Page 5.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced her resignation Friday to take over the University of California system, leaving behind a huge department still working to adjust to the merger of nearly two dozen agencies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The former Arizona governor came to President Barack Obama’s Cabinet with plans to fix the nation’s broken immigration system, and she is leaving in the midst of a heated battle in Congress over how — or if — that overhaul will be accomplished. The most frequent contact

by most Americans is with the Napolitano has run since the department’s Transportation beginning of the Obama adminSecurity Administration screen- istration, the University of ers at airports. But its char- California system is a giant, ter is much broader: It multilayered organizacomprises agencies that tion, though with a far protect the president, different mission. Her respond to disasters appointment, which and enforce immigration still must be confirmed laws as well as secure by the system’s board air travel. It includes of regents, could trithe Secret Service, ple Napolitano’s salthe Coast Guard, the ary from $199,700 to Federal Emergency around $600,000. She Management Agency, Napolitano said she would stay on Immigration and as secretary until early Customs Enforcement September. and Customs and Border It is not clear whom Obama Protection as well as TSA. may be considering to replace Like the department her.

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Gov. Kasich challenger says Ohioans can protest budget

Coming Preserving the past has brought history back to life inside the quiet gates of two Miami County cemeteries. Last month, hundreds of Miami County gravestones received a face lift. The work revived the history of generations buried in small town cemeteries thanks to a headstone restoration company that recently completed work at Casstown Cemetery and the McKendree Chapel Cemetery, located on Walnut-Grove Road in Elizabeth County.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Friday he wants to Obama to nominate New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly. Unlike the University of California school system, which dates to the 1860s, the Homeland Security Department is just a decade old and at times has seemed in search of a clear mission. Though Napolitano came to Washington with plans to change the immigration system, her tenure is marked with few new sweeping immigration policies. And those she has pushed through were met with great

Staff Photos | Anthony Weber

Jail Administrator Lt. Dave Norman, left, along with Assistant Jail Administrator Sgt. Mike Marion from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office discuss the numerous improvements at the Incarceration Facility on County Road 25-A in Troy.

Incarceration facility ready

Miami County Sheriff’s Office to reopen jail after being closed for three years By Melanie Yingst Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Sheriff’s Office opened the doors of the renovated incarceration facility to the public Friday before officials move inmates to the jail later this month. According to Chief Deputy Dave Duchak, the public had expressed interest in seeing the incarceration facility

and the renovation work after being shut for three and a half years due to $1 million in cuts in the sheriff’s office budget in 2010. One of two alpha pods will open later in the month at the incarceration facility located in the government complex on N. County Rd. 25A after state jail inspections cautioned the sheriff’s office about the downtown jail’s deteriorating conditions which could have shuttered the downtown facility

Third girl aboard Asiana jet dies from injuries SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the disaster was hit by a firetruck. The disclosure about the teen raised the tragic possibility that she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath. No one knows yet whether the two teens lived through the initial impact at the San Francisco airport. But police and fire officials confirmed Friday that Ye Meng Yuan, 16, was hit by a firetruck racing to extinguish the blazing Boeing 777. Her close friend Wang Linjia, also 16, was among a group of passengers who did not get immediate medical help. Rescuers did not spot her until 14 minutes after the crash. The other girl died Friday morning. San Francisco General Hospital said she had been in critical condition since arriving Saturday after the accident. Officials did not identify the girl at the request of her parents. Her age was also withheld.

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all together. The downtown jail will continue to operate holding maximum level inmates and overnight detainees. More than $183,000 in repairs, equipment and supplies was approved to be used in the reopening of the Miami County Incarceration Facility. A roof leak had to be repaired, the shower areas had to be re-tiled and supplies such as office furnishings had

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COLUMBUS (AP) — Opponents of abortion protections hurriedly inserted in Ohio’s state budget are exploring legal challenges and the possibility of forcing lawmakers to vote again on the provisions, the Democratic challenger to Gov. John Kasich said Thursday. Funding cuts to Planned Parenthood and abortion-related restrictions placed on publicly funded hospitals and counselors at taxpayer-funded rape crisis centers are out of step with mainstream Ohio voters, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald said. He said that challenging the entire two-year, $62 billion state budget isn’t an option but that the objectionable elements of the bill could be forced before the Republican-dominated Legislature in January through what’s called an initiated statute. “How about having the debate that was denied?” FitzGerald said at a news conference. “If Gov. Kasich and his Republican allies really believe that these extreme measures when it comes to women’s health were something that the state agreed on, and that (Ohioans) believed in their position, they wouldn’t have done it in the dead of night and inserted it in the 11th hour the way they did.” If the initiated statute were successful, lawmakers would have four months to approve the bill put before them without changes. If they don’t, opponents could put the same legislation

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The Hills are alive …

Staff Photo | Anthony Weber

Country music singer Kellie Pickler performs at the 33rd annual Country Concert on Friday in Fort Loramie. The country music festival will continue through today.

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