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Excerpt from "Between the Lines" column in today's Sunday Register, May 20, 2012: The alleged abuse at the Sandusky County jail happened in January and was first reported by the Register in February. But since then, sheriff Kyle Overmyer reached an agreement with one of the fired jail guards to pay the guard $5,000 to go away, quietly.

“The agreement also stipulates Overmyer and the (fired jail guard) will not make disparaging remarks about each other and will not discuss the settlement.” 

Celebrate the glorious May weather today by checking out a tribute to the month penned by Gertrude Victor, the wife of a Sandusky tavern owner in the mid-1800s.

At some level, gravity is what makes every ride at Cedar Point the ride that it is.

The butterflied stomach you get every time one of Skyhawk’s swings reaches its apex is the lack of gravity giving you what feels like a quick moment of weightlessness.

Karen came into our offices recently with a story which is yet another sad reminder of how the government entities meant to encourage and protect home ownership in America are either looking the other way when it comes to enforcing the rules prohibiting the banks’ bad behavior or have simply just thrown in with the banks altogether. This time, it’s the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which is the culprit.

Cedar Point’s new attraction, Dinosaurs Alive!, is showing some teeth in its early existence.

I just finished a good week.  I was weighed and measured on Friday and my hard work is paying off.  I lost 6 pounds and several inches since my last weigh-in three weeks ago. 

What do you call a colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, hulking, humongous, mammoth, massive dinosaur?

A Thesaurus.

Sorry. That works only on writers and dinosaur enthusiasts.

Let me try another one.

What do you call the new attraction at Cedar Point that has some people unhappy it costs an extra $5?

WildCat is extinct, and animals extinct for 65 million years are back walking the Earth. Just another opening day at Cedar Point.

My wife is not particularly political, but she's very interested in animal rights.

The other day, using a suggested letter that she copied and slightly modified from one posted by an advocacy group, she sent emails to Ohio's two U.S. senators, Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown.

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