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State lawmakers considering legislation to protect patients after case of serial killer nurse
State lawmakers are taking steps to try to protect vulnerable residents living in nursing home facilities. It comes after a former nurse was sentenced for harming and killing patients at nursing homes across several local counties.
Bantam Jeep Festival rumbles into Butler County
A couple years ago, Theresa Putnam began to notice a new phenomenon at the annual Bantam Jeep Festival near Slippery Rock — someone was leaving little rubber ducks on Jeeps. “We started talking to people, and we found out it meant we’d been ‘ducked,’” said Putnam, a Dayton, Ohio, resident who’s been attending the festival since it started alongside her husband, Steve, who brought along his 1988 Jeep Laredo.
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