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DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria announced Sunday that it will attend the Annapolis summit on Mideast peace, saying it would send its deputy foreign minister because the future of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights had been put on the agenda. The official news agency, SANA, said Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad would travel to the U.S.-backed conference, [...]

COLUMBUS – The Ohio Historical Society wants to unload one-third of the sites that it operates to ease the cost of maintaining its roster. The society, a nonprofit group that gets most of its money from the state, operates 60 historical sites around the state, but it wants to transfer ownership of 20 of them [...]

ATLANTA – Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend swarmed airports Sunday, but for the most part without the long lines and delays many had feared. In Atlanta, home to one of the nation`s busiest airports, rainy weather delayed some incoming flights more than two hours, though lines were moving, said Herschel Grangent, spokesman [...]

Deputies searching for female inmate ELYRIA – Sheriff`s deputies late Sunday were seeking an inmate who escaped while serving time for a drug offense at Lorain-Medina Community Based Correction Facility. Sherri Baker, 30, of Elyria, was at a meeting as part of her treatment at another facility on Lowell Street when she asked to use [...]