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kTAKE A LOOK back at the best comics and comic-book movies of 2004.
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NATION
Big bandleader dies
k ARTIE SHAW, clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the big-band era, died Thursday at 94.
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LOCAL
New digs for patrolin Trumbull County
kTHE TRUMBULL COUNTY Sheriff's Department road patrol is getting a new home, effective Saturday.
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Homicide charge
kTHOMAS V. OWENS, 22, of Youngstown has been charged with negligent homicide in the shooting death of his 41-year-old friend.
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BUSINESS
Ups and downsin '04 Pa. economy
kPENNSYLVANIA is expected to end 2004 with a gain in jobs, but its manufacturing sector continues to slide.
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OPINION
Ohio must getaggressive on dump
kOHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL Betty Montgomery must not waver on a demand that past problems at a Warren landfill be addressed. A Vindicator editorial.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Singer's seesaw year
k2004 was a good year and a bad year for R & amp;B singer Teena Marie. The 48-year-old made a successful musical comeback, but her collaborator Rick James died.
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