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OHIO

Police shoot, kill man who broke into home

STOW — Police shot and killed a man they say broke into the home of his girlfriend armed with a shotgun.

Stow police Capt. Rick Myers says John Rose, 21, was shot three times in the stomach and chest early Saturday.

Myers says Rose broke into a house in Stow in suburban Akron and demanded to see his 19-year-old girlfriend.

Myers says Rose got into a fight with the girl’s 56-year-old father, whom he threatened to kill.

Rose was shot when police entered the house and he pointed the shotgun at police and refused to lower it on their orders.

Boy drowns in waterpark

SANDUSKY — Investigators say a 3-year-old boy has drowned in an outdoor pool at a private waterpark in Ohio.

Capt. Paul Sigsworth of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office says the boy drowned Sunday afternoon at the Kalahari Resorts waterpark in Sandusky on Lake Erie.

Sigsworth says the waterpark has lifeguards on duty.

Kalahari spokeswoman Staci Graber said she could not immediately comment.

The company’s Web site says the Sandusky waterpark is the nation’s largest indoor waterpark at 173,000 square feet.

Double homicide probed northwest of Dayton

UNION — Police are investigating the slaying of a married couple near Dayton.

Investigators say the couple was killed in the village of Union northwest of Dayton on Saturday night.

Police say they have a person of interest in custody.

Company gets grant to recycle truck tires

MINERVA — A large tire recycler has received a state grant to allow it to grind up truck tires, which are too big for the company’s regular equipment.

Liberty Tire Recycling in Minerva will use the $350,000 grant from the Department of Natural Resources to buy a 500-horsepower machine for the big tires.

The machine will allow the company to grind 100-pound truck tires and tires from tractors which can often weigh much more.

The average car tire weighs about 20 pounds.

The company grinds up about 100 tons of used tires a day and hopes to boost that to 150 tons by seeking out truck tires.

PENNSYLVANIA

21 drug arrests made at ’music church’ event

MOUNT PLEASANT — Authorities arrested 21 people and seized large amounts of drugs and paraphernalia at a concert held by a nondenominational Christian church that says its music events are religious services.

Police executed a search warrant Saturday during the second day of a three-day “Funk Fest” event organized by the Church of Universal Love and Music, said Assistant District Attorney Mark Brooks, coordinator of the Fayette County Drug Task Force.

Authorities asked a judge for the warrant after undercover officers attending separate events in May and July witnessed people openly selling and using drugs and “head shops” selling drug paraphernalia, Brooks said.

Under a settlement of a federal religious-rights lawsuit against the county, the church was allowed to have a limited number of concerts at Pritts’ property in Acme, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The 21 arrested at Saturday’s concert — which was attended by 400 to 500 people — face charges ranging from misdemeanor drug possession to felony possession with intent to deliver. More arrests are possible, Brooks said.

Large amounts of drugs including marijuana, LSD and hallucinogenic mushrooms were collected, Brooks said, but he didn’t say specifically how much.

Associated Press