Police: Infant died from bite by family’s dog

Police: Infant died from bite by family’s dog

CLEVELAND

Police say a 2-week-old girl in Ohio has died after the family’s German shepherd got loose from a kitchen area where it had been penned in and bit her.

Cleveland police were called to the home on the city’s west side around 6:30 p.m. Friday. The child died several hours later at a Cleveland hospital. Police say the infant was in a first-floor bedroom and suffered head trauma.

The 4-year-old dog was taken to a city kennel. Police will confer with prosecutors about possible criminal charges.

Prosecutor: Fentanyl enough to kill entire city

COLUMBUS

An Ohio county prosecutor says the amount of fentanyl seized from three California men last month was enough to kill the entire population of Columbus.

A Franklin County grand jury on Friday indicted Joel Lassiter, Luis Delgado and Rashaad Williams on aggravated drug-trafficking and drug-possession charges.

Authorities say the men were arrested Oct. 25 in a Columbus hotel parking lot where 2 kilograms (4.5 pounds) of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, was found in the trunk of a car.

Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien says a fatal dose of fentanyl is 2 or 3 milligrams. The population of Columbus is about 860,000 people.

Grant to develop AI

DAYTON

A researcher at the University of Dayton has won an award to develop a brain-inspired computer chip that can learn on its own.

Associate professor Tarek Taha will use the three-year, $44,000 award from the National Science Foundation to work toward his goal of developing an artificial-intelligence chip. Taha says the chip will be more efficient and compact than current ones.

Taha says deep learning artificial-intelligence chips can be used in self-driving cars and could potentially be used in robots at some point.