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The State of Ohio - Electronic Gaming; Farmland Preservation
 
 
Headlines: Lawmakers grill state educators about how sex offenders ended up teaching in Ohio public schools. Mortgage bankers say the governor's compact to deal with the foreclosure crisis could make things worse.

SEGMENT 1: Electronic slot-type machines are now illegal, and Attorney General Marc Dann explains what happens to those businesses that operate those machines.

SEGMENT 2: The state is still losing farmland, and will host the largest statewide farmland preservation gathering in the country next week to talk about how protecting land could help build the state's economy. Agriculture Department director Robert Boggs and Jill Clark, the director of the center for Farmland Policy Innovation at the Ohio State University, talk about the issue.

HIGHLIGHTS: And though some pumpkin farmers have had it rough, Dan Kirts produced a 700-pound pumpkin that's on display at the governor's mansion this week, after a makeover by expert carver Jeannette Paras of Dublin.
October 26, 2007