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The State of Ohio - Economic Strategic Plan; BCI Headquarters
 
 
HEADLINES: Advocates pushing for seven employer-paid sick days a year for most companies have dropped their campaign. McCain and Obama were back in Ohio this week. The Green Party's presidential candidate will appear on Ohio's November ballot. An appeals court in Ohio says a state tax levied on grocery store sales is unconstitutional. The State Highway Patrol says Labor Day weekend traffic deaths fell 42% in Ohio as law-enforcement agencies had more officers patrolling for drunken drivers.

FEATURE SEGMENT 1: The Ohio Department of Development has put out a strategic plan that it says is the first of its kind. It's a proposal to create jobs and grow the economy but this time, the state says it comes with ways to track how it's doing in those areas.

FEATURE SEGMENT 2: The first part of a rare inside look inside the state's top crime lab, where scientists work alongside detectives to piece together evidence and puzzle out the solutions to terrible crimes.
September 5, 2008