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SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.

LIMA — The Lima Astronomical Society encourages you to enjoy the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse. You just won’t be able to do it at Lima’s Schoonover Observatory.

RUSSELLS POINT — People recovering from a deadly tornado at Indian Lake had an opportunity to sit back and reflect Sunday.

LIMA — Police are looking for information about an Easter morning shooting that left three people hospitalized in serious condition.

RUSSELS POINT — A nearly 20-foot tall statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary that’s been missing since a March 14 tornado hit Indian Lake was recovered from the bottom of the lake Saturday.

TROY — The Miami County Prosecutor’s Office has approved the closing of the Daisy Shelton homicide case which occurred in 1964.

Northwest Ohio is gearing up to celebrate the celestial anomaly of a total solar eclipse with a totally full calendar of area events.

ROME — Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 30,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.

WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump campaigns on promises of mass deportations and pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, his ideas are being met with little pushback and some enthusiasm by a new era of Republicans in Congress.