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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who was dressed in a squirrel costume was escorted from the Ohio Statehouse steps on Monday morning while Gov. Ted Strickland, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Mayor Michael Coleman were discussing negative campaigning by Republicans. The squirrel held up a sign that said, "Don't Let Obama + ACORN Steal Ohio." Strickland, Brown and Coleman stood on the Statehouse steps to call for an end to what they called "lying, deceitful ads" by Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, 10TV's Patrick Bell reported. McCain's campaign accuses ACORN, a community activist group that operates nationwide, of perpetrating...

I'm stunned that the American Film Institute failed to include "The Dramatic Chipmunk" in its best 100 movies list. Enjoy.

An adventurous adult male chipmunk is being flown from Marin to Utah in a private plane today to rejoin rodents he left behind after he took a road trip to Terra Linda. The chipmunk, known by staff at WildCare in San Rafael as "chipmunk 1344 from Utah," apparently didn't know he was hitching a ride when he hopped into Dixie Goldsby's Honda Insight while she camped in southeastern Utah a little more than a week ago. Goldsby didn't discover the stowaway until she returned home, and once she was able to catch him she wanted to do the best she...

Wed Jun 4, 3:30 PM ETSenator Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D-N.Y., greets a group of elementary school children on Capitol Hill Wednesday, June 4, 2002. Her new memoirs, titled 'Living History', is scheduled to be released Monday, June 9. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)