Top 5 Stories to Start Your Day

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MLK Prayer Breakfast

ZANESVILLE, OHIO (WHIZ) – Community members gathered Monday at the 21st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer breakfast. 27 students received the MLK, Jr. Book scholarship.

Treehouse Coffee Shop

ZANESVILLE, OHIO (WHIZ) – The Treehouse Coffee Shop has now reopened in its new location. The tree house is now located on the corner of Market and 4th in downtown Zanesville.

Biennium Budget Bill

ZANESVILLE, OHIO (WHIZ) – State legislators will soon begin to sort through Governor John Kasich’s biennium budget bill. The budget must be passed by July 1st, and will involve funding for education and Medicaid.

Fatal Bridge Collapse

CINCINNATI, OHIO (AP) – A construction worker is dead after a bridge being dismantled along I-75 north of Cincinnati downtown collapsed late last night. Police say something went "terribly wrong" in the workplace accident.

Lethal Injection

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) –  Four inmates on Ohio’s death row are asking a court to keep a new law shielding the names of lethal injection drug providers from taking effect in march. One of the inmates’ lawyers says the law is aimed at shutting down one side of debate on the death penalty issue.

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