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From local happenings to national topics and global events, here is the news worth knowing from the week of Oct. 21, 2024. 

Local

Ohio’s first female House speaker, Republican Jo Ann Davidson dead at 97

On Friday, Oct. 25,  Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio’s first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died, according to the Associated Press. She was 97 years-old. 

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend, announced Davidson’s death in a statement, calling her “a model public servant who was full of wit, intelligence, class and skill.”

Throughout her political career of nearly 60 years, Davidson went from being a volunteer in the Columbus suburb to being elected to the local city council, leading the Ohio House and serving as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

National 

CDC announces McDonald’s E. Coli outbreak 

On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the CDC announced the E. Coli outbreak plaguing 13 different states is linked to McDonald’s quarter pounder, according to the Associated Press. At least 75 people are sick, 22 people have been hospitalized, two people developed a dangerous kidney disease and one person died. 

McDonald’s pulled the burger from menus in several states when the outbreak was announced.

Global 

Israeli Airstrikes kills three journalist in Lebanon 

On Friday, Oct. 25, an Israeli airstrike killed three journalists while they were sleeping at a guesthouse in southeast Lebanon, in one of the deadliest attacks on the media since the hostilities broke out across the border a year ago, according to the Associated Press.  

The airstrike was rare for the area that had so far been spared and has been used by the media as a base for covering the war.

Camera operator Ghassan Najjar, Broadcast Technician Mohammed Rida of the Beirut-based pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen TV and Camera Operator Wissam Qassim, who worked for Al-Manar TV of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group were killed.