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Gov. John Kasich has ordered flags at public buildings and grounds in the state flown at half-staff in honor of five newspaper journalists slain in…

President Trump proclaimed the gesture "as a mark of solemn respect" for five people killed at the Capital Gazette newsroom. The White House had initially declined to do so, according to the city.

"Today we are speechless," the opinion page of The Capital reads on Friday. But that didn't stop the staff from printing a newspaper, one day after a horrible attack.

The suspect, identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, reportedly has had a long-standing feud with The Capital newspaper for its coverage of a 2011 criminal harassment complaint against him.