Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsChristopher Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62

WASHINGTON (AP) - Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right and wrote the provocative best-seller "God is Not Great," died Thursday night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.