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Medical marijuana issue clears Ohio ballot board

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 06:56 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A proposed constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana and certain uses of hemp has cleared Ohio's ballot board.

The panel's approval Thursday sends the issue into its signature-gathering phase, with a 2014 vote most likely. The deadline for this fall's ballot is July 6.


With 3 women freed, Cleveland police seeking tips

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 06:21 PM

CLEVELAND (AP) — Police investigators returned to the Cleveland neighborhood where three women were held captive in a house for a decade hoping to get tips on unsolved missing-person cases.

Cleveland city and public transit police and the FBI sponsored Thursday evening's event called a "Night Out For Missing Persons." There were two locations, one on Cleveland's east side and the west side street where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped to freedom May 6.


Ohio school board considers creationism curriculum

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 05:59 PM

SPRINGBORO, Ohio (AP) — A civil rights group is asking a southwest Ohio school district to abandon proposed policies that teach creationism in the classroom.

The Springboro School Board is considering whether to include creationism in its curriculum and is slated to discuss the issue at a meeting Thursday night.

The board previously weighed the matter in 2011 but abandoned the idea amid public pressure.


Government reporter Garcia Cano joins AP in Ohio

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 05:03 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Regina Garcia Cano, who has covered such issues as medical marijuana, pensions and gas drilling for The Associated Press in Illinois, has been hired to work in the cooperative's Columbus bureau. She will begin the temporary assignment June 10.

The appointment was announced Thursday by Karen Testa, editor for the AP's East region, and Deb Martin, news editor for Ohio.

A bilingual native of Mexico City, Garcia Cano is a master's candidate at the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield.


18 charged in alleged Ohio heroin trafficking case

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 03:26 PM

CINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities have broken up an alleged heroin trafficking scheme involving 18 people, who are accused of delivering the drug from Dayton to Portsmouth in southern Ohio.

A 29-count indictment unsealed in Cincinnati federal court on Thursday says the suspects conspired to deliver heroin over a two-year period, in which they distributed the drug out of seven Portsmouth locations. Law enforcement officials said two of those places were motels.


House Dems seek changes to JobsOhio oversight

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 02:40 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democrats in the Ohio House are proposing a series of reforms they say will make Gov. John Kasich's (KAY'-siks) private nonprofit job-creation office, JobsOhio, more accountable to the public.

Legislation detailed Thursday would subject JobsOhio to state ethics and public records standards applied to traditional state government agencies, open the agency to public audits and state watchdog investigations, and require web tracking of JobsOhio's finances.


Ohio family gets $4 million in mom's death by tree

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 01:11 PM

CINCINNATI (AP) — A court has ordered Ohio's transportation department to pay $4 million to the family of a woman killed the day after Christmas in 2008 when a tree fell on her car while she was driving with her 5-year-old son

The Ohio Court of Claims previously found that the Department of Transportation was negligent and liable for the death of 40-year-old Traci Reed of New Concord in eastern Ohio.


2 men charged in slayings of 4 in NE Ohio townhome

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 11:40 AM

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Two men have been charged with murder in the killings of four young people whose bodies were found in a townhome in northeast Ohio last month.

Akron police filed four counts each of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery on Thursday against 21-year-olds Deshanon Haywood and Derrick Brantley, both of Akron.

Municipal court arraignments are scheduled for Friday morning. No attorneys are listed for the men in the online court docket.


Toledo police kill man holding shotgun

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 07:32 AM

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Toledo police say an officer fatally shot a man who was holding a shotgun on a woman.

It happened just before 1 a.m. Thursday when officers patrolling the area came across the man standing over the women in front of a home with the 12-gauge shotgun pointed at her face.

Police said the man — identified as 43-year-old Thomas Bean —refused to drop the weapon as ordered by officers, and then pointed it at them. That's when one of the officers fired several shots at him.


Man gets jail for stealing pottery from OSU

POSTED BY: Associated Press
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 07:20 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man who admitted stealing rare pottery from Ohio State University and selling it to an antiques dealer has been sentenced to eight months in jail.

A judge in Columbus sentenced 56-year-old Christopher Mark Skeen on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property.

Skeen told the judge he was "strung out on heroin" when he took the pieces from a display case in a university library. A prosecutor said he sold them Oct. 16 to an antiques dealer for $300.


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