Coshocton Vet Seeks Supreme Court Help

A Coshocton County military veteran is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to decide if he can defy the local law and keep pet ducks that he says help relieve his post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. A state appeals court in June upheld Darin Welker’s earlier conviction on a minor misdemeanor for violating a ban on keeping farm animals inside the village limits of West Lafayette. He says the half dozen ducks are therapeutic after he served in Iraq with the army and was medically discharged from the Ohio National Guard.