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Ohio Parole Board sets serial rapist on the prowl

12:42pm Monday, June 07, 2004

June 04, 2004 Cleveland Plain Dealer What does the Ohio Parole Board have against the state's elderly women? As a recent article points out (" Convicted rapist will be paroled, must register ," May 28), a parole board has decided to release a man with a criminal record going back 40 years, including convictions for attempted rape as well as sexual assaults of women aged 72 and 84. In fact, he...

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Man in Wheelchair Robbed

9:18am Monday, June 07, 2004

June 4, 2004 Ohio News Network A disabled man was thrown from his wheelchair and robbed for his disability check overnight in the West End. The neighborhood says it's becoming a trend: Criminals on the prowl at the start of each month when they know welfare, disability, and other checks are issued. Criminals who do this are preying on the weak. Early Wednesday morning in the West End that was...

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Gun carry [licenses] in demand

4:18pm Sunday, June 06, 2004

June 6, 2004 Akron Beacon-Journal Sheriff's departments say applications steady; 320 OK'd in Summit In Summit County, the applications are still coming at the rate of 100 a week -- people who want the right to carry guns. It's been that way since April 7, when Ohio became the 46th state to allow law abiding citizens to carry weapons. The process takes about six weeks. More than 320 applications...

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Op-Ed: Taking aim at fear with a .22-caliber

10:59am Saturday, June 05, 2004

How tragic that it takes being victimized for some liberals to "wake up" on the importance of legalized self-defense, and how tragic that this woman believes a marriage license can protect her. June 2, 2004 Newsday.com By Susan Cheever The afternoon of the day I was attacked, I drove into the nearest town and bought a gun. In the report I had already filed with the police, I described the...

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The System Works

10:19pm Friday, June 04, 2004

June 4, 2004 NewsNet5.com Man Arrested After Lying On Application LOUISVILLE, Ohio -- A man is arrested after he reportedly lied on an application to carry a concealed weapon. According to Stark County Sheriff's officials, while investigating Donald Holmes, 57, it was discovered that he had a criminal background. Holmes, of Louisville, indicated "no" on the application for the question asking...

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Defenseless mall shopping can be deadly

10:00pm Friday, June 04, 2004

Illinois has no concealed carry law. Cook County officials and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley have a habit of penalizing the victim who defends herself with a firearm more harshly than the criminal who perpetrated his crime. So is it any wonder that a crazed man with a knife was able to stab five people and kill a 1-year old baby girl before anyone could stop him? Had this man attacked in an Ohio...

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Store owner cleared in robber's death

8:35am Friday, June 04, 2004

Compiled from news reports by Cincinnati Enquirer , WCPO.com , and the Ohio News Network . June 4, 2004 Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen will not seek criminal charges against a Roselawn convenience-store owner who fatally shot an armed man intending to rob the store May 27. Abdrab "Abe" Ashishi, of West Chester was defending himself when he killed David Billups, 40, of Forest Park, Allen...

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Man protests denial of concealed carry license

8:33am Friday, June 04, 2004

June 4, 2004 Zanesville Times Recorder ZANESVILLE -- Harold E. Newell Jr. stole five cases of beer in 1966, and that youthful indescretion has prevented him from getting his concealed-carry weapon license 38 years later. "I have nothing to hide," said Newell, 56, of Zanesville. "I was a kid; I made a mistake. We confessed to it all, paid the fines and were given probation. But my constitutional...