Ohio Politics

Woman carjacked while on her way to help church friends

3:20pm Wednesday, March 02, 2005
WDTN.com (Dayton’s NBC affiliate) is reporting that a woman was on her way to take some church friends to dinner when she was carjacked at gunpoint. The carjacker put a gun to her head in an alley near Grand Avenue as Joan Franks was taking dinner to her friends. Franks told WDTN it's one of the most frightening things that ever happened to her. "I asked him, please just take my car, and my purse...

LTE: Assault weapons ban is a waste of time

2:33pm Monday, February 28, 2005
February 26, 2005 Columbus Dispatch Columbus City Councilman Michael C. Mentel’s effort to enact a ban on socalled assault weapons has less to do with the safety of residents and police officers and more to do with justifying his existence on City Council as chairman of the Safety and Judiciary Committee. If he truly cared about the safety of citizens and officers in Columbus, he would ban motor...

Day-care centers near sex offenders

2:28pm Monday, February 28, 2005
Apparently, Ohio laws banning sexual predators from school zones and day-care centers work about as well as those banning violent predators with guns... Which is to say they do not work at all. February 24, 2005 Zanesville Times Recorder When Genesis Healthcare Systems chose 534 Taylor St. as the location for its new day-care center, the picturesque neighborhood dotted with small homes and well...

Sheriff of Ashtabula County forced to lay off half of staff

4:05am Friday, February 25, 2005
Cleveland's WKYC (NBC 3) is reporting that there are significant layoffs coming in the Ashtabula County Sheriff's office. From the story: The sheriff laid off more than half of his staff Tuesday because of a budget shortfall. Twenty-six of his 39 deputies got lay-off notices, leaving only 13 to cover Ohio’s largest county. The lay-offs will go into effect March 5th. Elsewhere, the Sandusky...

Thieves steal $18,000 cash from OH Supreme Court justice's car

12:40pm Thursday, February 24, 2005
The Associated Press is reporting today that a total of $18,000 in cash was stolen last week from the state car assigned to Ohio Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell, prompting immediate questions from the Columbus Dispatch and others: Why did a Supreme Court justice have $18,000 sitting in his (state-owned) car? By all accounts to this point, no one can answer the question, and the justice...

Dayton police release transcript of officer's call to dispatcher

7:52am Thursday, February 24, 2005
WHIO-TV is is reporting that a Dayton police officer who shot his wife last week will not be charged, at least not yet. From the story: On Saturday, officers handcuffed Officer Michael Blake and took him into custody for questioning after he called a police dispatch number and said he had shot his wife. According to the call that Blake made, he shot his wife in self-defense. On Monday,...

Lucas Co. jail: Gun, knife found on prisoner

7:51am Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Toledo Blade is reporting that Lucas County jailers found a loaded gun and a knife hidden in the clothing of a prisoner brought in over the weekend by Toledo police. "Somebody made a mistake," Sheriff James Telb told the Toledo Blade last night. "It should have been discovered at the scene of the arrest." The incident is the second in two months in which jailers have found loaded guns on...

GOP candidates for governor will speak at dinner

7:47am Wednesday, February 23, 2005
February 21, 2005 Toledo Blade The three Republican candidates for governor have agreed to address the Lucas County GOP Lincoln Day dinner next month, an early joint appearance in what is promising to be one of the toughest primary races Ohio has seen in decades. The dinner is set for April 13, said Sally Perz, interim party chairman. The appearance of Attorney General James Petro, Secretary of...

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