ATLANTA — The woman who says she had a long-running extramarital affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a single mother and Atlanta-area businesswoman who has faced repeated financial trouble and once lost a lawsuit accusing her of spreading damaging lies about an ex-business partner.
NEW YORK — The overnight police raids in Philadelphia and Los Angeles that dismantled two of the nation’s biggest Occupy Wall Street encampments leave just a few major “occupations” still going on around the U.S. But activists are already changing tactics and warning of a winter of discontent, with rallies and marches every week.
COLUMBUS — The expected sponsor of a bill that would ban casual ownership of exotic animals in Ohio says it will likely be introduced early next year.
COLUMBUS — The FBI used an email sent by a man later found buried in a shallow Ohio grave in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme to trace his whereabouts, according to a Virginia pastor who knew him well. David Pauley was excited about the job he’d accepted in southeastern Ohio, even though the details seemed a little fishy, said Kenny Bryant, senior pastor at the Tabernacle Church in Norfolk, Va.
COLUMBUS — The pepper spraying of juvenile inmates in September broke numerous state rules and was without exception unwarranted, a court-appointed monitor concluded in a report. The state has argued a violent gang outbreak justified the spraying.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s deer season has gotten off to a soggy start as rain contributed to lower opening-day numbers. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says hunters with guns on Monday bagged 23,600 white-tailed deer. That was down 39 percent compared to the first day of last year’s hunt, when weather conditions were described as “near ideal.”
PHILADELPHIA — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a boy more than 100 times, and threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a new accuser who is not part of the criminal case.
WEST CHESTER — His campaign rocked anew, a feisty Herman Cain claimed a “groundswell of positive support” from backers on Wednesday and accused critics of trying to derail his White House bid as he worked to stem the fallout from allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair.