TOLEDO — Developers of Ohio’s newest casino think they’ll do just fine competing for gamblers with Detroit’s three casinos, even without the spas, hotels and big-name concerts found just up the road.
Robert Mack killed a Mount Airy man in a shootout in 2007. Jonathan Seals shot his mother’s boyfriend to death in Springfield. Justin Stephan used a knife and a brick in a thrill killing in Tuscarawas County. The hands of these men have committed the unthinkable. Now, they are armed with a flexible plastic crochet hook instead of tools of violence. Now, these tainted hands are doing good.
COLUMBUS — Ohio drivers would be banned from texting, and teens couldn’t use their cellphones, iPads or other electronics behind the wheel under a bill that the Ohio Senate passed on Thursday. Some state senators argued the legislation chips away at personal freedom, while others said it doesn’t go far enough to target distracted driving.
CLEVELAND — A fugitive on the run for more than two years has been arrested on accusations that he ran a scam that collected $100 million in donations from people in dozens of states who believed they were helping U.S. Navy veterans, Ohio’s attorney general and the U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday.
COLUMBUS — Another trial of alleged pill mill operators begins Tuesday, one that will highlight the connections between the roots of the state’s painkiller epidemic in southern Ohio and the 90-mile trip many addicts took north to Columbus when their source for prescriptions dried up.
WEST CHESTER — One by one, the parents of Lakota Schools came down the auditorium steps to stand before the microphone. Some were dressed in business attire; shirt-and-tie, sport coats, dresses. Others were casual, in jeans and T-shirts.
The female Delaware County Sheriff’s Office deputy tied to former sheriff Walter L. Davis III through the scandal that led him to resign earlier this month will not be patrolling the county’s roads anymore.
WASHINGTON — A yearlong experiment with competitive bidding for power wheelchairs, diabetic supplies and other personal medical equipment produced $200 million in savings for Medicare, and government officials said Wednesday they are expanding the pilot program in search of even greater dividends.