"Presidential race tightening in Ohio, poll says" October 23, 2012
NEW YORK — The contest in Ohio between President Obama and Mitt Romney has tightened, according to a Quinnipiac University/CBS News poll.
Obama has a 5-point advantage over his opponent among likely voters with 50 percent, to 45 percent for Romney. Last month, in the Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News poll of Ohio, Obama led by 10 points.
In the current survey, only 3 percent remain undecided and 95 percent of those with a preference said their mind was made up. Of people who had voted, 54 percent said they cast their ballot for Obama and 39 percent said they voted for Romney....
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I feel about the same way these people do about the candidates.
On to the rest of the offerings of the Boston Globe:
"Parents accused of forcing kids into plastic boxes" by MITCH STACY | Associated Press, August 04, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio couple were charged this week with punishing their three children by forcing them into plastic boxes sealed with duct tape, with only a square cut in the top for air.
The children, ages 5, 6, and 8, were crammed into the boxes as punishment June 16 at the family’s home in Steubenville while the parents went to the grocery store and left two uncles at home with them, a prosecutor said. A friend of the family arrived at the house, got the children out of the boxes, and contacted police.
The children were in the boxes for about 15 to 30 minutes. There was no indication they had been put in the boxes before, but it was part of a cycle of abuse by the parents that included having weights dropped on their feet, prosecutor Jeffrey J. Bruzzese said.
James Allen Taylor, 29, and stepmother Samantha Marie Taylor, 26, were indicted this week by a Jefferson County grand jury on charges of endangering children and unlawful restraint.
Each also faced another endangering count related to “ongoing corporal punishment practices of the family.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A northeast Ohio man brought a gun, ammunition, and several knives to a showing of the latest Batman movie because he wanted to protect himself in case someone tried to replicate last month’s deadly Colorado theater shooting, his attorney said Tuesday.
Haven't seen it, nor do I intend to.
Scott A. Smith, 37, had no intention of causing harm or inducing panic when he brought the weapons to a Saturday showing of ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises,’’ said his attorney, Matthew Bruce.
‘‘With the recent shooting in Colorado, and the other incidents around the country in regards to threats, he felt that he needed protection,’’ Bruce said.
Bruce said he was referring to movie theater threats made after the deadly July 20 shooting in Aurora, Colo., where a 24-year-old man is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 at a midnight showing of the same movie.
Bruce said his client ‘‘felt a sense of fear’’ about going to a theater, and chose the Batman movie by coincidence.
Mine is having to sit through an hour or more of Hollywood garbage. That's why I never go to the movies anymore.
Smith brought the weapons to a Regal Cinemas theater in Westlake, just outside of Cleveland, and seated himself in the middle of the back row of the theater, a half hour before the movie started, police said.
Talk about DRAWING ATTENTION TO YOURSELF! This guy an agenda-pushing intelligence operative or.... ?
A theater manager and an off-duty police officer working security stopped Smith after they became suspicious of a bag he was carrying, said Westlake Police Lieutenant Ray Arcuri.
‘‘Why pick that movie? Why that theater? Why sit in the back all the way like that? Why bring the gun?’’ he said. ‘‘There’s several unanswered questions.’’
Yeah, there sure are, like what is that stinking stench?
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Related: Conn. lawyer with gun at Batman movie arrested
Also see: Aurora Borebullshit
I've stopped smelling it.
"Hospital shooting may have been mercy killing" by John Seewer and Thomas J. Sheeran | Associated Press, August 13, 2012
CLEVELAND — John Wise watched a tear roll down his wife’s face as he stood alongside her bed in the intensive care unit. She had been unable to speak after suffering a stroke and seemed to be blinking to acknowledge him, Wise confided to a friend who had driven him to the hospital.
The couple had been married 45 years and Wise told his friend that they had agreed long ago they did not want to live out their years bedridden and disabled.
So a week after Barbara Wise’s stroke, investigators say, her husband fired a single round into her head. She died the next day, leading prosecutors to charge the 66-year-old man with aggravated murder Wednesday in what police suspect was a mercy killing.
The shooting leaves authorities in a dilemma some experts say will happen with greater frequency in coming years as the baby boom generation ages — what is the appropriate punishment when a relative kills a loved one to end their suffering?
Maybe the time has come for assisted suicide so people can avoid these types of decisions and actions. Vote yes on two, Massachusetts.
More often than not, a husband who kills an ailing wife never goes to trial and lands a plea deal with a sentence that carries no more than a few years in prison, research has shown.
‘‘It’s a tragedy all around that the law really isn’t designed to address,’’ said Mike Benza, who teaches law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
A New York man in March was sentenced to six months in jail after suffocating his 98-year-old disabled mother and slitting his own wrists. He told authorities he had just been told he had cancer and believed he was going to die soon, and feared no one would care for his mom. A Washington state man accused of shooting his terminally ill wife this year told investigators she had begged him to kill her; he is free on bail while prosecutors weigh charges.
Almost always, there are deeper issues involved with the accused, including depression, their own health problems, and the stress of taking care of a dying spouse, said Donna Cohen, head of the Violence and Injury Prevention Program at the University of South Florida.
Seeing a dying or disabled spouse suffering can be enough to push someone over the edge, said Cohen, who is writing a book called ‘‘Caregivers Who Kill.’’
‘‘Men will hit a wall when they can’t do anything else,’’ she said. ‘‘That’s usually a trigger.’’
She worries this will happen more often with longer life expectancies and a continuing shortage of mental health services for older people....
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As heartbreaking as it is there is an element of love there.
Related:
"A man has been sentenced to 92 years to life in prison for a fraternity house shooting in Ohio last year that left one man dead and 11 others wounded."
I guess it all depends on who you shoot in Ohio.
"Amish man gets 30-day jail sentence in teen’s death" by Mitch Stacy | Associated Press, September 13, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio Amish man who fired a shot into the air that killed a 15-year-old girl driving a horse-drawn buggy more than a mile away will go to jail for 30 days, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Marion Yoder, 28, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor count of negligent homicide, said Steve Knowling, the prosecutor for Holmes County.
A judge sentenced Yoder to the maximum 180 days in the county jail — but suspended all but 30 days. Yoder will be on probation for three years and could go back to jail for the full term if he violates it.
Yoder was clearing a round out of his .50-caliber muzzle-loading rifle following a hunting trip when he fired into the air, authorities said. More than a mile away, Rachel Yoder was driving the buggy home from a Christmas party when she was struck by the round. The two are not related.
Marion Yoder initially was charged with felony reckless homicide.
‘‘The victim’s family did not want to proceed with this as a felony, and given the circumstances of the case I took that into consideration,’’ Knowling said. ‘‘I think it’s a fair resolution to the case and brings closure to both sides.’’
Marion Yoder apologized in court Tuesday and his father read a statement, Knowling said.
Rachel Yoder dropped off a friend before she was shot around 10 p.m. Dec. 15, about 3 miles from her home. Police said the horse carted her home and she fell out of the buggy. Her brother noticed the horse and buggy going in a circle and found the unresponsive teen on the ground. She died a day later.
Authorities first thought she might have fallen from the buggy and hit her head, but an autopsy report concluded she died of a gunshot wound to the head and ruled her death a homicide.
Yoder has to report to jail in Millersburg on Friday. Other terms of his probation include forfeiting the rifle and taking a hunter-safety course. His attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message left Wednesday.
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Related: Ohio man says hair cutting shamed his Amish father
16 Amish convicted of hate crimes for inflicting haircuts
Also see: More Close Shaves For Amish in Ohio
Someone who needs one:
"Ohio student punished for growing hair for charity" WJW-TV, October 25, 2012
CANTON, Ohio — An Ohio teenager who’s been growing his hair for a charity is being punished by his high school because administrators say his locks violate the dress code.
At least the kids get a good education when it comes to experience with the totalitarian forces of tyranny in today's schools.
Zachary Aufderheide, 17, is serving a two-day in-school suspension at Canton South High School this week.
He’s been growing out his hair for Locks of Love, which uses donated hair to make hairpieces for kids who have lost their own due to disease.
Aufderheide had told the school of his intentions, but on Monday was told he would be suspended. His hair is only an inch away from the 10 inches needed to donate.
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They are all good kids, aren't they?
"Teen leader of Ohio drug ring imprisoned" Associated Press, October 23, 2012
LEBANON, Ohio — A teenager convicted of selling up to $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to high school students in southwestern Ohio was sentenced Monday to serve six months to three years in a juvenile prison by a judge who called him ‘‘a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail.’’
Tyler Pagenstecher of Mason was taken into custody immediately after the hearing to be turned over to Ohio’s Department of Youth Services. The agency ultimately will decide how long the 18-year-old will be in prison, depending on his behavior.
‘‘He’s not going home today,’’ Judge Thomas Lipps said, explaining that the charges against Pagenstecher were too serious for him to avoid prison time.
Authorities say Pagenstecher was one of the most prolific drug dealers in the Cincinnati area, a ‘‘little czar’’ in charge of six teenage lieutenants who helped him sell the marijuana to well-to-do students at two high schools....
Lipps said he took into consideration the fact that Pagenstecher wasn’t violent, didn’t have weapons, was a good student, finished a drug-abuse program, and got a job at a restaurant....
While not advocating that teenagers smoke pot, isn't it time we got past the stigma connected with the shit?
Is destroying a kid's future worth it, especially when the current generation of leaders partied down when they were in school.
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Related: High on Ohio Post
I must be to be posting this shit.
"A former fugitive suspected of running a $100 million cross-country scam purporting to collect donations for Navy veterans has been identified as a Harvard-trained lawyer wanted on unrelated fraud charges since 1987, authorities said Monday. 65-year-old John Donald Cody’s true identity was uncovered through fingerprints in a 1969 military database separate from the national crime system."
That's worse than dealing drugs, isn't it?
"2 Ohio nurses get probation in malnutrition death" by AMANDA LEE MYERS | Associated Press, October 25, 2012
CINCINNATI — Two nurses were sentenced to probation Wednesday in the malnutrition death of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died, avoiding a sentence of up to 1½ years in prison.
Mary Kilby of Miamisburg and Kathryn Williams of Englewood were sentenced to up to five years’ probation in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas in Dayton stemming from the March 1, 2011, death of Makayla Norman.
Authorities say the teen had numerous bed sores and was living in filthy conditions when she died from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by cerebral palsy in what a coroner said at the time was the ‘‘worst malnourished child’’ his office had ever seen.
Kilby, 64, and Williams, 43, had pleaded no contest to charges of failing to provide for a functionally impaired child and could have faced up to 18 months in prison at their sentencing.
As part of Wednesday’s sentence, both women had to agree to surrender their nursing licenses and will no longer be allowed to practice in Ohio.
They both still face misdemeanor charges in a juvenile court that could carry prison time and have a status conference scheduled for Monday. The trial in that court has not yet been scheduled.
The nurses’ lawyers said that they had much less significant roles in Makayla’s death than the teen’s mother and another nurse.
Her mother, Angela Norman of Dayton, was sentenced to nine years in prison stemming from the death. The other nurse, Mollie Parsons, is set for trial Nov. 5.
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At the other extreme:
Ohio inmate says he's too fat to be executed
Ohio calls obesity no bar to execution
Kill 'em any way ya' can!
