You are finally on your own, readers:
"Wife and husband die 15 hours apart
NASHPORT — A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage died 15 hours apart. Helen Felumlee died at age 92 on April 12. Her husband, Kenneth, 91, died the next morning. The couple’s eight children say the two had been inseparable since meeting as teenagers (AP)."
"Dad who fired into air, killing girl, gets 6 years" Associated Press April 03, 2014
CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati man pleaded guilty to the accidental shooting death of his 11-year-old daughter during a drunken fight with the girl’s mother and was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.
Prosecutors say Deandre Kelley, 34, was drunk on Jan. 12 when he fought with his longtime girlfriend outside their home and fired two gunshots into the air. One bullet fatally hit their daughter, Shanti Lanza, who had been hiding in an upstairs bedroom as the fight unfolded during a slumber party.
In an emotional hearing in Hamilton County court that saw the girl’s mother and aunt arrested for contempt of court, Kelley pleaded guilty to one count of reckless homicide. In exchange, prosecutors dropped other charges.
Kelley’s attorney said that after talking the case over with Judge Nadine Allen, his client realized that a six-year sentence was the best deal he was going to get.
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"Man told to pay for fake distress call" Associated Press April 23, 2014
CINCINNATI — An Ohio man who was 19 when he made a false distress call that triggered a massive, 21-hour search on Lake Erie must pay $489,000 in restitution to the US and Canadian agencies involved in the needless rescue effort, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati found that a lower court properly ordered 21-year-old Danik Kumar of Sandusky to pay for all costs associated with the March 2012 search, launched after he reported seeing a fishing boat with four people on board sending up flares on Lake Erie as he was flying a small plane overhead.
The US Coast Guard and the Canadian Coast Guard used three boats, a helicopter, and a small plane before calling off the search.
Kumar told investigators a month later that though he thought he saw a single flare go up, he never saw a boat, according to court records.
Kumar said he continued reporting a boat in distress for fear of sounding stupid and ruining his chances of becoming a Coast Guard aviator, court records say.
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What I find interesting there is if the situation is reversed and the state somehow abused a citizen, the taxpayers must collectively make things right. Why aren't the corrupt government pukes responsible for it?
"Man gets 35 years for 9 fire deaths in Ohio" Associated Press June 21, 2014
CLEVELAND — A man twice convicted of killing a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover in Cleveland’s deadliest house fire was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison.
Antun Lewis, 30, had asked the judge for mercy and expressed condolences to the families of the victims, some of whom he knew. He said someone committed the crime ‘‘but it’s a lie that person was me.’’
Lewis was deemed ineligible for the death penalty because of a mental disability. His attorneys presented evidence he has an IQ of 70 or less.
Authorities said Lewis, upset over a drug debt, doused the three-story building’s first floor with gasoline.
Lewis said he was at home, several blocks away, when the fire started. He and his attorneys have said there was no drug debt and he has twice passed polygraph tests that show he is telling the truth.
If it is good enough for Maury....
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They do get it wrong sometimes.
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Also see:
Overturned in Ohio
Lonardo Says Lewis is Innocent
Why let facts get in the way when you can burn someone at the stake?
"Teen’s body was in bag, police say" Associated Press July 03, 2014
CLEVELAND — An Ohio man charged with killing a teenage girl stuffed her body in a playpen bag and carried it past her mother — even offering the woman a chance to ‘‘buy a baby thing’’ — before disposing of the remains in the trash, police said.
Ricki D. Williams IV, 18, of Youngstown, was held without bond after a court hearing Wednesday in the June 23 death of 16-year-old Gina Burger. Investigators said he confessed to killing the girl, whose body was found in a Pennsylvania landfill two days later.
Burger was stabbed inside an apartment at a complex in the Youngstown suburb of Austintown where she lived with her mother, police said. Another woman helped Williams dispose of the body under threat of death, according to police....
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"Priest convicted of killing nun dies in prison" Associated Press July 05, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun a day before Easter 1980 died Friday at a Columbus prison hospice unit, a day after a federal judge refused his request to be released to family care.
Attorney Richard Kerger said the Rev. Gerald Robinson’s sister-in-law told him the priest died Friday morning.
Robinson, 76, had been serving a sentence of 15 years to life in what church historians have characterized as the only documented case of a Catholic priest killing a nun.
He had been in a hospice unit since the end of May after suffering a heart attack. A federal judge Thursday refused to release him to relatives, concluding that the court didn’t have jurisdiction to grant such compassionate release.
Robinson was arrested 24 years after the nun’s death and was found guilty in 2006 of stabbing and strangling Sister Margaret Ann Pahl at a Toledo hospital where they worked.
Robinson and Pahl had worked closely together at the hospital, where he was a chaplain and she was caretaker of the chapel. He presided at her funeral Mass.
The 71-year-old nun was killed while preparing the chapel for Easter services in 1980. She was choked and then stabbed 31 times.
Police arrested him in 2004 after investigators reopened the murder case. Investigators said blood stains on an altar cloth seemed to match the patterns of a letter opener found in Robinson’s apartment.
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"Ohio woman sues after diagnosis release" Associated Press June 07, 2014
CINCINNATI — An Ohio woman whose medical record was posted to Facebook, revealing her name and a syphilis diagnosis, has sued the hospital where she was treated and the worker who accessed her information.
The 20-year-old Cincinnati woman, who filed the lawsuit this week in Hamilton County court, said that the events of the case were set in motion in September, when she refused to tell her former boyfriend why she was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Her former boyfriend, identified as Raphael Bradley, 28, then contacted another woman he was romantically involved with who worked at the hospital, according to the suit.
That woman, identified as Ryan Rawls, looked up the woman’s medical record and gave it to Bradley, according to the lawsuit.
It was then posted on a Facebook page, the lawsuit said.
“It couldn’t be more egregious in my estimation, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center owes a duty to their patients to ensure this doesn’t happen,” said Mike Allen, the Cincinnati attorney who is representing the woman who filed the lawsuit.
Lee Ann Liska, president and chief executive officer of the hospital, said in a statement that the unauthorized access or sharing of medical records is “cause for immediate termination.”
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Sorry I didn't open those.
UPDATE: Ohio woman critical after rock dropped on car
