Archive for July 10th, 2008
Toledo police: father tried to kill self, daughter
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police in Toledo say an estranged husband tried to kill himself and the couple’s 3-year-old daughter by sending tailpipe exhaust gas into the passenger compartment of his sport utility vehicle. A man saw the hose contraption and called police.
Forty-six-year-old Thomas Bragg of […]
BREAKING NEWS — State rep. bows out of race
State Rep. Thomas Heydinger will not run for a full term in November.
Heydinger, D-Norwalk, was appointed in May to finish out the term of former state Rep. Matt Barrett, D-Amherst, who resigned after it was revealed pornographic images he accidentally displayed to a Norwalk High School class were his.
Barrett had originally blamed his teenage son […]
Ohio official mulls new voting machine rule
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s elections chief is reconsidering a plan to prohibit poll workers from taking voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election.
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans in February to scrap the practice known as “sleepovers” because of […]
Child born to Baby Grace’s mother to stay in foster care
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston family court judge ruled Wednesday that a baby boy born to a woman while she was in custody in the death of her 2-year-old daughter will remain in a Dallas foster home.
Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, gave birth to Shawn Trenor on June 26 at […]
Study shows Ohio car thieves target 1994 models
COLUMBUS (AP) — A new study shows Ohio car thieves favor older, American-made vehicles over newer models, echoing a nationwide trend.
The 1994 versions of the Dodge Caravan, Oldsmobile Cutlass and Buick Century led a list of the state’s most frequently stolen vehicles last year, in a study by the National Insurance […]
Reports: 11 injured by fireworks in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State officials say reports show Fourth of July fireworks injured 11 people this year in Ohio, including a man in Brown County who lost parts of both hands.
Spokesman Shane Cartmill with the State Fire Marshal’s office says while there were several injuries he describes as “scary and […]