Archive for January, 2010

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Real Estate Tips - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Approximately two weeks ago I wrote here about an ambiguity in the Form 22A. By way of quick background, it was unclear whether a buyer in waiving the financing contingency using Form 22AR was also waiving the appraisal provisions of Form 22A. Most

Recession has complicated tricky child-support issue - Courier-Journal
Even parents who have gone their separate ways often share the pain of the recession. Tracie Donahue’s first reaction to the news that her ex-husband lost his job as a stockbroker was to be thankful that her salary can support their three children

Candidates Push Deadline - Intelligencer
WHEELING - More candidate filings likely are “in the mail” as the deadline to file to run for office in West Virginia concluded at midnight Saturday. Expectations were that current state Sen. Mike Oliverio, D-Monongalia, would file to challenge

Hotcakes and hotly contested GOP primaries - Cincinnati.com
SHARONVILLE - Maybe it was the fact that Republicans are feeling good about their 2010 election prospects that brought nearly 400 party faithful to the convention center here Saturday morning, one of the largest crowds in the 11-year history of the

Changing Scene - Post-Star
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The law firm of Lemery Greisler LLC has announced the promotion of Seth D. Finkell to partner. Finkell’s practice focuses on business law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and domestic and international tax. Prior to joining

Mo. grandma accused of feeding blood thinner to 1-year-old to get baby - Minneapolis Star Tribune
31 emaciated horses rescued in Ohio; 6 others die South blanketed with ice, snow; mid-Atlantic next 3 Americans now held in Iran for half of a year Many obstacles to choosing a site for 9/11 trials US halts airlifts of Haiti patients, citing space

Treasurer bows out of commission race - Journal-News
HAMILTON Butler County s treasurer and front-runner in a contentious county commission race this year has backed out of her bid for the seat. Treasurer Nancy Nix made the announcement in a letter dated Jan. 28 sent to Butler County Republican

Settlement Near in Ohio Ex-sheriff’s Defamation Suit - Officer.com
Delaware County is close to settling a $10 million defamation lawsuit filed by former Sheriff Al Myers. At a meeting yesterday, the Board of Commissioners unanimously and without discussion adopted a resolution acknowledging that Myers “had acted

Famed film editor struck, killed by car in NYC - Fresno Bee
The California Highway Patrol says a woman who pulled over her car on a Southern California freeway to talk to a passenger has been struck and killed by a big rig. Officials say 26-year-old Blanca Aguirre was struck just after midnight Monday on the

Budgeting key to financial success - Canton Repository
Eight-year-old Zachary Edwards didn t have his own booth at the second annual Family Financial Fair at Timken High School on Saturday, but maybe he should have. Zachary, who attended the free event with his parents, Gen and Keith Edwards of

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Teen Held In 80-Year-Old Churchgoer’s Death - ClickOnDetroit.com
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Police have arrested a man in the death of an 80-year-old Ohio woman who was shot in the head in her church parking lot after Mass. Youngstown police Lt. Kevin Mercer says 18-year-old Jamar Houser was arrested Friday night on

Lex grad is on job with NBC at Olympics - Mansfield News Journal
Hire landed an internship with NBC’s “Today” in New York City, and there last winter. “It was incredible,” she said. “Everything you did wasn’t always glamorous, but just being in New York City and working on such a well-known show with such

Abortion backers bemoan prosecutor s failure to ask Roeder for names - Norwalk Reflector
WICHITA, Kan. (MCT) - Vicki Saporta listened as Scott Roeder talked about the friends he had who supported the killing of abortion doctors, as the district attorney cross-examined him Thursday afternoon. Wichita Eagle/MCT In this image taken from

Teen held in 80-year-old Ohio churchgoer’s death - WXYZ
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) Police have arrested a man in the death of an 80-year-old Ohio woman who was shot in the head in her church parking lot after Mass. Youngstown police Lt. Kevin Mercer says 18-year-old Jamar Houser was arrested Friday night

LEGISLATIVE ACTION BY ISSUE - Stateline
Corrections budgets were on the chopping block in at least 26 states as the recession forced lawmakers around the country to close prisons and lay off correctional officers, cut back on inmate rehabilitation programs and, in some cases, release

Anguished investors in Durham’s company watch, wait - Indianapolis Star
Dale Henthorn never worried about his retirement nest egg — $237,000 he had socked away during a lifetime of saving and entrusted to Fair Finance Co., run by Indianapolis businessman Timothy S. Durham. When he received his statements, he was happy

Arrest in Ohio Catholic church after-Mass slaying - Cleveland Plain Dealer
(AP) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Police have arrested a man in connection with the slaying of an 80-year-old Ohio woman killed during a robbery after a weekend Mass. Youngstown police Lt. Kevin Mercer said 18-year-old Jamar Houser was arrested Friday

Gov. Nixon, Democratic legislators target payday loan cycle - KYTV
Report: 35 percent of threatened payday lenders in Ark. escape regulation Legislators show little interest in new law on payday loans JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When Elliott Clark’s wife broke her ankle, she couldn’t work and his paycheck didn’t cover

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Lex graduate is on job with NBC at Olympics - Mansfield News Journal
Hire landed an internship with NBC’s “Today” in New York City, and there last winter. “It was incredible,” she said. “Everything you did wasn’t always glamorous, but just being in New York City and working on such a well-known show with such

Kasich, Strickland tally up donations - Columbus Dispatch
Gov. Ted Strickland enters his re-election year with more money on hand than any other governor in Ohio history, but Republican challenger John Kasich has narrowed the gap with an impressive haul of campaign cash in 2009. Despite getting a late start

Temp: 7 - Toledo Blade
We will take every action necessary to reverse this renegade order, which was entered in knowing defiance of long-settled legal rules. Fritz Byers, attorney for The Blade, said the newspaper’s stance is based on longstanding legal principles.

Payday loan cycle targeted by governor, Democrats - Jefferson City News Tribune Online
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When Elliott Clark’s wife broke her ankle, she couldn’t work and his paycheck didn’t cover the bills. So he got a payday loan for the house payment, then another to pay the gas bill, and another to keep the lights on. In five

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Administration Told: Change Terror Trial Site - Time
(WASHINGTON) A leading House Republican turned up the heat on the Obama administration Friday to cancel plans to put self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial later this year in New York City. Embracing a position that

NBA Capsules: Suns rally to beat Mavericks - Brownsville Herald
PHOENIX Phoenix Suns forward Louis Amundson found himself in an unfamiliar place during the fourth quarter Thursday night on the floor. Amundson and fellow reserves Goran Dragic and Jared Dudley led an unlikely comeback with 14 fourth-quarter

Couple arrested in health care fraud investigation - Zanesville Times Recorder
Barbara Elise Miller, 55, of Coshocton, and her husband, Dana Campbell, 50, were arrested Thursday morning and indicted on federal charges, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. Miller was charged with two counts of tampering, two counts

What’s in Salinger’s Safe? - ABC News
Copies of J.D. Salinger’s classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye” as well as his volume of short Copies of J.D. Salinger’s classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye” as well as his volume of short stories called “Nine Stories” are seen at the Orange

Obama administration urged to reverse decision to try 9/11 mastermind - Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - A leading House Republican turned up the heat on the Obama administration Friday to cancel plans to put self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial later this year in New York City. Embracing a position that New

Administration urged to change terror trial site - Reading Eagle
The Ohio Republican commented on ABC’s “Good Morning America” a day after Bloomberg appealed to Attorney General Eric Holder to reconsider the prosecutorial strategy. FILE - This Sept. 8, 2008 file aerial photo shows Governors Island in New York

Penske shooting survivors still recovering - Atlanta Journal Constitution
From left, father and son Mike Werner and Mikie Werner, 22, talk with the press about their son and brother Zachariah Werner. Werner said Zachariah is in critical but stable condition after the Penske shootings on Jan 12 and he is hopeful that his

Fairfax Search and Rescue Team Returns from Haiti - WAMU
Efforts to help the wounded and rebuild an entire country continue in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. But in Virginia, members of Fairfax County’s Urban Search and Rescue Team are back home after helping pull survivors from the rubble. Jonathan Wilson

County airport settlement avoids lawsuit - Journal-News
HAMILTON Butler County leaders avoided a legal dog fight about what company can provide services at the county airport by signing a settlement agreement Thursday, Jan. 28. The agreement brings a resolution to a suit and counter suit filed over

US attorney in NC files motion in Hennis case - The Sun News
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Prosecutors in North Carolina say a federal case that could stop the court-martial of a soldier charged with killing three people in Fayetteville 15 years ago should be dropped. The Fayetteville Observer reported that U.S

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

2 MSU football players plead guilty after fracas - Detroit Free Press
s season-ending banquet, witnesses said 15 to 20 men stormed into the potluck held at a campus dormitory by Iota Phi Theta, one of nine historically black fraternities and sororities at MSU. Witnesses told police that some of the men assaulted

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

LeBron James teams with McDonald’s - The Sun News
CLEVELAND — LeBron James is now shooting with a Golden Arch. The NBA superstar has agreed to a multiyear partnership with McDonald’s, adding the global fast-food giant to his list of corporate sponsors. McDonald’s Corp. reports results for its

Archive for September 2007 - The Spokesman-Review
If you read through the transcript of Sen. Larry Craig s Minnesota court hearing, one thing stands out: Judge Charles Porter doesn t appear to be buying Craig s attorneys arguments at all. That news was somewhat eclipsed on Wednesday by the

Lawsuit: Teacher tied boy’s hair in ponytails, encouraged students to - News-Democrat
CINCINNATI — A southwestern Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit accusing a sixth-grade teacher and a teacher’s aide of humiliating her son for his long hair by tying it into ponytails, making him stand in front of classrooms and encouraging students to

Bloomberg: try 9/11 mastermind somewhere else - New York Post
Bloomberg had previously called the decision to try the terrorists near the World Trade Center “fitting,” and last week blasted a CB 1 push to move the trial to Governors Island as “one of the dumbest ideas” he’s ever heard. Sen. Charles Schumer

Police: Trucker viewed porn before fatal crash - News-Democrat
BUFFALO, N.Y. — State police say a truck driver was watching pornographic movies on his laptop computer when his rig struck a disabled car on the New York State Thruway near Buffalo last month, killing the driver. Thomas Wallace of Brook Park, Ohio

Wife sues former Bush administration lawyer for $30M for alleged - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ohio Lottery winner received check day she died FBI: Pa. bank heist suspect ’sick of being poor’ John, Elizabeth Edwards separate after 30 years 3-year-old dials 911 when grandmother has seizure Marshals Service: Son of Las Vegas gunman arrested

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Lawsuit: Teacher tied boy’s hair in ponytails, encouraged student to - News-Democrat
CINCINNATI — A southwestern Ohio woman has filed a lawsuit accusing a sixth-grade teacher and a teacher’s aide of humiliating her son for his long hair by tying it into ponytails, making him stand in front of classrooms and encouraging students to

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Woman sentenced to a decade in prison faces drug agent on trial - Cleveland Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A mother of three sentenced to a decade in prison in 2006 for dealing drugs got her chance to testify Wednesday against the federal agent prosecutors now accuse of framing her. Geneva France, 27, denied ever taking part in a drug

Randy Orton Comments On Alleged Assault On Fan - 411mania.com
Hmmm, oh, and what about the dozens of cops at the restaurant that were there for crowd control since there were over 100 wrestling fans there? Not to mention the cop that escorted me to my freaking car. I’ll be happy when this is over.

Police:Trucker watching porn at time of NY crash - WTOL-TV
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - State police say a truck driver was watching pornography on his laptop when his rig struck a disabled car on the New York State Thruway last month, killing the driver. Thomas Wallace of Brook Park, Ohio, is charged with second

truesee’s Blog - Lottery Post
If you read the confessions of the Greeley couple dubbed the Bonnie and Clyde robbers, it could be a chapter of We’ll be home for Christmas. In court affidavits obtained Thursday, the couple Joseph Nieto and Christine Drummond

Phone-tampering case: Prank or political spying? - The Sun News
NEW ORLEANS — Was it an attempt at political espionage? Or just a third-rate prank? And was anyone else involved? In what some Democrats are calling the “Louisiana Watergate,” four young conservative activists - one of them a known political

Truck Driver Charged in Crash that Killed Snyder Mom - WGRZ TV
An Ohio truck driver has now been charged in the death of a Snyder mom in an accident along the Thruway in Pembroke last month. Julie Stratton’s car was disabled along the highway on December 12th after her car hit a deer. While waiting for help

Suit says Ohio teacher tied up boy s hair - MSNBC
CINCINNATI - A southwestern Ohio woman filed a lawsuit accusing a sixth-grade teacher and a teacher’s aide of humiliating her son for his long hair by tying it into ponytails, making him stand in front of classrooms and encouraging students to mock

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Durham yacht up for sale for $4.8 million - Ibj.com
Federal authorities are in the midst of an investigation into whether he operated one of his companies, Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co An attorney for Durham was not available this morning, and a sales agent for Moran could not be reached for

Miller Park sales-tax collections down 9.45% for 2009 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Collections totaled approximately $24.1 million, about $2.5 million less than what was collected in 2008. The 0.1% sales tax is collected in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee and Racine counties. “Our record setting drop in sales-tax

Trial begins for Ohio man in wife’s cyanide death - San Francisco Chronicle
Essa’s defense attorney emergency room doctor at Akron General Medical Center. He fled to Lebanon shortly after police seized drug bottles at his home. He gave up a long extradition fight and was returned from Cyprus to Ohio last year.

Judge Ardis: From coal town to court room - Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD — If life had turned out differently, Frank Ardis might have been a coal miner instead of a judge. This month, Gov. Ted Strickland appointed Ardis to replace Jeff Payton, who retired as Mansfield Municipal Court judge. Ardis completed his

Delaware County Prosecutor David Yost leaves Ohio attorney general - Cleveland Plain Dealer
As expected, Delaware County Prosecutor David Yost legislator Seth Morgan, a certified public accountant from Huber Heights who announced last week he’s seeking the auditor’s job. Both Morgan and Yost only jumped in the race after Mary Taylor

Finley to leave Milwaukee Public Museum - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“I now know what King Edward faced when he abdicated the throne to be with his wife,” Finley joked. He confirmed his upcoming resignation at a meeting of the County Board’s parks committee. British King Edward VIII gave up the throne in 1936 to marry

Southern Christian Leadership Conference Picketed by Members - New York Times
The Rev. Raleigh Trammell, chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is accused of diverting $569,000. The board members have been accused of diverting at least $569,000 from the group into privately controlled bank accounts

Yale lab tech pleads not guilty in student killing - Miami Herald
Clues point to inside job in Yale student’s slaying (AP) — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured

Nation & World briefs - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
SAN’A, Yemen — A Yemeni security official says 43 people, including foreigners, are being interrogated for links to the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. The official says some of the foreigners are studying Arabic and

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Cleveland Clinic can’t perform transplants for chimp victim - Canton Repository
An Ohio hospital has told the family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that she is not a candidate for a face and hand transplant. Charla Nash s family is looking into alternative facilities after the Cleveland

DAs feel state budget cuts, worry about possible layoffs - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In light of the state’s budget crunch, an unspecified number of assistant district attorneys face layoffs. Neither they nor their elected bosses know which counties could be affected or when. They do know the layoffs would hurt offices already

Trial begins for Ohio man in wife’s cyanide death - WBOC
CLEVELAND (AP) - A prosecutor on Monday portrayed a doctor charged in the cyanide-poisoning death of his wife as a womanizer trapped in a loveless marriage who fled the country when investigators closed in, while his defense attorney called him a

Murder trial of ex-NC-based Marine to be moved - Dispatch
Onslow County Superior Court Judge Charles Henry issued an order Monday, saying the trial of Cesar Laurean should be moved because pretrial publicity surrounding the case might influence jurors. Laurean’s attorney had requested a different venue, and

Teen Charged In Brother s Death To Plead Insanity - Greensburg Daily News
RISING SUN, Ind. (AP) Prosecutors say the attorney for a southern Indiana teenager accused of strangling his younger brother plans to use an insanity defense in his trial. Seventeen-year-old Andrew Conley did not appear in an Ohio County

Murder trial moving for ex-Marine accused of killing Dayton-area - Fox 19
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A former North Carolina-based Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague has been granted a change of venue for his murder trial. Onslow County Superior Court Judge Charles Henry issued an order Monday, saying the trial