By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 They won’t be meeting on just the field tomorrow. If tradition holds, Ohioans and Michiganders will be meeting under a flagpole on Airport Highway. Or in a parking lot in Monroe, armed with bumper stickers. Or maybe at the state line. For state troopers in both states, […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 18 A yearlong investigation into drug dealing at the GM Powertrain plant on Alexis Road culminated in an afternoon drug bust and six arrests yesterday. Nearly two dozen Toledo police officers converged on the facility at 4 p.m., then went inside with half a dozen drug-sniffing dogs to […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 20 Scott Kelly Hansen, the bank robber who escaped from federal custody Friday, had pleaded guilty to a string of bank robberies earlier this year. On Nov. 4, Hansen pleaded guilty to four heists, including three in northwest Ohio: one in Toledo, one in Findlay, and one in […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 CRANSTON, R.I. — A convicted bank robber from Toledo fooled prison authorities here into letting him go by giving them fake release papers he had printed on a prison computer, federal authorities said. Within five hours of walking out of prison, they said, Scott Kelly Hansen had […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 A raffle of Thanksgiving turkeys could pluck away a Toledo yacht club’s liquor license. State liquor-control agents raided the Riverview Yacht Club, 5981 Edgewater Dr., Saturday to shut down what they considered an illegal “feather party.” More than 200 club members attended the party, which featured raffles […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 1 COLUMBUS — The Ohio House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill aimed at telling swimmers when it’s not safe to go into the water at public beaches. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Linda Furney (D., Toledo), requires the state to post signs at all public beaches where […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 4 COLUMBUS — State Sen. Linda Furney (D., Toledo) will be running for the highest nonjudicial post a Democrat will hold in Ohio next year. Ms. Furney yesterday announced her intentions of running for Senate minority leader against the current leader, Sen. Ben Espy (D., Columbus). “I think […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 8 COLUMBUS — The low point for Ohio’s Democratic Party was supposed to be 1994. That’s when Republicans won the governor’s mansion, swept every statewide nonjudicial race, and wrested away a Senate seat held for decades by a popular Democrat. This year was supposed to be a step […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — Ohio’s next governor will be a woman. No, Bob Taft isn’t hiding something. But a quirk in inauguration scheduling means that Lt. Gov. Nancy Hollister will spend about a week in early January as the state’s chief executive. Here’s the situation: Governor Voinovich, newly elected […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 12 COLUMBUS — Voters rejected the only statewide issue on the ballot yesterday, deciding to allow continued hunting of mourning doves in Ohio. Supporters blamed the loss on a barrage of TV advertising. “Money speaks very loud, and when money wants to kill the gentlest of creatures, it […]