By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — The men and women who run Youngstown’s private prison said they are “very, very sorry” about last month’s escape of five murderers, but they still got quite a talking-to by Ohio legislators yesterday. “You are very fortunate that none of these men killed anybody, because […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 1 COLUMBUS — The state of Ohio has no easy way to shut the violence-riddled private prison in Youngstown, and local officials want to see it stay open, state officials said yesterday. “It is apparent that there is no legal action the state could pursue to immediately close […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur is asking politicians to do something that doesn’t come naturally to many – stop spending money, voluntarily. Miss Kaptur (D., Toledo), at a news conference here yesterday, introduced a voluntary pledge she is asking all statewide candidates to take, restricting the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 12 If you want to see a tractor pull, why not just go to your nearest farm and wait? Something will get pulled eventually. But if patience is not among your virtues, you would have done well to attend the Lucas County Fair yesterday afternoon. Dozens of tractors […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — The union that represents Ohio’s corrections workers is asking the state to ban new private prisons because of a Youngstown facility’s problems with violent and escaping inmates. Calling them “wasteful, dangerous experiments,” Ernie Conner of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association said private prisons lag […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 25 “There’s not a real good medical plan for a jazz musician.” So says Joan Russell, co-owner of Murphy’s Place, the downtown jazz club. But jazz has a long tradition of health care that doesn’t include HMOs or Medicare: the benefit jam for someone who is ailing. (Think […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 After a chase through a residential area, two Toledo police officers fired on a man who pointed a rifle at them yesterday in West Toledo, shooting him multiple times, police said. William Metcalf, 32, of Alma, Mich., who did not fire at the officers, was taken to […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Aloysius “Ollie” Szewczykowski, 87, a longtime leatherworker who loved playing and watching baseball, died Saturday at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. He was 87. The cause of death was liver disease, family members said. Mr. Szewczykowski was born and raised in Toledo’s old Polish neighborhood on the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 All there is to see are slowly moving cars, a few bushes, and endless rows of beans. But Dr. G. Michael Pratt can see the past. “Over there would have been the original line of Indians,” he says, pointing at a small thicket off in the distance. […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 The city of Toledo has put one of the Midwest’s most historically significant battlefields up for sale. Last week, the city asked developers to make offers for 434 acres in Maumee and Monclova Township. The southern third of that land is the site of the Battle of […]
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