By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 1 COLUMBUS — Massive decentralization of state government is “ridiculous on its face,” according to one co-chairman of Ohio’s legislative committee on the subject. And northwest Ohio will likely have to settle for only a few “surgical” shifts in state job location, the committee’s other co-chairman said. The […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 17 COLUMBUS — Kent B. McGough, a Lima, O., native and former state Republican Party chairman who helped the GOP gain some rare political victories in the wake of Watergate, died of a stroke Wednesday at Riverside Methodist Hospital here. He was 80. “He was very, very brilliant […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — Victims of domestic abuse would be able to hide their whereabouts from their abusers under a bill to be introduced in the Ohio Senate next week. The bill, which is sponsored by state Sen. Nancy Chiles Dix (R., Hebron), would create a false address on […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — State Auditor Jim Petro will run for re-election next year and not hold out for a coveted federal post, he announced yesterday. “There is a lot to be done in Ohio, and a lot still to be done in the auditor’s office,” Mr. Petro, a […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 1 COLUMBUS — The Valentine Theatre has cleared the last hurdle to put its renovation for bid, theater backers say. Attorneys for the Ohio Arts and Sports Facilities Commission yesterday reached an “agreement in principle” with Toledo Cultural Arts Center, Inc., on what its chairman called the final […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — A bill to be introduced in the Ohio Senate Tuesday would make illegal-drug dealers accountable for the damage done by the narcotics they sell. The Drug Dealer Liability Act, sponsored by state Sen. Bruce Johnson (R., Columbus), would allow anyone harmed by an individual’s drug […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 COLUMBUS — Murderer Wilford Berry wants to be the first man since 1963 to die in Ohio’s electric chair, and state attorneys told the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday his wish should be granted. Public defenders, however, said Berry, 35, is mentally ill and appeals on his behalf […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 The number of pit bulls owned illegally, and the dogfights in which they star, are on the rise in the Toledo area, Lucas County’s dog warden said. “It’s getting bigger and bigger,” Dog Warden Thomas Skeldon said. For the fourth year in a row, the number of […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 ARCHBOLD — Walter Crossgrove, a farmer who was proud to send all of his children to college after missing high school himself, died of cancer yesterday at his Schrock Drive home. He was 81. His parents were farmers in the Archbold area, and his hands were needed […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Defiance College will build a student union to replace the one damaged in a July 10 fire, the college’s board of trustees decided Saturday. The new union, which will cost $4 million, will replace the Enders Student Union and should be ready for use by fall 1999, […]