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Results of the US House HRS 5174 (Roll Call #528) BILL TITLE: To remove the uncertainty regarding the authority of the Department of Defense to permit buildings located on military installations and reserve component facilities to be used as polling places in Federal, State, and local elections. Roll call results HERE

Tiberi (R) will take John Kasich's seat and Traficant (D) will win his easily. From CNN scroll results.

CLINTON LENDS SUPPORT TO MARCH Saturday, May 13, 2000 By ROBERT J. VICKERS PLAIN DEALER POLITICS WRITER GREEN - On the eve of Mother’s Day weekend, President Clinton stopped in Northeast Ohio to lend his support to a grassroots gun-control rally expected to draw tens of thousands of women to the nation’s capital tomorrow. He also met with area corporate and labor leaders in hopes of garnering support for normalizing trade relations with China, which would open a freer exchange of goods and services with the United States. Speaking outside of an Ohio National Guard facility on the grounds of ...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A federal judge has ruled that the city of Cleveland may proceed with its lawsuit against the gun industry. The ruling was issued Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent, who rejected a gun-industry request to dismiss the lawsuit. James Dorr, an attorney representing the gun industry, said Friday that the defendants disagreed with the ruling but no decision had been made on a possible appeal. Last year, the city sued gun makers to force the industry to share the cost of police, ambulance and hospital services needed because of gun-related violence. The industry said ...

COLUMBUS-After agreeing to sweeten the bill to suit Democratic tastes, a 26-year plan to spend Ohio's $10.1 billion anti-smoking windfall won broad, bipartisan support yesterday in the GOP-run House. About half will go to fix or replace public school buildings, much of the rest to public health. REST OF ARTICLE HERE

COLUMBUS - With no votes to spare, the Senate approved a 12-year plan yesterday to spend $5 billion of Ohio's $10.1 billion tobacco-settlement windfall, with half the money going to repair or replace public school buildings. Rest of article HERE

Rapper Coolio pleaded guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 40 hours of community service. Coolio, 35, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey, Jr., also was placed on two years probation Wednesday by Superior Court Judge Andrew Kauffman in Torrance, Calif. Coolio has a 1994 conviction for carrying a concealed firearm.