http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ohio/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:13:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285741/posts IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- It's not what Amy Darby expected when she woke up Friday morning. She thought it was a string or a blade of grass--but then she noticed it start moving. "It looks like a piece of grass that's alive," Darby said outside her place of work Friday. Darby claims at 4:30 a.m., a brown worm came out of her kitchen faucet. She called the city's water department. Darby said she was referred to the health department. "It's beyond creepy," Darby said. "It looks like a tapeworm that would be inside of a human. And this is coming... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285741/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 03:13:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284690/posts SNIPPET: "A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources. The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is expected in the next few weeks. One law enforcement source told FOX News the grand jury already has handed up indictments against at least three people. Among those charged is a man from Minneapolis who went to war-torn Somalia and then, about four months ago, relocated to Seattle, according... FOX NEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284690/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:16:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284514/posts Politics: The former Stuart Smalley becomes the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the community organizers at Acorn and the little-known Secretary of State Project. Is the system being rigged?Politics: The former Stuart Smalley becomes the 60th Democrat in the U.S. Senate, thanks to the community organizers at Acorn and the little-known Secretary of State Project. Is the system being rigged? Incumbent Republican Norm Coleman conceded defeat in the mother of all recounts in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race after the state's Supreme Court unanimously rejected his lawsuit. Arguably, his seat may have been lost the day in 2006... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284514/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:26:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284177/posts CANTON, Ohio — The police chief of a northeast Ohio township has retired after a video became public showing him and a female office kissing and caressing in the front of a police cruiser while a prisoner was in the back seat. Timothy Escola retired Tuesday night after four years with the Perry Township police department about 50 miles south of Cleveland. Law Director Charles Hall says Escola's retirement closes an internal investigation. Hall says no charges are being considered against part-time officer Janine England, who was with Escola in the cruiser June 2. AP - Mercury news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284177/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283261/posts Wenzel Strategies survey shows Ohioans favor Strickland proposal for slots at Ohio horse tracks, but incumbent governor does not appear to profit politically from the idea Kasich leads incumbent Ted Strickland 44%-35%, with 21% undecided Portman leads Fisher 39%-33% in U.S. Senate race with 27% undecided Portman leads Jennifer Brunner 43%-31% with 26% undecided Wenzel Strategies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283261/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277790/posts This incredible three-quarter court flip shot by Brecksville-Broadview Heights Middle School's Aaron Shutway needs to be seen to be believed ... and even then I'm sure angry, bitter people will cry that the ball is computer generated. To which I say, easy there Michael Bay. It sure looks legit. But have a look and decide for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5epzcME5U-M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsports%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Fnba%2Fblog%2Fball%5Fdont%5Flie%2Fpost%2FVideo%2DOhio%2Deighth%2Dgrader%2Dhits%2Dridiculous%2Dbasket%3Furn%3Dnba%2C171894&feature=player_embedded Yahoo Sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277790/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:34:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276345/posts Notice how politicians love to punish recalcitrant voters who refuse to pass tax increases?From the Columbus Dispatch: Columbus police will be pulled from highways, high schools and other duties if voters reject a proposed city income-tax increase on Aug. 4, Chief Walter Distelzweig said yesterday. Nearly 300 officers would lose their jobs in layoffs. Can't get the taxpayer to hand over more money? Then scare it out of them!We'll cut the police force, crime will be rampant! Those brave, loyal firefighters will be out of a job, and your house will burn down. Like driving? City streets will be a... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276345/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:52:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273145/posts Local families are receiving threatening e-mails. Police say the messages are a scam. The e-mailer tells you that if you don't send money, you or a relative will be murdered. WCPO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273145/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:03:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272833/posts TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (FINK'-by-ner) says he stands by the citations handed out last week by the Division of Streets, Bridges and Harbor. He says the tickets were issued under a city law against parking on unpaved surfaces, including gravel driveways. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272833/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272573/posts Sunday, June 14, 2009. New Richmond, Ohio was the sight of the Flag Day Rally for Freedom, and gray sky and a late monsoon like downpour could not damper the spirit of about 500 people of like mind. Although I arrived late, along with muggs, I heard rousing, inspirational, informative speeches by Mike Wilson, organizer of Cincinnati Tea Party, and Tom Tabback, author of THINGS FORGOTTEN, and JOE THE PLUMBER. Cincinnati 912 Project was also represented. www.Cincinnati912Project.com. Photos coming timestax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272573/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:51:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269674/posts I just had to say that after watching her question Ken Lewis, BoA CEO in House hearings today. What a first class fool she is. Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269674/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:18:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269180/posts TV.com CBS Interactive, Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Main: 415-344-2000support@tv.comOn The Border Restaurants Brinker International 6820 LBJ Freeway Dallas, TX 75240 (972) 980-9917 Contact at: http://www.ontheborder.com/contact/contact.asp Phone:1-800-983-4637Best Western Best Western International, Inc. Customer Relations Department Telephone: 1-800-528-1238 Fax: 623-780-6199 Email: customerservice@bestwestern.com Regular Mail: PO Box 10203 Phoenix, AZ 85064 Attn: Customer ServiceIntel – Website contact page: http://www.intel.com/feedback.htm?iid=ftr+contact Corporate Mailing Address 2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054-1549 USA (408) 765-8080CBSports.com – Contact page: http://www.cbssports.com/help/contactus/usersspeak Headquarters 2200 West Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 Phone: (954) 351-2120JohnFreida.com – Contact page: http://www.johnfrieda.com/event.asp?action=entry&EventCode=jfcontact Consumer Relations Dept Kao... hill buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269180/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268024/posts WHIO Local News Man In Ladies' Swimsuit Harassing Women SUGARCREEK TWP., Ohio -- Women and children continue to witness a bizarre sight along the Little Miami River. A man wearing a women's swimsuit is harassing people -- mostly women and children -- as they paddle by in canoes along a stretch of the river in Sugarcreek Township. Since last Tuesday, the man has strutted his stuff to more than ten people, wearing a green or blue swimsuit and shouting to women as they cruised down the river in canoes. He runs away after the encounters -- police haven't caught up... WHIO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268024/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266608/posts Ohio has a political-identity crisis. Is it a “blue state,” as demonstrated by Democrats’ statewide wins in 2006 and 2008, or a “red state” that is just fed up with the behavior of its former Republican elected officials? “Well, it's more like an orange state,” said Bert Rockman, a political scientist from Purdue University. Ohio, Rockman explains, is mostly up for grabs: “Through gerrymandering – and, yes, both parties do it – Republicans had for some time a lock on the state legislature and, therefore, a lock on the state's congressional delegation.” That's changed some, precipitated by the misfortunes during... Townhall .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266608/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265181/posts Is a mosque in Ohio training terrorists? Or is it just a coincidence that three members of the mosque are now being held on various domestic terrorism charges... and that a fourth is alleged to have been the Little Rock gunman? Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265181/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265117/posts If you didn’t have the opportunity to make it to Westerville on Monday for John Kasich’s announcement that he’s running for Governor, we’ve posted highlights of the speech on the Ohio GOP YouTube page. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265117/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:49:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265095/posts COLUMBUS -- A $1 billion slash to state government, more funding for Ohio hospitals, a tiny increase in education spending for all school districts and an open door to oil and gas drilling in state parks highlighted the $53.6 billion state budget passed Wednesday by Senate Republicans. By a party-line vote of 20-11, Republicans pushed through a new state spending blueprint for 2010 and 2011. The budget next heads to a House-Senate conference committee, which is likely to begin meeting next week. "The bill before you protects taxpayers and puts children and seniors first," said Sen. John Carey, a southern... The Cleveland Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265095/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:15:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264282/posts LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- The "horrendous decision" that Daniel Wilson made 18 years ago came full circle this morning when he was executed for locking Carol Lutz in the trunk of her car and setting it on fire. Wilson, 39, died at 10:33 a.m. after receiving a lethal injection of drugs at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264282/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263749/posts “NCR makes ATMs,” Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher said Tuesday. “And to me this is equivalent to going to your ATM and finding out that your bank that you and your family have banked with for 125 years has, without even talking to you, transferred all your funds to another company.” The AJC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2263749/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262597/posts Former Ohio Republican Rep. John Kasich on Monday formally announced his 2010 campaign for the governorship, setting up a possible contest with Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland. Kasich disclosed his candidacy in his hometown of Westerville, a Columbus suburb that he represented in the House (1983-2001). His announcement was expected; Kasich last month formed a campaign committee to begin raising money for the governor's race. CQ Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262597/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 02:00:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262453/posts A local archeology curator said a turtle-head shaped boulder found near Oregonia is not a sculpture, as claimed by its finder. Dirk Morgan, owner of Morgan’s Canoe and Outdoor Center, said he believes his find is an effigy of a turtle that could date back to the Hopewell Indians who lived in the area more than 1,000 years ago. Bob Genheimer of the Cincinnati Museum Center viewed the 200-pound boulder at Morgan’s home on April 21 and said he found no evidence of shaping or manufacturing. “My strong opinion is that it is an artifact of nature, or an ‘ecofact,’”... Middletown Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262453/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:11:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262439/posts Pittsburgh native and former Ohio congressman John Kasich will be announcing his bid to take on Democratic Governor Ted Strickland for the Buckeye state's executive office in 2010. Look for the announcement to appear around the same time on his Web site Kasich hails from the McKees Rocks suburb of Pittsburgh that also gave Pennsylvania the late Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll and cable news junkies frequent appearances of Oxi-Clean spokesperson, Billy Mays (Hi, Billy Mays here!). A former nine-term congressman, presidential candidate and host of his own Fox News Show appropriately called "Heartland with John Kasich," Kasich, 57, filed... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262439/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:50:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260599/posts An Ohio man arrested for mowing unkempt grass at a public park says he just wanted to make his city look nice. John Hamilton said he took control of the situation because the grass in Sandusky's Central Park was about a foot high. The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260599/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259823/posts As it turns out, OMW hears that Media-Com Akron market sports daytimer (must sign off at sunset) WJMP/1520 Kent/Ravenna/Streetsboro/Parts-of-Stow/Akron-on-a-good day "Fox Sports Radio 1520" won't be changing sports radio network teams when Fox Sports Radio moves to Clear Channel sports WARF/1350 Akron "SportsRadio 1350" on June 8. It'll be changing format leagues, as it were. We've learned that instead of picking up the Sporting News Radio affiliation WARF is leaving behind, the "little brother" station of Media-Com's WNIR/100.1 "The Talk of Akron" will mimic its much bigger sibling and move to talk radio....but unlike WNIR, it will depend on a... Ohio Media Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259823/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 14:35:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259477/posts A new low-cost airline will begin serving mid-sized U.S. cities that it thinks larger carriers have left behind. Clearwater, Fla.-based JetAmerica said 34 nonstop passenger flights a week will start July 13 at Toledo, Ohio; South Bend, Ind.; Melbourne, Fla.; Newark, N.J.; Minneapolis and Lansing, Mich. Twenty-eight flights start or end at Newark Liberty International Airport. The carrier will add six more flights -- from Toledo to Minneapolis -- starting Aug. 14. JetAmerica is targeting small and midsize cities like Lansing, which has seen the number of daily flights at its Capital Region International Airport fall from 35 to 12... yahoo.news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259477/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 01:38:01 GMT