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East Cleveland mayor says '82 stabbing was self-defense

10:38pm Monday, September 27, 2004

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Saturday that long before she entered political life, the new mayor of East Cleveland, Saratha Goggins, stabbed a boyfriend to death. Saratha Goggins told the newspaper on Thursday that she stabbed O’Neal Price, 48, to death in 1982. Her disclosure came after the paper obtained a certified copy of a coroner’s report that says she admitted stabbing Price during...

UPI: Kerry denies owning assault rifle

6:40pm Monday, September 27, 2004

It wasn't Kerry's fault when he fell on the ski slopes while snow boarding (he blamed the Secret Service, telling reporters "I don't fall down"). It wasn't Kerry's fault when he bounced an opening pitch to home plate, despite the fact that he threw from the bottom of the mound (he blamed the catcher [a National Guard soldier and Iraq war veteran], telling reporters "He was very nervous. I tried...

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Time is Running Out - Register to Vote!

4:50pm Monday, September 27, 2004

If you have not voted in the past four years, if you have moved, or if you need to register to vote for some other qualifying reason, please act quickly as you must register no later than 30 days prior to the election. From the Secretary of State's office website: Where may I register to vote? You may register to vote at the following locations. The office of the Secretary of State of Ohio, or...

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Letter to the Editor: Editorial just gun-control propaganda

8:16am Monday, September 27, 2004

September 26, 2004 Dayton Daily News Re "Bush gun pledge just weasel words," Sept. 10: The sunset clause on the assault weapons ban was put into the legislation for the simple reason that many rightly believed there was no need for it. Now that the 10 years has elapsed, I challenge the Dayton Daily News to provide evidence that there is a need to renew it. The editorial's hyperbole about "...

'Patient' robber calm & cool in ''no-guns'' banks

8:11am Monday, September 27, 2004

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that a 'patient' robber has quietly been robbing banks in northeast Ohio. The robber has hit the same Fifth-Third bank, inside a Tops supermarket, on two separate occasions within four weeks, advising tellers he has a gun. In an August 23 robbery, the 24-year-old female teller at the Fifth Third Bank was handed a note and the robber "stared at her as if he...

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Mad science: Gun-law demise worries ''health experts''

7:04am Sunday, September 26, 2004

Health experts are concerned that the demise of the assault weapons ban will result in more gunshot victims and increased trauma costs, CBS.MarketWatch.Com reported Sept. 22. Officials said that the ban helped to make injury prevention a national priority. But with the expiration of the ban, "we're going back to viewing this as a purely criminal-justice issue and not a public-health issue," said...

Op-Ed: John Kerry and assault weapons: Takes one to own one?

8:13am Saturday, September 25, 2004

September 22, 2004 The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) CHASTISING PRESIDENT BUSH for allowing the ban on assault weapons to lapse, Sen. Kerry charged in a speech on Sept. 10 that "America's streets will not be safe because of a choice George Bush is making" and that "in the al-Qaida manual on terror, they were telling people to go out and buy assault weapons, to come to America and buy...

''Mr. Hero'' robbed at knife point

7:44am Saturday, September 25, 2004

A Mr. Hero restaurant in Mentor is listed among the unsafe businesses in OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database . It is not yet known if this particular Mr. Hero was posted as well. September 25, 2004 The Akron Beacon Journal is reporting that a man attacked a manager of a Mr. Hero restaurant from behind and robbed the business at knifepoint Thursday night. According to the newspaper,...