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Grandma: ''If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue''

7:49am Wednesday, June 23, 2004

June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade Rita Dipman had seen enough, heard enough. When it started to happen to her on Sunday, she was ready. "If people don't fight back, it's gonna continue," she said. On Sunday afternoon, Ms. Dipman, 52, was eating at the Subway sandwich store on Main Street in East Toledo with her 3-year-old granddaughter when a man robbed the store. Seeing the commotion, Ms. Dipman...

Findlay police investigate paper carrier assaults

7:11am Wednesday, June 23, 2004

June 22, 2004 Toledo Blade FINDLAY - Police are investigating two incidents in which newspaper carriers were assaulted while doing their route. Thursday, a woman was assaulted and knocked to the ground while delivering papers in the 200 block of East Wallace Street about 5 a.m. Two days earlier, a young girl delivering papers in the 200 block of Lester Avenue was knocked to the ground by a man...

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Editorial: Leave guns out of parks

10:37pm Tuesday, June 22, 2004

June 22, 2004 Elyria Chronicle Telegram When the state's concealed carry law went into effect in April, the Elyria City Council voted unanimously to ban the carrying of guns onto city-owned property, including parks. Now the state Legislature is considering whether to pass a law that would support Council's decision. State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, D-Cleveland, is among those sponsoring a bill that...

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Troy Daily News latest to violate privacy of CHL-holders

by Chad D. Baus

12:01pm Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Editor's Note: Please keep the following position of the Ohio Attorney General's office, which can be found in a document entitled "Use of Personally Identifying Information" (.pdf) , in mind as you read the following story: In limited instances, a journalist may make a written request to a county sheriff to obtain a licensee’s name, date of birth, county and the type of license (standard or...

Public’s right to know vs. privacy is important battle for everyone

7:53am Tuesday, June 22, 2004

June 21, 2004 Columbus Dispatch by Lee Leonard You could stuff in a broom closet the number of folks who gave a hoot last week when Ohio’s newspapers complained about the lack of compliance with the public-records law. Who cares that half the time a secretary will stall or flatout refuse a request to see a school superintendent’s salary or the minutes of the last board meeting for a public agency...

Letter to the Editor: Breaking the law of concealed carry

7:48am Tuesday, June 22, 2004

June 20, 2004 Toledo Blade I read with interest stories about bureaucrats in Toledo, Clyde, Arcanum, and other cities passing ordinances or rules banning concealed carry, in spite of a firm statement by the Ohio attorney general that their acts are illegal under Section 9 of House Bill 12. Had the law-abiding citizens of Ohio acted as these city officials are, they would have begun to carry...

Disarmed at home: when landlords get political

11:17pm Monday, June 21, 2004

June 19, 2004 Dayton Daily News Man shot, robbed in parking lot HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County — Montgomery County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who robbed and shot a Piqua-area man outside an apartment complex Friday. The victim, 33, was with a female relative at Northland Village Apartments, 5216 Embassy Place. He was standing in the parking lot with another woman when a male...

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Toby Hoover recognizes benefits of concealed security

10:07pm Monday, June 21, 2004

In recent letter to the Lorain Morning Journal , gun ban extremist Toby Hoover, who fronts what often appears to be a one-woman show at the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, told the newspaper that Ohioans For Concealed Carry and others are ''promoting the false danger that to have your business weapon-free invites criminal activity.'' ''The reality is criminals have no way of knowing what...