Stories

2 weeks till election - What is different this time around?

6:11am Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Ohio is a "battleground" state. We are not only one of the important states, but in fact the most important state in the Union for this year's Presidential race. Both Republicans and Democrats are bringing in massive amounts of people and money to our state. There is a huge amount of information, and even more misinformation. So what? There are 80 million gun owner in the country. "Just" 4...

FOP: Police Call on Kerry to Stop Misrepresenting Their Support

5:55am Wednesday, October 20, 2004

October 14, 2004 US Newswire WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of...

OH Sportsmen for Bush rally to counter Kerry's latest photo op

5:44am Wednesday, October 20, 2004

COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Sportsmen For Bush Coalition has announced a press conference will be held (today) Wednesday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m. at th Austintown Sports Center in Youngstown. Former State Representative Democrat Michael Verich and Former Chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife Mike Budzik will be joined by several other Ohioans in making remarks on John Kerry’s upcoming duck hunting...

NRA: ''We've found no evidence that [Kerry] owns a hunting license.''

2:11pm Tuesday, October 19, 2004

URGENT! Like your grandfather's M1 Garand or Carbine? Like carrying your favorite semi-auto shotgun into the fields on a hunt? Like admiring collector guns like the Browning Auto-5? John Kerry wants to take your guns - period . There exists a bill, right now, in the U.S. Senate, which would go far beyond the anything the Clintons did to threaten your freedom. Click here to read the summary of S...

Toledo's gun control laws are a proven failure

9:11am Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 17, 2004 Toledo Blade Islands of danger, safety shape map of Toledo crime statistics The differences between Helen Weaver and Jackie Lothery are obvious. Helen, 79, is white and lives in a mobile home in suburban Northwood. Jackie, 51, is black and resides in a 19th century, wood-frame home in Toledo's central city. But the women do share something: the heightened prospect of being a...

Read more about Toledo's gun control laws are a proven failure
2098 reads

Politics, paranoia fuel war of words over guns

8:44am Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 18, 2004 Albany (NY) Times Union It was July 1998. Newspapers were full of stories about a seeming rash of shootings in schools. About 40 representatives of law enforcement, public health and other fields were summoned to Washington, D.C., to talk about ways to deal with gun violence in America. Alan Lizotte, a University at Albany criminologist, recalls with certain satisfaction the way...

Read more about Politics, paranoia fuel war of words over guns
1290 reads

Attacks raise concerns on OU campus

8:32am Tuesday, October 19, 2004

October 14, 2004 Athens News A string of sexual assaults on campus in the last month has raised concerns over the safety of students, particularly females, on the streets after dark. According to three separate crime reports posted in residence halls and other student areas by the Ohio University Police Department, all of the females involved in the incidents were able to flee the scenes...

Read more about Attacks raise concerns on OU campus
1614 reads

FBI: Ohio bank heists with violent component on the rise

7:43am Monday, October 18, 2004

October 17, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Robbery trend worries officials It’s not just the increase in bank robberies this year across central Ohio that has officials concerned. It’s how the heists are being carried out. There have been 95 robberies so far this year in and around Columbus, compared with 64 for the same period last year, according to the FBI. "Typically (80 percent) are nice and quiet...