Ohio Politics

Columbus Dispatch: 2 women injured in home invasion

11:20am Saturday, September 20, 2003
September 17, 2003 When frantic screams rippled through her quiet Pataskala home, Sharon Gibson feared her mother had fallen and hurt herself. Her concern quickly turned to horror when she found her 81-year-old mother lying on the floor, struggling with an intruder. "I went out my bedroom door and saw him dragging her by the hair," Gibson said. "When he saw me come out, he grabbed me and threw me...

Cincinnati: Police arrest three in connection with multiple carjackings/murders

10:44am Saturday, September 20, 2003
Three men who Lincoln Heights police say killed two people IN THEIR CARS , and committed a host of other crimes, were arrested Tuesday. Their accomplice, however, is still at large. Henry Woods, 26, and brothers Jermaine Lowery, 24, and Randall Lowry, 24 were indicted on murder, robbery and arson charges. They were tracked down in Chattanooga, Tenn., because they were acting suspiciously and were...

Ohio's cities under seige; Senate leaders under cover

3:07pm Thursday, September 18, 2003
Cleveland Plain Dealer 09/18/03 Two Cleveland brothers who went on a springtime armed-robbery spree also robbed the city of a business, a visitor and its quality of life, their victims said yesterday. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Boyko agreed, and meted out unusually long sentences to Deshaun and Terry Scott: 20 years for 19-year-old Deshaun, and 27 for Terry, who is 21. They...

Letter to the Editor: Officers distracted by wrong kind of offenses

11:58am Thursday, September 18, 2003
September 12, 2003 Columbus Dispatch I congratulate the Columbus Division of Police for its vigilant pursuit of people with open containers at the Ohio State football game Aug. 30. The police issued more than 50 tickets for open-container violations at the game. By the way, at that same time, a worker at a Wendy’s restaurant was shot to death. It is too bad the shooter didn’t have an open...

Ohio's Chief Justice Moyer signals he will seek 4th term

12:38pm Wednesday, September 17, 2003
09/13/03 Cleveland Plain Dealer Columbus - Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer gave his first clear public signal yesterday that he intends to run for a fourth six-year term as the court's leader. A screening committee for the Ohio Republican Party interviewed Moyer and incumbent Justices Paul Pfeifer and Terrence O'Donnell. The terms of Moyer and Pfeifer expire next year. O'Donnell...

Letter to the Editor: Investigation into police call is warranted

7:58pm Monday, September 15, 2003
Toledo Blade September 10, 2003 The fact that it took Toledo Police 20 minutes to arrive at the scene of the stabbing death of 4-year-old Skylar Burnard and the stabbing of two-month-old Gavin Harmon, allegedly by their mother’s live-in boyfriend, is reprehensible. I challenge The Blade to hold Chief Mike Navarre’s feet to the fire on this horrific crime. An outside investigation of the events...

Columbus Dispatch: Mom seeks answers in son’s death

12:35pm Thursday, September 11, 2003
Saturday, September 06, 2003 Police investigating savage thrashing of 36-year-old man in Northland area As her only son lay in a hospital bed, Pamela A. Smith shuddered as she thought of the brutality he had faced. "The blows to the head. The irreversible brain damage. It’s beyond me how they could do that. "Someone, somewhere saw something," she said. "They had to. I just pray that God touches...

Columbus Dispatch: City could top 100 homicides

12:17pm Thursday, September 11, 2003
September 08, 2003 Police seeking explanations for violent year With nearly four months of 2003 remaining, Columbus has already surpassed the number of homicides it recorded in 2002 Columbus police say they have no explanation for the increase in homicides this year. It’s not the worst year: The city had 139 in 1991, many of which police connected to drug gangs. But the last time Columbus hit 100...

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