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Cheating Scandal in Ohio: &#39;We Got Weights in Fish!&#39;
Suspiciously Heavy Fish
Lead to Chaos at Tournament
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Oct 8, 2022 6:00 AM CDT

Suspiciously Heavy Fish Lead to Chaos at Tournament

Team disqualified in Ohio after their walleyes were found stuffed with weights, fillets

(Newser) - First the chess world was rocked by cheating allegations . Now, it's joined by the competitive fishing world. Video started making the rounds over the weekend promoting a "serious controversy" out of Ohio, in which a two-man team is now accused of stuffing their entries in a local tournament...

Suit: Raped Minors, Cancer Patients Denied Abortions in Ohio

Judge extends pause on 'heartbeat' law

(Newser) - A judge has extended a pause on Ohio's "heartbeat" law banning almost all abortions in the state. The law bans abortion after around five or six weeks—before many women know they're pregnant—and court filings in the case detailed its impact on women and girls in...

NFL Star Rolls His Porsche After Practice

All-Pro Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns is out of the hospital

(Newser) - Cleveland Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett was released from a hospital late Monday night after he was injured when he rolled over his Porsche while driving on a rural Ohio road following practice. Garrett suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the one-car wreck, per the AP . He'd been taken to...

Ohio Debates Are Off After Republicans Decide to Pass
Republicans Skip Ohio Debates
Sep 21, 2022 5:30 PM CDT

Republicans Skip Ohio Debates

Democratic candidates for Senate, governor accept invitations

(Newser) - An independent commission in Ohio canceled a pair of debates in the state's races for governor and US Senate on Wednesday because the Republican candidates declined to participate. The Ohio Debate Commission expressed disappointment that neither GOP Gov. Mike DeWine nor Republican Senate nominee JD Vance accepted their invitations—...

Self-Proclaimed 'African Prince' Fleeced Investors of $800K

Ohio's Daryl Robert Harrison, who called himself a 'prince' and 'prophet,' convicted of fraud

(Newser) - An Ohio man claiming to be a prince from Ghana conned more than a dozen people out of $800,000 before his scheme blew up. Daryl Robert Harrison, who posed as the "prince" or "prophet" Daryl R. Attipoe, was convicted Friday of mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to...

Prosecutor: Killers of 8 Wanted No Witnesses Left

Defense says defendant isn't like others in accused Ohio family

(Newser) - A custody dispute between two families that erupted into the massacre of eight people in rural southern Ohio started with a plan to kill just one of them, a young mother refusing to give up her daughter, a prosecutor said Monday. But months before the killings in 2016, the family...

After 12 Years of 'Heinous Evil,' Relief for CSI Actress

Man who stalked 'CSI: Miami' actress Eva LaRue sentenced to 3 years behind bars

(Newser) - For more than 12 years, Eva LaRue and her daughter were subjected to dozens of menacing letters and packages, with the sender threatening to rape, torture, and kill them. Now, "finally, we know where he is," the All My Children and CSI: Miami actor told NBC News on...

CDC Gives OK to Go to Wendy's Amid E. Coli Outbreak

6 states report illnesses, with most of those sick saying they ate Wendy's meals with romaine lettuce

(Newser) - An E. coli surge in four states has now made its way to an additional two states. The CDC reports that New York and Kentucky have joined the list of states affected by the outbreak, including Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the latter of which has seen 58 of the...

Police: Child Intentionally Left in Hot Car for 5 Hours

The 1-year-old died, and his father has been charged

(Newser) - A 1-year-old is dead after being left in a hot car in Ohio, and his father has been charged with his murder. CBS News reports Landon Parrot, 19, arrived at the Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital on Thursday with his unresponsive child. Police who arrived to question Parrot allege he gave...

Ex-Superintendent Allegedly Lured 2 Kids Into His Car

Police allege William Morrison offered to pay the children to babysit

(Newser) - As recently as 2017, William Morrison was an Ohio schools superintendent. On Thursday, he was arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap two children in Huntington, W. Va. The Columbus Dispatch reports the 59-year-old, who now lives in that city, allegedly pulled up to a 9-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl he...

Attempted Kidnapping of Girl, 6, Caught on Video

Home security camera captures her getting away from would-be abductor

(Newser) - A terrifying incident in Ohio was caught on a home security camera last Tuesday, when a man walking down a residential street in Hamilton allegedly tried to abduct a 6-year-old girl. The girl's mother, Mandie Miller-Nash, was putting groceries away and told her daughter she could throw some boxes...

Pharmacy Chains Ordered to Pay Ohio Counties $650M

They lost a landmark opioids case last year

(Newser) - A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that won a landmark lawsuit against national pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart, claiming the way they distributed opioids to customers caused severe harm to communities and created a public nuisance. US District Judge Dan...

Truth Social Posts Linked to Gunman at FBI Office

User with the name Ricky Shiffer issued 'call to arms' after Mar-a-Lago raid

(Newser) - The man fatally shot by police in Ohio Thursday after trying to breach the FBI's Cincinnati field office may have taken part in the Capitol attack, according to law enforcement sources. The sources, who identified the suspect to the AP and other outlets as 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, say he...

Shooting Suspect Caught After Multi-State Manhunt

Stephen Marlow accused of killing 4 people in Ohio

(Newser) - A man suspected of killing four people at two different homes in Ohio on Friday is in custody after a multi-state manhunt, reports CNN . Police in Lawrence, Kansas, arrested Stephen Marlow about 10pm Saturday, per WLWT . The 39-year-old is the primary suspect in the fatal shootings of 82-year-old Clyde Knox,...

Rhoden Family Massacre: The Allegations Are Stacking Up

Jake Wagner's brother is set to go on trial in late August

(Newser) - The 2016 murders of eight members of the Rhoden family sent shock waves through their rural southwest Ohio community. In late August, the first member of the Wagner family will go on trial for their deaths. In a lengthy piece for the Washington Post , Chris Graves writes that it's...

Man Pleads Not Guilty in Rape of Ohio Girl Who Had Abortion

The case attracted national news after it was revealed the child had the procedure in Indiana

(Newser) - Update: The man held in the rape of an Ohio girl who had an abortion at age 10 in Indiana pleaded not guilty Monday to two felony counts. Gershon Fuentes is being jailed in Franklin County without bond pending a hearing, which hasn't been scheduled, the AP reports. Conviction...

Indiana Doctor Has Faced Threats. So Has Her Daughter

Caitlin Bernard performed abortion on 10-year-old girl who had been raped

(Newser) - Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who recently performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio girl , has faced threats before—including one to kidnap her daughter reported by the FBI. The Indiana OB-GYN stopped going to a clinic in South Bend, 2½ hours away, to provide abortions after her daughter was threatened, the...

Ind. AG Gets Cease-and-Desist Letter From OB-GYN

Warning sent by attorney for Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who performed abortion on 10-year-old rape victim

(Newser) - The doctor at the center of a story about a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who had to travel to Indiana in order to get an abortion has sent the Indiana state attorney general a cease-and-desist letter, for remarks that the doctor's lawyer is calling defamatory. "Please immediately...

How a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Became &#39;a Political Pawn&#39;
Inside the Doubt Around Case
of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim
THE RUNDOWN
Jul 15, 2022 10:50 AM CDT

Inside the Doubt Around Case of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim

One pundit says to expect more one-source abortion stories, if any at all

(Newser) - There was plenty of scrutiny applied to the story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who needed to travel out of state for an abortion following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But now that it's been proven true , scrutiny is falling on those...

Jayland Walker's Autopsy Is Out, With One Key Number

25-year-old Black man from Ohio was shot, grazed 46 times in hail of police gunfire: medical examiner

(Newser) - Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in the Ohio city of Akron last month, was shot or grazed 46 times, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Friday by the Summit County medical examiner's office, per the AP . Akron police have acknowledged...

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