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OhioStandard.com Thursday 11th March 2010 Issue 105/2010
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Wilson Duo Helps Cleveland Take Down White River
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TACOMA, Wash. -- Cheyenne Wilson scored 22 points and Whitney Wilson added 14 points and a game-high 18 rebounds to lead Cleveland to a 68-57 first-round win over White River...


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Columbus Considers Texting While Driving Ban
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Concerns over texting while driving is pushing lawmakers to take action as Columbus city leaders discuss a possible ban on texting while driving. The city could join others like...
Cleveland 68, White River 57
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (68) Scott 8, Jenkins 12, Wilson 22, Smith 6, Wilson 14, Trotter 2, Savini 4. Totals 24-53 18-25 68. WHITE RIVER (57) France 4, McCutchen 5, Sproul 29, Paulson...
Survey Shows Satisfaction Guaranteed In Dublin
Dubliners really love Dublin. City Manager Terry Foegler, during his state of the city speech Monday night at Dublin's Abbey Theater, released the results of a national survey that the city...
Trial Begins In Patient Sexual-assault Case
The 34-year-old woman said she couldn't believe it when a nurse anesthetist grabbed her breast twice shortly after she gave birth by Caesarean section. Then the nurse anesthetist at Mount Carmel...
Man Pleads Guilty In Stabbing Of Neighbor
A South Side man pleaded guilty today to voluntary manslaughter for stabbing a neighbor to death in July in a case of mistaken identity. Arlest M. Flowers, 42, admitted that he stabbed Larry Heard...
Man Gets Seven Years For Killing Deaf Pedestrian
A Columbus motorist who passed out at the wheel of a minivan was sent to prison today for seven years for killing a deaf pedestrian on the Hilltop. David M. Johnson, 30, formerly of Sofia Court of...
Osu Would Not Have Hired Killer Had Background Check Revealed His Criminal Past
An extensive background check on Nathaniel Brown would have revealed he'd lied on his job application about his criminal past. Under Ohio State University policy, that would have nixed his hiring...
Cincinnati Sends Defending Big East Champ Louisville Packing
Cincinnati's Deonta Vaughn, left, and Lance Stephenson celebrate after they dispatched Louisville, earning the Bearcats their second victory in Big East tournament...
Rebounding Pushes Cincinnati Past Louisville
NEW YORK(AP) Cincinnati has rebounded quite well in getting comfortable at the Big East tournament. The 11th-seeded Bearcats again used a huge advantage on the boards to beat sixth-seeded Louisville...
$1.2m Settlement Reached In Ohio Caged Children’s Case
TOLEDO, Ohio — Eleven adopted and foster children forced to sleep in cages by their adoptive parents have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Ohio county where they once...
Ohio High Court To Consider Case On City Gun Laws
COLUMBUS, Ohio The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a 2006 state law that lifted most local gun restrictions. Cleveland was among Ohio cities with an assault-weapons...
Bryant Fits The Stripes
Fits right into the specifications that built the Bengals’ 2009 AFC North champions. A corps of players who overcome problems on and off the field and eager to prove themselves to the people that...
Backseat Robber Worries Police In Toledo
— Detective said a serial robber in Toledo has hit five locations within the past week. The man gets into the back seat of an unlocked car and waits for his victims to return. He then pulls a...
Family Of Missing East Lake Man Wants Answers
— A northeast Ohio family hopes money is what gets someone to talk about what happened to their loved one. Eddie Vanatter went missing from East Lake in 2003, ONN's Cristin Severance reported...
Tribe Patient While Waiting On Branyan
He's in the trainer's room, for one. Branyan is still battling the back issues that cost him the final month of the 2009 season with the Mariners. Because of a herniated disc in his lower back, he...
Unflashy Leake Impressing In Reds Camp
It would appear to be pretty difficult to tiptoe through pro baseball infancy as the overall eighth pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, but that becomes quite easy for the Reds' No. 1 pick when...
Sizemore Leads Tribe In Nine-run Frame
Indians on the mound: David Huff, vying for the fifth starting spot, became the first Tribe pitcher this spring to work three innings, allowing a run on three hits with a walk. Kerry Wood worked a...
Cleveland: Man Who Put Daughter In Clothes Dryer To Be Sentenced
CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Joan Synenberg is set to sentence Steven McClairn at 1 p.m. Thursday for putting his 7-year-old daughter in a clothes dryer and turning it on to punish...
Ohio St: Check Found No Criminal Past On Shooter
This ID photo provided by Ohio State University shows Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them,...
Two Stabbed In Columbus Circle
Two high school students were hospitalized after being stabbed the in the Columbus Circle subway station this afternoon, authorities said. A fight involving students from nearby Independence HS broke...
Ohio Son, Father Win Naismith Prep Awards
Northland (21-0) is ranked No. 1 by USA Today. The younger Sullinger, who has signed to play at Ohio State next year, led the Vikings to the state title a year...
Check On Ohio State Gunman Found No Criminal Past
Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.The university on Wednesday released...
Bengals Stretch The Field
It has been reported as a $28 million deal and is thought to be significant enough for the Bengals that they are now going to have to take a second look at signing their own free agents, ranging from...
Health Officials Called In To Control Scabies Outbreak
— Public health officials were called in to help control scabies in the Johnstown-Monroe school district, 10TV's Tracy Townsend reported on Wednesday. The highly-contagious skin infection...
Trial Starts For Nurse Accused Of Molesting Patient
— The trial for a nurse accused of sexually molesting a patient hours after helping her deliver her baby started Wednesday. Nurse anesthetist Daniel Maldovan was accused of molesting a woman...
Lincoln, Leake Lead Way In Reds' Win
REDS 6, ANGELS 0 at Tempe, Ariz. Wednesday, March 10 Angels at the plate: The Angels didn't get their first hit until the third inning, when Brandon Wood laced a single off Arthur Rhodes. Mike...
University To Present Human Rights Award
The University of Dayton said Wednesday that it will present the Oscar Romero Human Rights Award to the conference's Migration and Refugee Services department on March...
Top Big Ten Teams Still Have Much To Prove
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Injuries to Ohio State's Evan Turner and Purdue's Robbie Hummel might have dimmed the Big Ten's chances of snagging a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament - not that the teams...
Ohio High Court To Consider Case On Cleveland, Cities' Gun Laws
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a 2006 state law that lifted most local gun restrictions. Cleveland was among Ohio cities with an assault-weapons bans...
Columbus Center Project Is Dead
A fter sinking $125 million into the controversial project over 13 unlucky years, the developers of Columbus Center will never break ground. California Urban Investment Partners, co-developer of...
Cleveland: Sheriff Deputy Pushed Down Stairs Pursuing Fugitive
CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department and Cleveland Police continue searching for the fugitive who pushed a deputy down a flight of stairs at the Justice Center Wednesday after...
Kroger Goes To Court Over Fuel Program Patent
Excentus Corp. , which has demanded the grocer obtain a license to expand its fuel rewards program to Shell stations. Excentus is an Irving, Texas-based company that holds the patents to the...
Opening Day Tickets To Go On Sale At Fountain Square
and McCormick & Schmick’s will sell 1,500 Opening Day tickets on Fountain Square, beginning at 9 a.m. on March 13. The sale will include 1,000 view-level seats, at $29 each, and 500...
Unemployment Bill Comes With Medicaid Aid
A federal bill extending unemployment benefits and providing other tax breaks also would bring about $750 million more in stimulus dollars to Ohio’s Medicaid program. The bill, H.R. 4213,...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of a 2006 state law that lifted most local gun restrictions. Cleveland was among Ohio cities with an...
Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past
This ID photo provided by Ohio State University shows Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them,...
Northland's Sullinger Named Naismith National Player Of Year
— Northland High School senior Jared Sullinger was named the 2010 Naismith National High School Boy's Basketball Player of the Year on Wednesday. His coach, and father, James "Satch"...
Ohio State Searching For Answers After Campus Shootings
— Investigators continued to search for clues Wednesday, in the home of a man who opened fire on Ohio State's campus, killing one co-worker and injuring another before taking his own life. ...
Blue Jackets Investigating U.S. Senate Candidate's Logo
— The Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team issued a brief statement on Wednesday after the organization learned a U.S. Senate candidate was using a logo on his Web site that resembled the team's...
Jury hears Kirkland confessions
Hilbert's goal was to get Kirkland to help solve three unsolved killings. Kirkland's goal was to avoid the confession.Hilbert won. A Hamilton County jury Wednesday heard the March 9, 2009, recorded...
LaPorta finding formula for success
Matt LaPorta's words dominate this "wall." LaPorta is not just one of the more promising young players on a developing Indians ballclub, he's a fountain of what Tribe players have begun to refer to...
Chrysler plant in Ohio on auction block
The Twinsburg stamping plant southeast of Cleveland was auctioned Wednesday in New York. Attorney Jeff Ellman says the winning bidder will be detailed in a filing in time for Thursday's hearing in...
Travel Solutions acquires Twin Horizons
of Dublin. Financial terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed, but the companies said Twin Horizons will operate as a division of Travel Solutions and continue to be independently managed. ...