COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s high court says people of “ordinary intelligence” should know loud when they hear loud. That was the essence of a unanimous Ohio Supreme Court ruling Wednesday. It upheld the constitutionality of Ohio’s disorderly conduct law against excessive noise. Jason Carrick of Wayne County challenged the statute as unconstitutionally vague after being [...]
By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Americans living and working in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city’s [...]
CADIZ (AP) — The Clark Gable Foundation in the actor’s Ohio hometown is launching a fundraising effort for a life-size bronze sculpture of the “Gone With the Wind” star sitting on a bench. The group on Monday announced it had launched the Clark Gable Legacy campaign on Kickstarter.com in an effort to raise $80,000 to [...]
LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) — Police say an inmate who apparently escaped from a jail facility in southeast Ohio put socks on his hands to protect himself as he climbed a barbed wire fence. Fairfield County Sheriff’s Lt. Tim Voris said Tuesday that prisoner Jeremiah Searles was discovered missing shortly before midnight after a headcount at [...]
By JACK GILLUM WASHINGTON (AP) — An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New “super” political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support. For two of the GOP front-runners, their supportive super PACs raised more money and have more cash left in the bank [...]
CANFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio elementary school says a missing Mickey Mouse spurred a brief lockdown while parents were visiting the school for Valentine’s Day parties. The Vindicator in Youngstown (http://bit.ly/wj00n5 ) reports a parent dressed up as Mickey Mouse to surprise a class but failed to tell the principal at C.H. Campbell [...]
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — Police allege a northeast Ohio man ate at a fast food restaurant, walked across the street to buy a sledgehammer and then returned to the restaurant to smash some of its windows. Cuyahoga Falls Police Captain Jack Davis tells radio station WTAM that a 45-year-old area resident ate at a [...]
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man is accused of stealing cremation urns, dumping remains and taking the urns to sell at a scrap yard in the Cincinnati area, where city officials have pushed tough new restrictions on scrap metal sales aimed at curbing theft. Cincinnati Cremation Co. owner Don Catchen told The Cincinnati Enquirer that [...]
