Lorain voters fund pothole patching with new tax
Lorain street crews led by Danny Wyatt with Tim Shinsky and Joseph Taylor patch a Hickory Hill Avenue pothole amid a citywide push after Issue 13. The 0.5 percent income tax hike of 5.3 million dollars annually funds road repairs and hires five workers, though parks duties have merged with street work after a decade of budget cuts.
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Street Department
Danny Wyatt
Tim Shinsky
Joseph Taylor
Hickory Hill Avenue
Shinsky
Taylor
Wyatt
Women rescued from Cleveland house speak of healing and privacy
Amanda Berry Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight released statements through an attorney thanking police and the community. The women now in their 20s and 30s disappeared between 2002 and 2004 and were held by Ariel Castro who faces kidnapping and rape charges with possible aggravated murder counts for alleged pregnancies. Castro is held on an $8 million bond.
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Cleveland House
Amanda Berry
Gina DeJesus
Michelle Knight
Berry
Patcher
DeJesus
Ariel Castro
Castro
Jail parking lot death by own action victim identified
Allan Joseph aged 62 with no address given died of a shotgun wound to the upper torso in the Lorain County Sheriff's Office parking lot. Coroner Dr Stephen Evans says the death appears to be self inflected and linked to despondency over a sick family member. Joseph was reportedly a friend of Sheriff Stammitti and left a death by own action note for Stammitti.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Dennis Cavanaugh
Sheriff's Office
Diplomat clears Clinton over Benghazi call controversy
Thomas Pickering defended the Accountability Review Board findings that security at the Benghazi outpost was inadequately managed but said decisions rested below Secretary Hillary Clinton. He refused to testify but offered to appear if asked, and prosecutors pressed for sworn depositions as lawmakers seek deeper inquiry into the 2012 attack that killed four Americans.
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Chris Stevens
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Mullen
Darrell Issa
R-Calif
Issa
White House
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