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Ohio Court Sets 2022 Execution Date for Cleveland Killer
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The Ohio Supreme Court has set a 2022 execution date for a man sentenced to die for fatally shooting a man in an argument over a sewing machine. Death row inmate Percy Hutton of Cleveland was sentenced to die for the 1985 slaying of Derek Mitchell. Hutton’s attorney, Michael Benza, argues… Read More
Disease Found In Dead Deer In 8 West Virginia Counties
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Deer in eight West Virginia counties have died from a disease that causes extensive bleeding. The state Division of Natural Resources says in a news release that Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease was confirmed in the deer found in Boone, Brooke, Hancock, Lincoln, Marshall, Ohio, Tucker and Wayne counties. The disease has… Read More
Jobless Rates Increase In 85 Kentucky Counties
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky officials say unemployment rates rose in 85 of the state’s 120 counties between August 2016 and August 2017. Jobless rates fell in 32 other Kentucky counties and stayed the same in three. The Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics says Woodford County had the state’s lowest jobless rate at… Read More
Tuskegee Airman Among Vets Backing Ohio Drug Price Measure
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen is joining other military veterans in supporting a fall ballot measure in Ohio that would bar state agencies from buying drugs at prices higher than those paid by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Don Elder attended a Statehouse news conference Thursday organized by the… Read More
Ohio Veterans Hall Of Fame To Induct Its Class Of 2017
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame will induct its Class of 2017 class in November. Officials with the Ohio Department of Veterans Services say the 20 newest members will be inducted in a public ceremony in the Columbus suburb of Dublin on Nov. 9. The hall was established in 1992 to… Read More
Sessions Returns to West Virginia to Discuss Opioid Crisis
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has returned to West Virginia for the second time in four months to discuss efforts to stop the nation’s opioid epidemic. At an event Thursday in Charleston, Sessions said it’s wrong to assume that drug abuse is a private choice or matter. He says it reduces… Read More
Kentucky Lawmakers Told Opioid Crisis ‘A Public Health Catastrophe’
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) – Kentucky’s opioid addiction crisis was the focus of a daylong meeting by state lawmakers. The Courier-Journal reports the joint House-Senate Health and Welfare Committee heard from experts on heroin and prescription pill abuse engulfing many communities. Van Ingram, executive director of the state office of drug control policy, told lawmakers Wednesday… Read More
2 Eastern Kentucky Health Care Providers To Merge
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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (AP) – Two health care providers in eastern Kentucky have announced plans to merge. WYMT-TV cited a statement from Appalachian Regional Healthcare and Highlands Health System in reporting the merger, which officials say they hope to finalize by early next year. Highlands Health System President Harold C. Warman said the merger would ensure… Read More
Kentucky County Joins Lawsuit Targeting Opioid Distributors
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HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) – A Kentucky county is joining a multi-county, multi-state effort to sue opioid distributors to recoup costs associated with the drug epidemic. The Henderson County Fiscal Court voted unanimously Tuesday pursue litigation, after a presentation by attorney Jeff Gaddy of Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty and Proctor, P.A., one of the firms… Read More
Ohio Increases Fine To $2.3M Against Pipeline Developer
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s environmental agency has more than doubled the fines against a company building a natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Michigan. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says the fines against Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners stemming from water and air pollution violations are now at $2.3 million. The head of the… Read More
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